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Hurson, Tim.

Think better (your company's future depends on it-- and so does yours) : an innovator's guide to productive thinking / Tim Hurson. - New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008. - xvii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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

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 (hbk.) 0071494936 (hbk.)

LCCN: 2007023053

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA763598 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013817617 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Thought and thinking.

LC Class. No.: BF441 / .H87 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 153.42 / HUR 2008