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.
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