The thinker's toolkit : fourteen powerful techniques for problem solving

✍ Scribed by Morgan D. Jones

Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Edition: Rev. and updated
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Acknowledgments --

Introduction --

Part 1: Why We Go Astray --

1: Thinking About Thinking --

2: Insights into Problem Solving --

Part 2: The Fourteen Tools --

3: Problem Restatement --

4: Pros-Cons-and-Fixes --

5: Divergent/Convergent Thinking --

6: Sorting, Chronologies, and Time Lines --

7: Casual Flow Diagramming --

8: The Matrix --

9: The Scenario Tree --

10: Weighted Rankings --

11: Hypothesis Testing --

12: Devil's Advocacy --

13: The Probability Tree --

14: The Utility Tree --

15: The Utility Matrix --

16: Advanced Utility Analysis --

Part 3: Where Do We Go from Here? --

17: Your Next Steps --

Solutions to Exercises --

For Further Reading --

Notes --

Index.

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