How To Solve Problems and Make Brilliant Decisions

✍ Scribed by Richard Hall

• Publisher: Pearson Business
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 349
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Business thinking skills that really work

Better creative thinking leads to brilliant decision making and successful, innovative solutions to business problems. Using the proven practical skills, techniques and advice in this book, you will learn how to think better, faster and more productively, enabling you to shape, train and inspire your thinking to deliver more effective results.

·    Improve your critical analysis and thinking skills

·    Become confident in making better and more creative decisions

·    become faster and more effective at problem solving

This book will enable you to become a calm, logical and well-argued decision maker with the ability to deliver better solutions and outstanding results - and win the accolade for your work – “well thought through, persuasively argued with a creative set of options. Well done.”

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
About the author
Preface
Introduction: what do you think?
Part 1: How to use your most important asset – your brain
Chapter 1: Your thinking machine needs looking after
Part 2: Summary: brilliant thinking on a plate
Chapter 2: A brilliant thinking toolkit
Part 3: Critical thinking
Chapter 3: Problem-solvers of the world get ready
Chapter 4: Read, mark, learn and listen (most of all listen)
Part 4: Decision-making
Chapter 5: Deconstructing the decision-making process
Chapter 6: Become better at decision-making
Chater 7: Heffalump-traps, sleeping-policemen and other pitfalls
Part 5: Creative thinking
Chapter 8: What makes creativity so powerful and so exciting
Chapter 9: Ten ways to become brilliantly creative
Chapter 10: Exercises to help you become creative
Chapter 11: Winning strategies for your creative journey
Chapter 12: Creating brilliant creative-thinking workshops
Part 6: Thinking of other people
Chapter 13: How to get on other people's wavelengths
Chapter 14: Ways to connect more effectively
Chapter 15: Understanding changing minds and changing times
Part 7: Final thoughts
Chapter 16: Using our minds to their full potential
A reading list
Index