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Future Think: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change
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Future Think: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change

by Arnold Brown, Edie Weiner
September 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
5h 59m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Future Think: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change

Chapter . Conclusion

If you want to make God laugh, goes an old business adage, show Him your plan. In a time of rapid and massive change, such as we now live in, formal planning is too often an exercise in futility. It's not just change that makes this so. The narrowness of most business planning—or personal planning, for that matter—contributes as well.

Planners tend to make three really big mistakes:

  • Faulty or inadequate analysis

  • Not seeing the big picture—the context

  • Failure to link information to action

The first of these cannot be corrected easily. It requires a wrenching change in ordinary or usual thinking. The techniques in this book can help you think better in order to act more effectively. It is very difficult to change how you think, but ...

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