Hurson, Tim.

Think better : (your company's future depends on it ... and so does yours) / Tim Hurson. - New York : McGraw-Hill, 2007. - xvii, 292 p. ; 24 cm. - An innovator's guide to productive thinking .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Productive thinking in context -- Why think better -- Monkey mind, gator brain, and the elephants 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 -- An overview of the six-step process -- 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 -- Thousand failures -- Step 5: forge the solution -- Masamunes Katana -- Step 6: align resources -- Here be lions -- Productive thinking in practice -- Productive thinking redux -- Training vs. entraining.

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

2007-023053


Thought and thinking.