You've Got To Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think
You've Got to Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think is a thoughtful and accessible analysis of the ways in which jokes illustrate how we think critically, and how the thinking process goes awry in everyday human situations Uses jokes to illustrate the various mistakes or fallacies that are typically identified and discussed in courses on critical reasoning Provides an effective way to learn critical thinking skills since jokes often describe real-life situations where it really matters whether a person thinks well or not
What If? Short Stories to Spark Diversity Dialogue
He adds tips and suggestions for putting key learning into action, ending each chapter with questions, an assignment to inspire you to be more open-minded and to disvoer how the ideas presented in the book might apply to your daily life at work and at home. If you're interested in more information on how you or your company can become more aware of your subtle biases and how to change them, consider Robbins' book "What If?"
Big Think Strategy: How to Leverage Bold Ideas and Leave Small Thinking Behind
Business leaders need bold strategies to stay relevant and win. In Big Think Strategy, Schmitt shows how to bring bold thinking into your business by sourcing big ideas and executing them creatively. With the tools in this book, any leader can overcome institutionalized small think the inertia, the narrow-mindedness, and the aversion to risk that block true innovation. Your reward? Big, bold, and decidedly doable strategies that excite your employees and leave your rivals scrambling.
Modern life is filled with frustrations — too much work, too many interruptions, not enough personal time, and an increasing sense of losing control and meaning. Aligned Thinking offers a simple, sensible remedy. The key lies in three questions: "How do I get the most from the only thing I control — my actions now?"; "With the many options I have, how do I stay focused on what I really want?"; and "What do I really want from life and work?"
Duck on a BikeWhen Duck gets the zany idea to ride a bike one day, each animal on the farm has a reaction. "M-o-o-o," says Cow. But what she's really thinking is, "A duck on a bike? That's the silliest thing I've ever seen!" Pig and Pig say "Oink," thinking all the while, "Duck is such a show-off!" But it's not until a crew of kids shows up and leaves their bikes lying about that the true feelings of all the animals come to light, and for one brief, glorious moment, the farm is a mad, mad world of two-wheeling road hogs (and chickens and horses and goats).(Ages 4 to 8)
