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Narrated by:
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Mike Fraser
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By:
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Edward De Bono
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Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.
Your success depends on how you think. The main difficulty of thinking is confusion, writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as an international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls. The solution? De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his six thinking hats:
- WHITE HAT: neutral and objective, concerned with facts and figures
- RED HAT: the emotional view
- BLACK HAT: careful and cautious
- YELLOW HAT: sunny and positive
- GREEN HAT: associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideas
- BLUE HAT: cool, the color of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hat
Through case studies and real-life examples, Dr. de Bono reveals the often surprising ways in which deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker. He offers a powerfully simple tool that you can use to create clearer thinking, improved communication, and greater creativity. This audio edition of his timeless book is an instructive and inspiring text for anyone who makes decisions, in business or in life.
This audiobook is skillfully narrated by Mike Fraser, an Audible listener favorite. Published with permission from Edward de Bono Ltd. Information on training in the Six Thinking Hats is available at deBono.com.
This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week's meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts' predictions are only slightly better than chance. However, an important and underreported conclusion of that study was that some experts do have real foresight.
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Great for Experts
- By Michael on 02-20-17
By: Philip Tetlock, and others
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Ask Powerful Questions
- Create Conversations That Matter
- By: Will Wise
- Narrated by: Dan Radin
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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In Ask Powerful Questions, Will Wise explains how the questions we traditionally ask are virtually meaningless when it comes to establishing connection. Introducing a set of practical tools for accessing and understanding others by changing the way we ask questions, Will shows how to transform "How are you? I'm fine, thanks" into a conversation that changes not only how you lead, but who you are as a person.
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Content is insightful and triggering BUT .....
- By Anonymous User on 08-24-23
By: Will Wise
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- 30th Anniversary Edition
- By: Sean Covey, Jim Collins - foreword, Stephen R. Covey
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Covey, Sean Covey
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated people for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators, and parents - millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now, this 30th anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the seven habits with modern additions from Sean Covey.
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Even Better!
- By Tim Torres on 06-16-20
By: Sean Covey, and others
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Mindreader
- The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
- By: David J. Lieberman
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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What did your boss mean in that email? Is your mechanic stretching the truth? Whether you’re engaged in a casual conversation or a high-stakes negotiation, it’s critical to understand the subtext of a situation. But with so much interaction happening on screens—via email, texts, or video chat—we are losing the ability to interpret expressions and cues. Furthermore, since many are now savvy about the meaning of body language, it’s become even harder to discern someone’s true thoughts or intentions.
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Waste of a credit for common sense observations
- By Brendan on 08-30-22
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How to Decide
- Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
- By: Annie Duke
- Narrated by: Annie Duke
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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What do you do when you're faced with a big decision? If you're like most people, you probably make a pro and con list, spend a lot of time obsessing about decisions that didn't work out, get caught in analysis paralysis, endlessly seek other people's opinions to find just that little bit of extra information that might make you sure, and finally go with your gut.
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A lot of useless fluff
- By Jerry Fletcher on 11-24-20
By: Annie Duke
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Range
- Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- By: David Epstein
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule. David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel.
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If you're highly curious, read this
- By anon. on 06-07-19
By: David Epstein
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The Challenger Sale
- Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
- By: Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson
- Narrated by: Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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The need to understand what top-performing reps are doing that their average performing colleagues are not drove Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at Corporate Executive Board to investigate the skills, behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes that matter most for high performance. And what they discovered may be the biggest shock to conventional sales wisdom in decades.
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Bellow average book
- By Elias Karráa on 08-11-19
By: Matthew Dixon, and others
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The Coaching Habit
- Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
- By: Michael Bungay Stanier
- Narrated by: Daniel Maté
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how - by saying less and asking more - you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.
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What's on your mind?
- By A. Yoshida on 08-11-16
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Make It Stick
- The Science of Successful Learning
- By: Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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To most of us, learning something 'the hard way' implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head and will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.
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FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO KNOW HOW TO LEARN
- By ANDRÉ on 11-22-14
By: Peter C. Brown, and others
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Switch
- How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
- By: Dan Heath, Chip Heath
- Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed best seller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems - the rational mind and the emotional mind - that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie.
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Even Better Than Made to Stick
- By Jeremy Devens on 02-24-10
By: Dan Heath, and others
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: 25th Anniversary
- Follow Them and People Will Follow You
- By: John C. Maxwell
- Narrated by: John C. Maxwell, Henry O. Arnold
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell’s bestselling The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, with the publication of a revised and updated 25th anniversary edition. Included are insights from Maxwell on each law and how they have impacted his life as a leader and mentor. There will also be stories from some of today’s most impactful leaders, like IT Cosmetics' Jamie Kern Lima, Maxwell Leadership CEO Mark Cole, and author and marketing expert Jeff Henderson, on how they have applied these laws to their own success journeys.
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Very intriguing views.
- By Jason Frampton on 11-11-22
By: John C. Maxwell
A method for tackling complexity in thinking
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Outstanding method!
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First timer
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Systematic!
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the ease of switching thinking hats
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Everyone needs to read this.
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Well worth your time
Excellent book
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I really liked how simple it was to understand and how useful it can be for many things
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This has helped me… a lot!
I hope it helps you too.
The concepts help navigate difficult conversations
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Meh
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