MindLab: A Place to Think - Couverture souple

Welter, Bill

 
9781434379160: MindLab: A Place to Think

Synopsis

Thinking is a skill and skills only improve with practice. This book is for the "laboratory of your mind" and provides three areas to practice. Part One is used to cutomize your checklist of "good thinking" attributes. Part Two contains 30 short exercises. Do one a day for thirty days and improve you thinking skills. Part Three contains an abbreviated process for thinking about turning your business strategy (at any level) into actionable areas of change.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Bill is a consulting-educator who helps organizations succeed by helping managers excel and prepare for their tomorrows. He connects Louis Pasteur's quote of "Chance favors the prepared mind" with today's business relaities. How workshops and consulting focus on first thinking critically about business strategy and then actually making strategy operational. He brings over 40 years of experience spanning four careers: military, engineering, consulting and education. He is the Managing Director of Adaptive Strategies, Inc., a small firm specializing in improving the strategic behavior of middle managers. He is also a Fellow in Executive Education at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He is the lead co-author of The Prepared Mind of a Leader: Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions, and Solve Problems (Jossey-Bass, 2006). This book was featured by 800CEORead, Harvard Management Update, and LeadershipNow.com. He is currently working with another consulting-educator on a book addressing the challenges of renewing a mature business.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Thinking is a skill and skills only improve with practice. This book is for the "laboratory of your mind" and provides three areas to practice. Part One is used to cutomize your checklist of "good thinking" attributes. Part Two contains 30 short exercises. Do one a day for thirty days and improve you thinking skills. Part Three contains an abbreviated process for thinking about turning your business strategy (at any level) into actionable areas of change.

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