Tim hurson brings productive thinking out of the closet and presents it in a way that makes it easy for anyone to grasp and use so you can think better, work better, and do better in every aspect of your life. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading think better. There are a lot of new books on innovative thinking, or just innovation in general, so i was a little leery of another book, but i found this one to be very insightful and useful. If you want to learn how to engage in productive thinking, tim hurson is the guy to teach you how. He was born in johannesburg, south africa, and grew up in new york city, usa. I applied it to a business problem i was facing as i read through it and i found it both practical and effective. While think better will definitely appeal to people who consider themselves innovators, the wisdom contained in its pages can be applied by ordinary folks too. Whether you need to solve business problems, create new opportunities, or improve your personal life, think better offers the principles and tools you need. But what if the less time you spend trying to close, the more time you can devote to helping people solve problems and seize opportunities. Its one of the only innovation books ive come across that actually shows you how. Discover book depositorys huge selection of tim hurson books online. Throughout his career, tim has helped global corporations solve problems and seize opportunities. Productive thinking is a game changer a practical, easytolearn, repeatable process that helps people.
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He says that by applying his methods, anyone can reliably come up with fresh ideas and solutions. I particularly enjoyed the notion that simple twine around an elephants leg will be enough to keep said elephant in. Tim hurson is a motivational speaker and creativity theorist. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read think better. The focus of the this book is on the thinkx productive thinking model ptm, developed by hurson and his colleagues after rigorously evaluating a hurson explains that the premise of this book is that success in our business, professional, and personal lives is less a matter of what we know than of how we think. Learn how to think better by using productive thinking approaches with tim hursons book think better an innovators guide to productive thinking. An innovators guide to productive thinking and this conversation is part of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of that book, which you can pick it up right now on amazon. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. If you wish to become a better creative thinker or strategic planner then you simply must own a copy of author tim hurson s think better. Dont let the title of tim hursons book scare you away. Anyone can learn to think better in other words, more creatively and productively.
He was educated at the peddie school in hightstown, new jersey, and went to college at oberlin college in ohio. Never be closing describes how to use productive thinking to enhance sales relationships, with positive results for both. As an executive with 4 decades of corporate and entrepreneurial work history i can report with great ease that think better is smartest book i have read on creative thinking. Tim is also a founding director of facilitators without borders, a notforprofit offering the same services to charitable organizations and communities in need. And thats exactly what tim hursons think better summary is about. An innovators guide to productive thinking, tim hurson teaches a stepbystep process for dealing with big challenges. The book offers a host of new ideas and practical advice for everyone in an organization.
Think better and never be closing cowritten with tim dunne. He has written two paradigmshifting books, think better and never be closing. Speaker and consultant tim hurson presents 12 techniques that benefit both the seller and the client never be closing expands on the principles of tim hurson s first book, think better, to teach salespeople how to improve their strategy and sell anything to anyone using a simple, repeatable framework. Tim hurson born 1946 is a speaker, writer and creativity theorist living in toronto, ontario, canada.
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