Description
Book SynopsisApply proven critical thinking processes and supercharge your business Alamo Learning Systems has been providing Critical Thinking Skills (CTS), problem solving, decision-making, preventive action, and innovation training solutions to the corporate world for more than 35 years. They have been at the forefront of such movements in management as ISO 9000, Six Sigma, and Lean Manufacturing.
Now, in Think Fast!, these CTS experts bring you an up-to-the-minute toolbox of strategies and tactics you can use to optimize your business. This useful and easy-to-read guide looks at real-world consumer issues, giving you top-level skills to address a wide range of practical business, professional, and life problems.
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Alamo''s CTS solutions have been proven effective in major companies, including 200 of the current Fortune 500
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Uses real examples from outside the business world to make problems and solutions widely accessible
Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
1. Good News 1
2. Start Here: Stop 15
3. The Dump List 23
4. Simplify 31
5. Pick the Right Road: Three Little Questions 51
6. Recognize Your Progress 61
7. Present: Decide Now! 67
8. Past: Find Out “Why?” 103
9. Future: Plan to Make It Happen 129
10. Go Forward with Confidence 157
Bonus Chapter. Innovation: Create Something New 163
Index 187
