Neurologist Antonio Damasio, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, suggests in his book Descartes' Error that emotion is critical to effective thinking and decision making.
Here on the Forbes leadership team, we get piles of books on the subject of leadership and self-improvement: A few examples from the last week or so: How to be Exceptional, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, Say It Like Obama and Win!
She gets to work with some of the world's best known companies, thanks to her professional credentials and track record, and she believes that her second career as a painter allows her to use art as a catalyst for more effective thinking among those clients.
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking isn't exactly a bestseller -- we weren't able to locate any eligible books from that list -- but it's a popular enough title, with a current rank of 1, 432 (if the rental option takes off, that position's likely to change).
Those of us involved in rolling out improvement programs that mirror failed efforts from the past are not using effective critical thinking type skills.
You cannot be an effective leader subordinating right thinking to popular thinking.
But running America requires creative thinking that produces effective solutions to new and difficult challenges.
What if our decline is due to the very impact of this kind of short term short sighted thinking on the effective management of the social and ecological resources that will increase long term prosperity?
But the thinking goes that more effective oversight will also encourage better internal controls.
This has led to deeper thinking about the most cost-effective form of compensation for outside consultants.
Maggie: In my thinking, the key elements to an effective health care system are: First, be smart about what we want.
But the truth of the matter is, the Yes on 8 Campaign, they ran a very, very effective campaign, a very effective media strategy that got a lot of people thinking about it in a different way.
Thinking before you act is possibly the most effective means of protecting yourself online.
His approach represents an important shift in thinking about disaster management, and results in effective strategies for local governance and planning.
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The secret was outsider thinking: The problem solvers on InnoCentive were most effective at the margins of their own fields.
But with age-related macular degeneration, the thinking is just the reverse: Avastin may be more cost effective than the FDA-approved drug, but may also impose some additional risks.
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We took the plastic bottle that in so many ways symbolizes all that's wrong with Dumb Planet 1.0 ways of thinking and turned it into a platform of hope by showing that it can be an effective and useful resource.
Both are thinking about the impact of existing trends, and how those will allow everyone to be more effective, efficient and successful in 3 or 5 years.
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