Think Smart--ACT Smart: Avoiding the Business Mistakes That Even Intelligent People Make

by J. Nightingale

Praise For Think Smart--Act Smart Avoiding the Business Mistakes That Even Intelligent People Make "Increased productivity and optimizing efficiencies...start with this book. Think Smart--Act Smart is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470171294
• ISBN13: 9780470171295
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

FANTASTIC!

Problem solving, mistakes, leadership, decision-making based on the right information...this book has it all. Well written, well thought-out and-believe it or not-all this with a great sense of humor. To this add all the interesting examples (one particularly bone-chilling). I learned quite a bit. Buy this book!

At this time in America...

...this book is an eye-opener. Although the examples from history, business, and science are enough to prove each of his points, the real worth of Nightingale's ideas is the way they illuminate and explain what is happening around us in early 2008 in the arenas of politics, finance, and religion. If he were to update this brand-new book in a year, he'd have plenty of current events to slot into the chapters on wishful, mythical, tribal, and royal thinking traps. I'm a former educator, and I know this book would be a great resource in that world. It is easy reading and filled with detailed and clear "case studies."

Superb

i read a good deal of "strategic planning" material, being a consultant of sorts. this one is a great read, not overtly intellectual and self-serving as many in this genre turn out to be. the case work selection is spot on and they illustrate what the author is describing here - the need to avoid decision making processes that are not based in logic and common sense.

Excellent!

Nightingale clearly and thoroughly outlines steps in order to make more unique decisions in order to actively increase productivity of a complex organization. Since receiving this book, not only have I personally benefitted, using it as my personal guide, but my customers have as well; I have passed it on to the c-level at all of my clients with great reception. Great read!

Buying this book was certainly NOT a mistake!

Nightingale depicts the intriguing mistakes made by important scientists, government leaders, and business managers, and yet finds a common thread of underlying psychological forces to weave them altogether. The anecdotes in each of his four categories--thinking, mythical thinking, tribal thinking, and royal thinking--bring you into the mind of his subjects so the reader can really understand how someone could have made the mistakes they did. Nightingale accurately depicts the thought processes and mindsets and puts them into a digestible framework for his readers to learn from and enjoy. Nightingale's book is witty, engaging, and an unusually enjoyable read on this subject. This is a very useful book for all of us who make decisions for a living.