How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

through this process. Take a look at the following questions developed by my friend Bobb Biehl, the author of Masterplanning.^8 ...

HOW TO RELEASE THE POWER OFSTRATEGIC THINKING To become a better strategic thinker able to formulate and implement plans that wi ...

and consensus to the team, because everyone sees those things. Obvious elements build mental momentum and initiate creativity an ...

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6 Explore Possibility Thinking “Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done.” —S ...

that making lighter cars couldn’t be done, would be too expensive, and would present too many safety concerns. They couldn’t get ...

1. Stop Focusing on the Impossibilities The first step in becoming a possibility thinker is to stop yourself from searching for ...

characteristics of vision that he showed me, and I’ll never forget it, is look for the good in what other people are doing and a ...

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7 Learn from Reflective Thinking “To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispen ...

4. Reflective Thinking Clarifies the Big Picture When you engage in reflective thinking, you can put ideas and experiences into ...

tool. What could be better, however, for helping you to review where you have been and what you have done —except maybe a journa ...

A bracket like this [ means that I want to use what’s marked in a lecture or book. An arrow like this ← means this idea will tak ...

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8 Question Popular Thinking “I’m not an answering machine, I’m a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we’re ...

2. Popular Thinking Offers False Hope Benno Muller-Hill, a professor in the University of Cologne genetics department, tells how ...

1. Think Before You Follow Many individuals follow others almost automatically. Sometimes they do so because they desire to take ...

it repeatedly, even if it no longer works well. The greatest enemy to to-morrow’s success is sometimes today’s success. My frien ...

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9 Benefit from Shared Thinking “None of us is as smart as all of us.” —KEN BLANCHARD Good thinkers, especially those who are als ...