How to Think Creatively and Make Brilliant Decisions

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