
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
Tim Hurson(Autor*in)
McGraw-Hill Education (Verlag)
Erschienen am 6. November 2017
Buch
Softcover
320 Seiten
978-1-260-10840-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Success isn't about what you know. It's about how you think.
Building a great career and an enriching life isn't rocket science. It's about understanding more clearly, thinking more creatively, and planning more effectively. This guide to productive thinking will help you do exactly that.
Whether you need to solve business problems, create new opportunities, or improve your personal life, Think Better offers the principles and tools you need. Author Tim Hurson takes you through the critical steps you need to:
* Commit to Change: Discover how what's working often blinds us to what's possible. Recognize that every frustration is an opportunity in disguise. Imagine a future of creative possibilities.
* Integrate the Principles of Productive Thinking: Don't just think outside the box. Recognize that for productive thinkers there is no box. Unlock the creative ideas in the "third third" of your consciousness-ideas that are always there, but often hovering just out of reach.
* Take Active Steps to Focus on and Solve Problems: Use the thinking tools in this book to make the unexpected connections that are at the heart of all creative ideas and implementable solutions.
It's a myth that people are either born productive thinkers or not. Productive thinking is a skill that can be taught, learned, practiced, and mastered-by anyone.
Thinking better leads to doing better, and ultimately to being better-in business and in life. With productive thinking, you can take on challenges in ways you never dreamed possible.
Building a great career and an enriching life isn't rocket science. It's about understanding more clearly, thinking more creatively, and planning more effectively. This guide to productive thinking will help you do exactly that.
Whether you need to solve business problems, create new opportunities, or improve your personal life, Think Better offers the principles and tools you need. Author Tim Hurson takes you through the critical steps you need to:
* Commit to Change: Discover how what's working often blinds us to what's possible. Recognize that every frustration is an opportunity in disguise. Imagine a future of creative possibilities.
* Integrate the Principles of Productive Thinking: Don't just think outside the box. Recognize that for productive thinkers there is no box. Unlock the creative ideas in the "third third" of your consciousness-ideas that are always there, but often hovering just out of reach.
* Take Active Steps to Focus on and Solve Problems: Use the thinking tools in this book to make the unexpected connections that are at the heart of all creative ideas and implementable solutions.
It's a myth that people are either born productive thinkers or not. Productive thinking is a skill that can be taught, learned, practiced, and mastered-by anyone.
Thinking better leads to doing better, and ultimately to being better-in business and in life. With productive thinking, you can take on challenges in ways you never dreamed possible.
Weitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
OH
USA
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
Gewicht
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-260-10840-8 (9781260108408)
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Weitere Ausgaben
Person
Tim Hurson is a founding partner of thinkx intellectual capital (www.thinkxic.com), a firm that provides global corporations with training, facilitation, and consultation in productive thinking and innovation. He's both a faculty member and Trustee of the Creative Education Foundation, and a founding director of Facilitators Without Borders.
Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Productive Thinking in Context
Chapter 1: Why Think Better
Chapter 2: Monkey Mind, Gator Brain, and the Elephant's Tether
Part 2: Productive Thinking in Principle
Chapter 3: Kaizen vs. Tenkaizen
Chapter 4: Stay in the Question
Chapter 5: The Miracle of the Third Third
Part 3: Productive Thinking Theory
Chapter 6: Productive Thinking by Design
Chapter 7: Step 1: What's Going On? Puzzles, Probes, Possibilities
Chapter 8: Step 2: What's Success? The Future Pull Principle
Chapter 9: Step 3: What' the Question? Great Answer (Wrong Question)
Chapter 10: Step 4: Generate Answers Ten Thousand Failures
Chapter 11: Step 5: Forge the Solution Masamune's Katana
Chapter 12: Step 6: Align Resources Here Be Lions
Part 4: Productive Thinking in Practice
Chapter 13: Productive Thinking Redux
Chapter 14: Training vs. Entraining
Appendix: Productive Thinking in Action
Six Step Case Study, Jetways
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Productive Thinking in Context
Chapter 1: Why Think Better
Chapter 2: Monkey Mind, Gator Brain, and the Elephant's Tether
Part 2: Productive Thinking in Principle
Chapter 3: Kaizen vs. Tenkaizen
Chapter 4: Stay in the Question
Chapter 5: The Miracle of the Third Third
Part 3: Productive Thinking Theory
Chapter 6: Productive Thinking by Design
Chapter 7: Step 1: What's Going On? Puzzles, Probes, Possibilities
Chapter 8: Step 2: What's Success? The Future Pull Principle
Chapter 9: Step 3: What' the Question? Great Answer (Wrong Question)
Chapter 10: Step 4: Generate Answers Ten Thousand Failures
Chapter 11: Step 5: Forge the Solution Masamune's Katana
Chapter 12: Step 6: Align Resources Here Be Lions
Part 4: Productive Thinking in Practice
Chapter 13: Productive Thinking Redux
Chapter 14: Training vs. Entraining
Appendix: Productive Thinking in Action
Six Step Case Study, Jetways
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author