Thinking For A Change

Author : Lisa J. Scheinkopf
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781420049046
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking for a Change written by Lisa J. Scheinkopf and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-01-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with an overview of the constraint-based perspective on systems and organizations, commonly referred to as the theory of constraints or synchronous management. The first section will guide you through the fundamental principles and processes that are the backbone of the thinking process application tools. The second section contains the step-by-step guidelines for each of the five thinking process application tools. These tools utilize sufficient cause thinking and necessary condition thinking. Third section introduces two ways that two or more of the thinking process application tools are combined, providing robust processes for the understanding and communicating problems and solutions. This book can be used as a field guide to learning the five thinking process application tools as needed, based on their own particular issues. You will have a full understanding of the theory and practical application of these powerful processes, including when and when not to use each tool. The total benefit is not just to apply the thinking process, but to develop intuition and have the ability to combine logic and intuition in the same thinking process.

Author : David Peter Stroh
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603585818
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Systems Thinking For Social Change written by David Peter Stroh and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation. How do these unintended consequences come about and how can we avoid them? By applying conventional thinking to complex social problems, we often perpetuate the very problems we try so hard to solve, but it is possible to think differently, and get different results. Systems Thinking for Social Change enables readers to contribute more effectively to society by helping them understand what systems thinking is and why it is so important in their work. It also gives concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning without becoming a technical expert. Systems thinking leader David Stroh walks readers through techniques he has used to help people improve their efforts to end homelessness, improve public health, strengthen education, design a system for early childhood development, protect child welfare, develop rural economies, facilitate the reentry of formerly incarcerated people into society, resolve identity-based conflicts, and more. The result is a highly readable, effective guide to understanding systems and using that knowledge to get the results you want.

Author : Dave Gray
Publisher : Rosenfeld Media
ISBN 13 : 1933820624
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liminal Thinking written by Dave Gray and published by Rosenfeld Media. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why do some people succeed at change while others fail? It's the way they think! Liminal thinking is a way to create change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs. What beliefs are stopping you right now? You have a choice. You can create the world you want to live in, or live in a world created by others. If you are ready to start making changes, read this book."

Author : John C. Maxwell
Publisher : Center Street
ISBN 13 : 1599952157
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Successful People Think written by John C. Maxwell and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gather successful people from all walks of life -- what would they have in common? The way they think! Now you can think as they do and revolutionize your work and life! A Wall Street Journal bestseller, How Successful People Think is the perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world. America's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You'll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You'll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these eleven keys to more effective thinking, you'll clearly see the path to personal success. The 11 keys to successful thinking include: Big-Picture Thinking - seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas Focused Thinking - removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential Creative Thinking - thinking in unique ways and making breakthroughs Shared Thinking - working with others to compound results Reflective Thinking - looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future.

Author : Jack Bush
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119121434
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Self Change written by Jack Bush and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the latest literature to highlight a fundamental challenge in offender rehabilitation; it questions the ability of contemporary approaches to address this challenge, and proposes an alternative strategy of criminal justice that integrates control, opportunity, and autonomy. • Provides an up to date review of the links between cognition and criminal behavior, as well as treatment and rehabilitation • Engages directly with the antisocial underpinnings of criminal behavior, a major impediment to treatment and rehabilitation • Outlines a clear strategy for communicating with offenders which is firmly rooted in the “What Works” literature, is evidence-based, and provides a way of engaging even the most antisocial of offenders by presenting them with meaningful opportunities to change • Offers hands-on instructions based upon the real-life tactics and presentation of the high-risk offender

Author : Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101870931
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elastic written by Leonard Mlodinow and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard’s Walk teaches you how to tap into the hidden power of your brain. “Elastic is a book that will help you survive the whirlwind.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of When and A Whole New Mind Named to the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist In this startling and provocative look at how the human mind deals with change, Leonard Mlodinow shows us to unleash the natural abilities we all possess so we can thrive in dynamic and troubled times. Truly original minds capitalize when everyone else struggles. And most of us assume that these abilities are innate, reserved for a select few. But Mlodinow reveals that we all possess them, that we all have encoded in our brains a skill he terms elastic thinking—and he guides us in how to harness it. Drawing on groundbreaking research, Mlodinow outlines how we can learn to let go of comfortable ideas and become accustomed to ambiguity and contradiction; how we can rise above conventional mindsets and reframe the questions we ask; and how we can improve our ability to solve problems and generate new ideas—critical skills for achieving professional and personal success in our quickly morphing world.

Author : Kate James
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1760984817
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change Your Thinking to Change Your Life written by Kate James and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us experience feelings of being stuck in the wrong life and disconnected from our true selves. Australian mindfulness expert and bestselling author Kate James has coached thousands of clients in similar situations. Now, Kate introduces us to a range of techniques, based on her knowledge of mindfulness, positive psychology, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), creativity and neuropsychology, that will help us clarify our goals, realise our purpose and connect more fully with the wonder of life. Change Your Thinking to Change Your Life will help you to: - get to know yourself well - overcome the thoughts and beliefs that inhibit inner peace and limit you in your life choices - find your way to your version of a fulfilling life This is the perfect companion for negotiating transformation in an unsettled age. Praise for Change Your Thinking to Change Your Life 'Kate James is such an honest, warm and generous teacher. Read this book and you'll be learning from one of the very best.' Clare Bowditch 'Kate's writing is immensely practical. Rich with compassiona nd insight from her many years as a therapist, her books always offer life-enhancing tools that may be applied right away. Transformational wisdom at its best!' David Michie, author of Hurry Up and Meditate

Author : Brian Tracy
Publisher : Wiley + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1118045696
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life written by Brian Tracy and published by Wiley + ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-help guide offering tools for readers to transform patterns of thinking, discover potential and achieve personal and professional success. Brian Tracy offers a proven plan for transforming your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential. What you think has a profound effect on what you do and how you do it. But your thoughts aren’t set in stone. Just like you can learn to ride a bike or play chess, you can also learn to control your thinking and control your life. Based on Tracy’s thirty years of experience as a successful businessman and speaker, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life presents twelve powerful principles that will help anyone get on the road to a better, more fulfilling professional and personal life. Each chapter offers inspirational stories, along with exercises that help you train yourself to think and act like the successful person you truly are. The principles in this book have helped millions of people take control of their thinking and make positive changes in their lives. And they can help you too. If you want to achieve wealth, happiness, and professional and personal fulfillment, all you have to do is Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life. “Brian Tracy is the preeminent authority on showing you how to dramatically improve your life. Let him be your guide.” —Robert G. Allen, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “This book gives you a step-by-step system to transform your thinking about yourself and your potential, enabling you to achieve greater success in every area of your life.” —Lee Iacocca, Chairman, Lee Iacocca & Associates

Author : Donella Meadows
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603581480
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking in Systems written by Donella Meadows and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! "This is a fabulous book... This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."—Forbes "Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind."—Hunter Lovins In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.

Author : Tim Brown
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061937746
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change by Design written by Tim Brown and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Change by Design, Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, the celebrated innovation and design firm, shows how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business. Change by Design is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders who seek to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization, product, or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.