- Preface
- Introduction
- Use of this book
- The way the mind works
- Difference between lateral and vertical thinking
- Attitudes towards lateral thinking
- Basic nature of lateral thinking
- The use of lateral thinking
- Techniques
- The generation of alternatives
- Challenging assumptions
- Innovation
- Suspended judgement
- Design
- Dominant ideas and crucial factors
- Fractionation
- The reversal method
- Brainstorming
- Analogies
- Choice of entry point and attention area
- Random stimulation
- Concepts/divisions/polarization
- The new word po
- Blocked by openness
- Description/problem solving/design
- Summary
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