Paul Sloane

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Paul Sloane is an author and speaker on lateral thinking and innovation. He was born in 1950 in Johnstone, Scotland and was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Engineering. He is the leading author of books of lateral thinking puzzles, many of the books are co-authored with Des MacHale. He worked for 11 years for IBM became MD for Ashton-Tate and VP International for Mathsoft.

[edit] Selected publications

• Lateral Thinking Puzzlers (Sterling, 1991), ISBN 0-8069-8226-8
• Test your Lateral Thinking IQ (Sterling, 1994), ISBN 0-8069-0684-7
• Intriguing Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Sterling, 1996), ISBN 0-8069-4252-5
• The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills (Kogan-Page, 2006), ISBN 0-7494-4797-4
• The Innovative Leader (Kogan-Page, 2007), ISBN 0-7494-5001-0

[edit] External links

• Paul Sloane web site
• Lateral Puzzles Forum
• Paul Sloane blog
• Author page on Librarything.com