STRENGTHEN AND DEFEND YOUR THINKING
Here are a few points to ponder regarding your thinking.
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Thank God he ignored the generals
Time on a treadmill is boring, so I try to find interesting stuff to watch. I was watching the lecture series World War II: Battlefield Europe, presented by David Stone who teaches at the U.S. Naval War College. This series looks at WW II from a European perspective, but I was surprised that the series…
Why did I save that book?
we need to intercept the future!
Where’s Buck Rogers?
Buck Rogers was a science fiction adventure hero introduced to the U.S. public in a newspaper comic-strip on January 7, 1929. A year later, January 22, 1930, Buck first ventured into space aboard a rocket ship in his fifth newspaper comic story Tiger Men from Mars. Our love of space and adventure has been with us…
Bad Thinking – 10 examples
It’s a wicked world and we need better thinking to survive.
You work inside 5 nested boxes. Stay aligned.
You work within a set of nested boxes and it’s your job to keep them mentally aligned. Otherwise, you’ll be blind to emerging problems and opportunities. Plan on spending 90 minutes every quarter with your team to discuss the implications of changes in the larger environments that might affect your plans and decisions. Work on…
Systems thinking and the pragmatic thinker
I recently presented my case for becoming a thinking generalist. However, I’d like to modify that title a bit and rename this person a Pragmatic Thinker. As stated last time, Pragmatic Thinkers incorporate the essentials of five schools of thought into their daily lives. Critical thinking – because we must evaluate evidence and arguments. Skepticism…
Pragmatic Business Thinking
In the last issue of MindPrep I mentioned our plans to create a course focused on Pragmatic Business Thinking and I drafted a course description. Mary, my friend and advisor, reminded me that I just might want to define the term before I described the course. Of course, I was assuming that all of you…
Defective Thinking ?
First, a quick quiz. What do they have in common? Well, obviously, they are no longer needed. But ponder this – these businesses were managed by experienced, educated, well paid, and (supposedly) smart people. What went wrong? Why did they disappear? I suggest that poor quality thinking is at the heart of the decisions they…
