Thunderbolt Thinking: Transform Your Insights & Options into Powerful Business Results (Bard Productions book) [Paperback]

Grace McGartland (Author)

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Series: Bard Productions book | Publication Date: February 3, 1994

The ideas, do-it-now action steps and cartoons propel you through this masterpiece. It will strike lightning in your life. DSMark Victor Hansen, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul

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A bout with Hodgkin's disease convinced consultant McGartland to reconfigure her life. In doing so, she invented a way to reconfigure business thinking--through "thunderbolt thinking," akin to Roger von Oech's A Whack on the Side of the Head. By following her method, energies are directed to revitalizing meetings, guaranteeing effectiveness, and injecting humor into the process. Her method could begin by asking participants to draw their brain or to imagine how to market recycled pantyhose to men. From there, she details her thunderbolt model and spirit, showing how to break through ruts in personal and business lives. Enlivened further with funky illustrations, charts, summaries, and questionnaires, her method also includes quite a bit of verbal humor. Barbara Jacobs --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 255 pages
• Publisher: Bard Press (February 3, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963278509
• ISBN-13: 978-0963278500
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,835,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars easy to read and organized., May 24, 1999

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This review is from: Thunderbolt Thinking: Transform Your Insights & Options into Powerful Business Results (Bard Productions book) (Paperback)

This book is great! It is extremely well organized, easy to read-and fun! Provides a whole new outlook on how to build a work environment that stimulates brain power and team thinking. It gives thought provoking fodder for why it's important to enhance thinking in the workplace, outlines the components of effective performance (in terms of human characteristics and qualities), and then tells you HOW to do it. I highly recommend this book if you are trying to build a more positive and creative environment.

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and Powerful Business Guide, May 20, 1999

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This review is from: Thunderbolt Thinking: Transform Your Insights & Options into Powerful Business Results (Bard Productions book) (Paperback)

This book is full of useful information that focuses on strengthening the FOUNDATIONS of teams and individuals, rather than changing the WINDOW DRESSINGS. The author believes, as I do, that developing the individual's inner strengths is the only way to achieve consistently strong results in business. This is not a new idea, but the book provides the motivation and a step-by-step process to harness its power. Use the book as a guide for transforming your team or as an occasional reference when you need an idea to give a jolt to a mundane process. I especially appreciated the section on "Thunderbolt Spirit." The idea that managers can develop the flexibility, courage, humor, awareness and spirit of action in team members has been instructive for me, and I am achieving real results through it. --T. Farrell, president & CEO, Webster Properties

2.0 out of 5 stars Good ideas. (duh), June 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Thunderbolt Thinking: Transform Your Insights & Options Into Powerful Business Results (Paperback)

This (work)book reminds me of those self-help books. "You can do better if you remember to try harder and don't give up." "Be proactive." etc.

However, there are some interesting suggestions for getting groups and teams to think together. Most of them are really cheesy (like the color of the paper its printed on), but if you can overcome your fears of being laughed at after the meeting or of any awkwardness during the meeting, then they can be good ice breaking techniques.

Stimulating groups isn't as easy as it sounds, so browse the yellow pages in the middle of the book. The rest of it you can skip.