If you think impossible thoughts, you can do impossible things!
That's the message of this book. But how do you do it? "The Power
of Impossible Thinking" is about getting better at making sense of
what's going on around you so you can make decisions that respond
to reality, not inaccurate or obsolete models of the world. Now in
paperback for the first time, this bestseller reveals how your
mental models stand between you and the truth and how to transform
them into your biggest advantage. You'll learn how to develop new
ways of seeing, when to change to a new model, how to swap amongst
a portfolio of models, how to "zoom in and out" to understand
complex environments and how to do "mind R and D," improving your
models through constant experimenation.Jerry Wind and Colin Crook
review why it's so hard to change mental models and offer practical
strategies for dismantling the "hardened missile silos" that are
your old and obsolete models.Finally they show how to access models
quickly through intuition, and help you assess the effectiveness of
any mental model. This paperback edition contains an all-new
introduction that illuminates the stunning power of mental models
in domains ranging from business and technology to geopolitics.
Purchasers of this book gain access to audio summaries on a
companion web site, along with a new half-hour interview with the
authors.
Contents: (An Aside) Is This
Any Way to Start a Book? xxiii Preface xlvii Introduction to the
Paperback Edition lix Part 1: Recognize the Power and Limits of
Mental Models 1 Chapter 1: Our Models Define Our World 3 Chapter 2:
Running the Miracle Mile 21 Part 2: Keeping Your Models Relevant 37
Chapter 3: Should You Change Horses? 39 Chapter 4: Paradigm Shifts
Are a Two-Way Street 57 Chapter 5: Seeing a New Way of Seeing 77
Chapter 6: Sift for Sense from Streams of Complexity 93 Chapter 7:
Engage in R&D of the Mind 121 Part 3: Transform Your World 139
Chapter 8: Dismantle the Old Order 141 Chapter 9: Find Common
Ground to Bridge Adaptive Disconnects 157 Part 4: Act Quickly and
Effectively 171 Chapter 10: Develop the Intuition to Act Quickly
173 Chapter 11: The Power to Do the Impossible 189 Chapter 12:
Challenging Your Own Thinking: Personal, Business, and Society 209
Conclusion: What You Think Is What You Do 235 Appendix: The
Neuroscience Behind Mental Models 239 Selected Bibliography 257
Acknowledgments 261 Index 263
PUBLICATION DATE: Mar 2006
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