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    Creative Thinking & Problem Solving
    Creative Thinking & Problem Solving
    Creative Thinking & Problem Solving
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    Creative Thinking & Problem Solving

    By Philip Sinclair

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    This book is for anyone, anywhere, in any position in business. It will help you think things through creatively, quickly get the right solution and get you the recognition you deserve for your role as an innovative leader.
    You'll learn really useful techniques for generating ideas, a simple but effective method for the Evaluation of your Ideas - and when you have the Big Idea you can apply the "six-phases of decision-making" to make sure you have the right one.

    Anybody in any field of business today needs to be a leader rather than a follower. So you'll need great ideas and solutions to sometimes difficult problems. This book will give you the tools for Creative Thinking and Problem Solving. It will help you view familiar things in new ways that give you an advantage. Five techniques will help you to generate numbers of useful big ideas, show you how to evaluate them and then how to decide which ones to use for the greatest benefit.

    Phil Sinclair (Author) is well-known for his contribution to the publishing of training and self-development materials for young managers in his home country of South Africa. His audio seminars have been heard by more than 100,000 executives world-wide. He has received several prestigious international awards for his work in small business promotion. He is author of three books and twelve internationally used management training programmes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilip Sinclair
    Release dateSep 10, 2012
    ISBN9781301341207
    Creative Thinking & Problem Solving
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    Philip Sinclair

    Phil Sinclair has a long career in developing and publishing materials for self-improvement and training of young managers. He is presently publishing director for Leader's-Edge (South Africa). He has authored seven books teaching management skills and fourteen training programmes. His audio seminars on human resources topics have been heard by well over 100,000 individuals. Phil's work has received international recognition in the form of three awards. His interest is in helping people to better themselves.

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    Creative Thinking & Problem Solving - Philip Sinclair

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    CREATIVE THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING

    Copyright Philip K Sinclair 2012 publisher

    Smashwords Edition

    The entire copyright of this publication including all intellectual rights are the property of the publisher. The book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not in full, or in part, by way of trade, or otherwise, be resold, hired out, copied or stored in an electronic retrieval system other than that of the purchaser, or circulated in any form without the publisher’s consent.

    Phil Sinclair- Author

    Contents

    Thinking about thinking

    Leaders must think creatively

    How to make things happen

    Psycho-Cybernetics

    Talking to yourself is good!

    More proof that it works

    How many ideas are needed?

    New ideas spring from old sources

    Five techniques for idea generation

    Evaluation of your ideas

    Six phases of Decision Making

    Summary

    Thinking about thinking

    Most managers are under the impression that hard work, determination and long hours will ultimately make them a winner. But these things alone are not what separates winners from also rans in the race for recognition from your company and from those who work with you, for you and around you.

    The winners are those who have the leading edge. Highly competitive athletics winners win by only a fraction of a second. Canoeists win by an oar stroke. In horse racing the winner wins by a nose. In every field of sport, or business endeavor, the winners have just a slight edge over the rest of the field... and it's this slight edge that makes some executives more effective and successful than others. I call it the LEADER'S-EDGE.

    For quite a few years, in my job as a publisher of materials for training and personal development, I have been involved in helping people to learn new skills. And I have come to the conclusion that the skill of Creative Thinking is the premier and most important of all management skills that you need in this demanding world today.

    This is simply because anything else that you do, in the way of delegation, motivating subordinates, negotiation, communication, coaching, teaching, or training, is all going to work at half-steam if you don't use your power to think creatively.

    Solutions that are not the product of creative thinking, are the solutions that everyone else is going to come up with and not many people want to follow somebody, who does not have the vision and ability to produce new ideas.

    If you don't have followers who admire and respect you, you are not a leader. You may be a good manager, but by definition you can't be a good leader because leaders have a following. They have more people and power behind them to make things happen, than does the ordinary manager.

    Leaders come in a variety and leadership can be practiced by anyone who is prepared to think and act like a leader. You can lead a multinational conglomerate corporation, or you can lead a fundraising, or a boy scout troop. You may be a team leader, a project leader, or group leader. You may be a charismatic extrovert, or a quietly effective introspective kind of person. There is nothing stopping you becoming a leader... except the way in which you think.

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