Think Smart, Work Smarter: A Practical Guide to Solving Problems Faster, Making Better Decisions, and Improving Your Effectiveness Through Thinking Smarter
- 2h 10m
- Tremaine Du Preez
- Marshall Cavendish
- 2011
Your mind produces up to 70,000 thoughts a day— most of which are responsible for decision making. These decisions determine your success both professionally and personally. Tremaine du Preez fills this book with new and proven strategies that will turn making the right decision into a breeze and leave no problem too difficult to handle.
About the Author
Tremaine du Preez is a leadership coach and head of learning and development for The Leadership Consultancy, a boutique coaching and training consultancy based in Singapore.
Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, she has developed an approach to leadership and human capital development that fuses the best of Eastern, Western and African ideas. She is a sought after trainer and speaker in strategic management, emotional intelligence and critical thinking, and offers a rich depth of knowledge in these areas.
Participants who attend her workshops on critical thinking continually inspire her to find new, and fun, ways of making academic and high level ideas as accessible as possible. She firmly believes that everyone should benefit from the research and advances in mankind’s understanding of how to use our minds to their full potential.
Tremaine has a master’s degree in Financial Economics from the University of London, a Bachelor of Commerce in Informatics and is certified in Neuro-Semantics. She has lived in Asia for seven years, and works throughout the region helping senior executives, government officials and other leaders develop their leadership, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
In this Book
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Think Smart, Work Smarter—A Practical Guide to Solving Problems Faster, Making Better Decisions, and Improving Your Effectiveness Through Thinking Smarter
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Preface
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Introduction
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Assess Yourself
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Effective Decision Making is Vital for Your Success
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Getting on Top of Information Overload
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Making the Most of Your Personal Thinking Tools
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Harnessing Emotions in Decision Making
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The Mental Bloopers That We All Make
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Comfort Zone Thinking
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Creativity Produces Better Solutions and Breakthroughs
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Visual Tools for Problem Solving
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Practical Problem Solving for Teams
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Creating and Sharing Your Decision-Making Strategy
