01642nam a2200241 a 4500001001400000003000700014005001700021008004100038010001600079020003100095020002800126040000800154100001700162245009500179260003600274300002700310440004800337504005100385505074900436650002601185856008301211856010601294vtls000027668KUKTEM20251125093011.0080512s2007    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a2007-023053  a9780071494939 (alk. paper)  a0071494936 (alk. paper)  aUMP1 aHurson, Tim.10aThink better :b(your company's future depends on it ... and so does yours) /cTim Hurson.  aNew York :bMcGraw-Hill,c2007.  axvii, 292 p. ;c24 cm. 3aAn innovator's guide to productive thinking  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aProductive 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. 0aThought and thinking.413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007023053.html423Contributor biographical informationuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0728/2007023053-b.html