The Thinking Manager's Toolbox

In this indispensable book a widely experienced business consultant provides a complete set of analytical tools essential to successful trouble-shooting effective planning and making better decisions faster more confidently and more often. How can you help your company solve a problem in just a few days that''s been plaguing managers for three months? How can you bring a room of executives to a consensus on a critical decision that the CEO and his committee have been wrestling with for years? Of course this is easier said than done. Indeed not a week goes by without a major business media story about a company that has fallen on hard times and an executive that has resigned for personal reasons. The root of the failure is usually ineffective decision-making processes and ultimately bad decisions. In The Thinking Manager''s Toolbox veteran consultant and renowned business thinker William J. Altier cogently presents the underpinnings of successful thinking processes and their applications drawing on practical real-world experiences. The first section explores the fundamentals of thinking change and the critical role that sound thinking processes play in effective problem solving. The second section your basic toolbox develops five in-depth fundamental thinking processes. And a third section the advanced toolbox develops more specialized applications for creative problem solving. Here then is a valuable primer for anyone whether a middle manager or a CEO seeking to solve problems and make better decisions more efficiently. The Thinking Manager''s Toolbox is an invaluable resource for those seeking to develop the fundamental thinking processes necessary to perform with excellence.