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Author:

Hurson, Tim.

Title:

Think better (your company's future depends on it-- and so does yours) : an innovator's guide to productive thinking / Tim Hurson.

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xvii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Thought and thinking.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-281) and index.

Contents:

Productive thinking in context -- Why think better -- Monkey mind, gator brain, and the elephant's tether -- Productive thinking in principle -- Kaizen vs. Tenkaizen -- Stay in the question -- The miracle of the third third -- Productive thinking in theory -- Productive thinking by design -- Step 1: what's going on? Puzzles, probes, possibilities -- Step 2: what's success? The future pull principle -- Step 3: what's the question? Great answer (wrong question) -- Step 4: generate answers. Ten thousand failures -- Step 5: forge the solution. Masamune's Katana -- Step 6: align resources. Here be lions -- Productive thinking in practice -- Productive thinking redux -- Training vs. entraining.

ISBN:

9780071494939 (alk. paper)
0071494936 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007023053

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)