PAUL SLOANE

When it comes to innovation and great ideas quantity is key. You have to kiss a lot of frogs to get one prince.

Many candidates take a passive role at the interview. They competently answer the questions that are put to them but they never take the initiative by asking intelligent questions that steer the interview in a helpful direction.

If you take a number of deliberate steps then you can significantly increase your chances of being promoted up the corporate ladder.

What is that is stopping you right now from making a much greater contribution to society? What is it that is preventing you from fulfilling your potential?

We live in a world with information overload. But people want more than facts. They want understanding. They want meaning. They want context. They want stories.

Most organisations have natural defence mechanisms against disruptive or threatening ideas. It is difficult to change the culture to one where such ideas are heard. The 'Who killed our business?' exercise is a good way to start.

You have to make the current model work better and at the same time find ways to replace it with something better. Continuous innovation is very demanding - but it is the best way to survive.

Many authors think that marketing is a job for the publisher so they sit back and wait for the royalties to roll in. Here are a number of things that the author can do that will help sales.

Persuasive debaters can win arguments using the force of their reason and by the skillful deployment of many handy techniques. Here are some general dos and don't s to help you win arguments together with some sneaky tactics to be aware of.

How to make your idea sessions succeed or fail.

Sometimes the biggest resistance to innovation comes from the person who should benefit most from it - the customer. Customers can be very conservative. Here is how to help them welcome change.

A lateral thinking technique to help your creativity.

How can you generate innovations for your business? One fruitful technique is to look for weird combinations.

Ten Great Ways to boost your Personal Creativity

Lateral Thinking Puzzles are great fun and they teach techniques for questioning, testing assumptions, using your imagination and piecing together clues.

Selecting the right sales person is one of the most important jobs the Sales VP has. Advice on how to interview prospective sales people.

The best games for thinking people - including chess, bridge, monopoly and charades.

The innovative leader encourages a culture of experimentation. This means allowing failure as well as success.

Six great ways to energise your pitch and avoid boring your audience.

Some of the common ways of deterring creativity and impeding innovation.

Tips for how to be good at conversations.