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More About This Title Think Fast!: Accurate Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Planning in Minutes a Day
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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.
- Alamo's CTS solutions have been proven effective in major companies, including 200 of the current Fortune 500
- Uses real examples from outside the business world to make problems and solutions widely accessible
At last, the Critical Thinking Skills that have guided some of the world's most successful companies are available to readers of this insightful guide. Start rethinking your business today, and take your business skills—and business results—to the next level.
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GUY A. HALE, a seasoned business leader, is chairman and CEO of Alamo Learning Systems, one of the oldest and most highly regarded management training and consulting companies in the world. The company's growing list of clients includes more than two hundred Fortune 500 companies. Guy has overseen the development of innovative and popular training programs such as Critical Thinking Skills, Process Improvement, Project Management, Innovation, Team Building, Total Quality Management, and ISO 9000, ISO 14000, and QS-9000. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the two most prestigious graduate schools in China, Beijing and Tsinghau Universities. He is author of The Proactive Manager (Wiley) and The Leader's Edge, which has become one of the all-time bestselling business books in China. Guy wrote Think Fast! for anyone at any level of leadership, who wants to conquer his or her concerns with speed and accuracy, and achieve meaningful success!
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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
