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  • The Systems Thinker: Analytical Skills

  • Level Up Your Decision Making, Problem Solving, and Deduction Skills. Notice the Details Others Miss.
  • By: Albert Rutherford
  • Narrated by: Russell Newton
  • Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (236 ratings)

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The Systems Thinker: Analytical Skills

By: Albert Rutherford
Narrated by: Russell Newton
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Enhance your logic, reason, judgment, and wisdom. Increase your ability to create concise and reasoned arguments using data and evidence to get a genuine conclusion.

The Systems Thinker: Analytical Skills aims to raise the level of your mental performance by focusing on the fundamentals of how to use your mind effectively. This audiobook will show you how to:

  • Increase your ability to analyze problems and to comprehend what you read, hear, and experience in a logical manner.
  • Examine the logical structure of good and bad reasoning.
  • Look at what type of evidence decisions are commonly based on.
  • Detect common fallacies and rhetorical and psychological factors that can influence your thinking.

The audiobook presents the methods that good problem-solvers use in understanding complex ideas. It provides practice in applying these methods to a variety of comprehension, analytical, and reasoning questions. It also includes a number of logical thinking problems to hone your logical thinking skills.

Use these intellectual skills to analyze anything you might think about - questions, problems, disciplines.

  • The most widely used forms of analysis
  • Guidance and practice to monitor your thoughts with the help of intellectual tools
  • Learn to question purposes, problems, information, and concepts
  • Interdisciplinary analytical tools to understand and assess your own reasoning, be it about a highly technical question or your everyday life

The Systems Thinker: Analytical Skills helps you to find the most fundamental logic of any discipline, problem, or thesis. Transfer your knowledge between and among subjects and fields of observation.

  • Learn four types of profound analysis.
  • Learn to read and create statistical charts.
  • Learn and correct the most frequent errors in reasoning.
  • Learn to complement your analytical thinking tools with synthetic, systemic, critical, and creative thinking tools.

Good analytical thinking skills are deeply necessary if you are working in business, education, law, politics, and economics. Understanding the underlying structure of a problem can help you come up with the best solution.

Adopt analytical thinking skills to make better decisions, assess situations more accurately, and persuade other people with more success to consider your point of view. This audiobook serves as a springboard toward analytic proficiency.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Albert Rutherford (P)2019 Albert Rutherford
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Nice short read. Concise and informative

This was a good read. I plan to order a hard copy too for reference because I learned some new things that I’ll apply to my professional life and personal life. It wasn’t an exhaustive explanation of analytical thinking but it was very concise and informative. Just what I needed. Thank you

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Kept pausing

It is a very informative book May need to be re-recorded. Pause through most of the chapter, especially throughout the transition of chapters which made it difficult to listen.

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A quick but worthy read

The author does a good job at presenting influential figures from the realm of systems thinking. He also manages to add some practical advice into each chapter.

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Needs website which is currently down.

A great tool. This definitely isn't a book you can just listen to while working or driving. Also, some items are easier to grasp with access to the diagrams that should be (but aren't) available in the website.

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ok for starting.

ok if you've never done this kind of thinking before. if you are in a field that requires this kind of thinking this is just a refresher...

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I enjoyed this information

I have learned a lot of useful information of analytical thinking and methods that will help me excel in life.

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A lot of perks here!

There are a lot of perks in this book. if you do understand the words used I do actually analytical thinking to comprehended the book. Sometimes, is difficult to follow do verbiage used. probably it's a good idea to follow what is said with the webpage especially when they talk about statistical analysis.

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so so

you could sum this book up with "think with facts and proven numbers, take emotion out of the equation"

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Pretty slow and boring.....

Book is very slow and fact based, still an interesting read but hard to listen and focus on long periods of the book. Still great information though!

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Unusable content and boring presentation

This is like auditing a college class on analytical thinking with some grad student who has read books and papers, but who has no practical experience. Just very forgettable jargon and theory.

Read Donna Meadows instead.

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