Retrain Your Business Brain: Outsmart the Corporate Competition [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Donalee Markus (Author), Lindsey Markus (Author), Pat Taylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 28, 2003

Everyone talks about thinking ""outside of the box"", but no one teaches how —until now. In her new book Retrain Your Business Brain: Outsmarting the Corporate Competition, Dr. Markus presents 101 original, visual perception and context-free puzzles that can actually change the way employees integrate information, opening the door to an unlimited number of new possibilities. These puzzles represent the prerequisites for thinking, and readers will walk away with ways they can improve their “brain elasticity.”

In Retrain Your Business Brain, restructuring expert and business consultant Donalee Markus, Ph.D., presents a challening new approach that will result in reenergized business decisions and practices.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; illustrated edition edition (July 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079317015X
• ISBN-13: 978-0793170159
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,749,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, November 6, 2003

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"bigguerns" (Woodbridge, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Retrain Your Business Brain: Outsmart the Corporate Competition (Paperback)

I thoroughly enjoyed the book--well, at least when my brain wasn't hurting too much. This book does an excellent job of forcing you to not only solve rather difficult puzzles, but also to understand how to solve them (for some types I found myself getting them right without actually knowing what I was doing) and why you find them difficult. Markus, et al. explain the applications of the thought processes required for the puzzles to business and the symptoms of not doing so correctly. I would highly recommend it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review from Entrepreneur Magazine, December 4, 2003

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This review is from: Retrain Your Business Brain: Outsmart the Corporate Competition (Paperback)

Want to feel dumb? Then just take a look at Retrain Your Business Brain, and try one of the 101 problems inside. Donalee Markus, Lindsey Paige Markus and Pat Taylor designed these visual and verbal puzzles to force open new mental pathways. If pain leads to gain, they've done it, because you'll feel as if your mind is being stretched, bent and twisted. It's like yoga for your brain.

The authors claim that leaders and employees who work their way through the book become better at solving business problems and spotting opportunities; they even promise to turn detail-oriented people into big-picture thinkers. They walk you through solutions, coaching you to color-code and label problem elements, create categories and apply other problem-solving tools. By the final chapter--in which you decipher an ancient Babylonian numbering system without the use of a decoder ring--you'll never approach a problem the same way again, whether it's unraveling a market trend or trying to develop a new product.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One star or five star, depends!, October 24, 2006

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ServantofGod - See all my reviews

This review is from: Retrain Your Business Brain: Outsmart the Corporate Competition (Paperback)

In this book you will have to deal with tons of puzzles, primarily of the visual, complete the progression type you find in GMAT (the GMAT puzzles are of the kindergarten level compared to those here). If you enjoy solving puzzles and believe that it can help to improve your IQ (that the authors do diagnose detailedly about your problem solving process which is definitely a plus), you will be highly satisfied. In case you simply get dizzy by looking at them like what my wife does, please give it a pass.

p.s. The five star rating is given to appreciate the effort of the authors for putting the large amount of extremely difficult and diverse puzzles in a 260 page book.