Paul Sloane (author)

Paul Sloane is an author and a corporate public speaker on innovation. He was educated at St Mary's Catholic Academy Blackpool and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He worked for IBM before joining Ashton-Tate in 1984 as UK Marketing Director. He went on to become UK Managing Director and Acting Joint European Managing Director.[1] In 1994 he became VP International for Mathsoft.[2] In 2001 he was appointed CEO of Monactive Ltd, a software tools company.[3] He is the author of over 20 books of lateral thinking puzzles published by Sterling Publishing.[4] His business books are published by Kogan Page and Pearson plc. He has been a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, Lancaster University, Henley Business School[5] and the Mumbai Institute of Technology. He speaks on lateral thinking and the leadership of innovation. [6] He has given two Tedx talks; 'Are You Open Minded?' at the University of Brighton, UK in 2016 [7] and 'Les avantages d'être scandaleux.' at the University of La Salle, Beauvais, France in March 2020.[8]. He is the nephew of Dom Ninian Sloane and brother of Nick Sloane (athlete). He is a keen chess player, with a peak FIDE rating of 2125 [9], and represented Cambridge University. He is a member of the Catenian Association.

Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge
OccupationTrainer, Author
Websitehttp://www.destination-innovation.com

Selected publications
  • Lateral Thinking Puzzlers (Sterling Publishing), ISBN 0-8069-8226-8
  • Test your Lateral Thinking IQ (Sterling Publishing), ISBN 0-8069-0684-7
  • Intriguing Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Sterling Publishing), ISBN 0-8069-4252-5
  • The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills (Kogan Page), ISBN 0-7494-4797-4
  • The Innovative Leader (Kogan Page), ISBN 0-7494-5001-0
  • How to be a Brilliant Thinker (Kogan Page), ISBN 978-0-7494-5506-4
  • A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing (Kogan Page), ISBN 978-0-7494-6307-6
  • Mathematical Lateral Thinking Puzzles co-author Des MacHale (Sterling Publishing), ISBN 978-1-4549-1167-8
  • Think Like an Innovator (Pearson PLC), ISBN 978-1-2921-4223-4
  • Sloane, Paul. "Medicine can Teach Business and Government a Lesson in Innovation". Innovation Management. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  • Sloane, Paul. "City A.M. The Frustration of Innovation; Lessons from History". City A.M. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
  • Sloane, Paul. "Inside a Corporate Innovation Camp". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
  • Sloane, Paul. "Eleven Reasons for the UK's Poor Productivity". Huffington Post UK. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
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gollark: Ah, no, DemoVirus actually just downloads the latest copy from pastebin and makes taht startup.
gollark: `fs.copy(shell.getRunningProgram(), "startup")` roughly.

References
  1. Ashton-Tate Press Release 15 Feb 1990
  2. MathSoft acquires Statsci Europe 7 July 1998.
  3. Computer Weekly article Feb 2002.
  4. List of Classic Lateral Thinking Puzzles.
  5. Creative Leadership Workshop
  6. Video from the Future of Technology Conference for The Advanced Propulsion Centre, Nov 2018.
  7. Tedx Talk, Brighton, Feb 2016
  8. Tedx Talk, Beauvais, 2020
  9. ECF Grading Database, 2020
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