Thinking course /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Thinking as a siclll 11
The intelligence trap 12
Practice 12
Education 1
3
Critical diinkmg 1
5
Perception 1
The tool method 1
6
2 Tlie PMI 18
Scan 21
Interesting 22
Use of the PMI 22
Two steps 24
Practice 24
3 Alternatives 25
Easy alternatives 26
More difEcult alternatives 27
The real difficulty 28
Beyond the adequate 29
TheAPC 31
Explanation 3
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Hypothesis 3
Perception 32
Problems 32
Review 32
Design 33
Dedsion 33
Coiirse of action 3 3
Forecasting 34
Practicality 34
Altemathres and creativity 35
4 Perception and patterns 36
Perception 36
Crossing the road 40
Pattern making 41
How patterns are formed 42
The use of patterns 45
Recognition 45
Getting it wrong 46
Abstraction 47
Grouping 47
Analysis 48
Awareness 48
Art 49
Exercise 49
5 Lateral thinking 50
Pattern changing 51
Humour 52
Hindsight and insight 53
Creativity and lateral thinking 54
Lateral thinking as process 55
Judgement and provocation 56
The word 'po* 58
The stepping stone method 58
The escape method 61
The random stimulation method 62
General use of lateral thinking 64
The logic of lateral thinking 64
6 Information and thinking 66
Operacy ^
Experience scan 68
CAE 68
C&S 69
Dense reading and dense listening 71
Logic 72
Getting more information 73
Questions 73
Experiments 74
Selecting information 75
FI-FO 76
Two uses 76
7 Other People 77
'Exlectdcs' 80
EBS 81
ADI 82
'Logic-bubbles' 83
OPV 85
Constructive design 88
Negotiation 88
Conunimication 89
8 Emotions and values 91
Gut feeling and thinking 91
Emotions at three points 92
Changing feelings 94
Values 95
HVandLV 96
Value-laden words 97
Awareness 99
9 Making dsolslons lOO
Decision pre-frame 101
Generation of alternatives 101
Values and priorities 1 01
The dice method 102
Hie easy way out method 102
The spell-out method 103
Buriden's ass metiiod 104
The ideal solution method 105
The best home method 105
The *Whlat if..?' mediod 106
The simple matrix method 107
The fiill matrix method 1 08
The laziness method 109
Decision post-frame 110
Emphasis on fit 111
The future 111
10 Tliinldng and doing 112
Operacy 113
TTiree ways of doing tilings 113
Setting objectives 114
AGO 115
Targets 116
Strategy and tactics 117
Courses of action 118
If-boxraaps 119
Planning 120
The terrain 121
People 121
Risks 121
Constraints 122
Resources 122
Future 122
Business and daily U& 122
11 Deliberate thinking 1S3
Deliberate 123
Focused 123
Confident 124
Enjoyable 124
Self-image 125
Time discipline 125
Harvesting 126
Thinking about tiiinking 127
The TEC framework 1 28
The 5-minute think 129
Symbolic TEC 132
PISCO 133
Symbolic PISCO 134
TEC-PISCO 134
Deliberate practice of thinking 1 34
Thinking clubs 135
General thinking skiUs 135
Formal and informal 137
12 Summary 138
Reference material 14S
Setting up a thinking clul> 144
Index 155