Reviews
High Performance Thinking Skills
S.P.Reid
ISBN 0955270006

Stephen Reid has brought together an abundance of tips and tools to help increase mental agility and creativity. A must for anyone trying to enhance their thinking skills, and essential for anyone seeking to improve their personal and organisational performance.
Mark Jenkins Professor of Business Strategy Cranfield School of Management

‘High Performance Thinking Skills’ helps you to break out of your standard operating thinking processes, and discover the territories beyond. Highly recommended for anyone seeking guidelines for higher personal performance. Bob de Wit, Professor of Strategic Management Maastricht School Of Management

"High Performance Thinking Skills" provides a very innovative approach to improving your social and creative skills.  It is very novel in its' approach and engages and stimulates the reader with interesting 'thinking exercises'.
Professor Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University

Our world is becoming increasingly subject to radical change. To survive we need to cultivate the ability to tolerate ambiguity and to view problems from different perspectives. Stephen Reid's book shows us that thinking skills can be learnt and improved. He provides a gymnasium for the mind where we can improve our mental fitness and thrive in a world of change.
Ian Turner, Managing Director Duke Corporate Education

…a book that helps us to clear our minds and enable us to think … an important contribution … I congratulate Stephen on his work. 
Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam Judge Business School University of Cambridge

A stimulating mixture of deep thinking and very practical suggestions to improve yourself and help others. Good layout at all levels and easy to dip into and find what you want. You will know when you need this book and there isn't an alternative" Richard Walsh, Senior Strategist Association of British Insurers.

High Performance Thinking Skills Reviewed here  by the UK Chartered Intitute of Marketing

Stephen Reid invites us to expand our minds, in a series of powerful and enlightening exercises. Whilst many guides on lateral thinking can be flabby or overly academic, this book shows without fuss how the majority of us are not using our minds to their full capabilities. By implementing some fairly simple new ways of seeing things, we can increase creativity, improve logical reasoning and make more effective decisions. Reid explores some useful new territories: generalisations can be a good thing; two logical people can disagree; sometimes it’s best not to choose; saying ‘I don’t know’ can be more of a help than a hindrance. Acknowledging his debt to Tony Buzan’s Mind Maps, Reid expands these frontiers to address tough decision making and the value of using ‘bubble thinking’ – being able to hold two contradictory positions in your mind, whilst still remaining able to make a managerial decision at the end of it. Inspiring for business leaders and useful when away from the office too, this is a meaty but accessible book for anyone wanting to broaden (and deepen) their horizons.

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