Thinking Into The Corners - Quick Guides for Managers

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Woodstone Press Books for Business Success Get Results. Get Attention. Get Ahead. by Michel Theriault As a Business Consultant, Michel Theriault also writes and speaks about strategy, leadership and management topics. Contact him at [email protected] Quick Guides Build on your technical skills, education and practical knowledge with strategies you can use to leverage results. for Managers About Quick Guides for Managers This series is specially designed for busy or aspiring Managers. It delivers quick, easy to read techniques and approaches you can apply on the job to get better results. Thinking Into The Corners TM Thinking outside the box doesn’t work. We all need an anchor for our ideas (the Box). At the same time, we have internal limits (the Circle) prevent- ing us from stretching outside our comfort zone to develop ideas and discover solutions that should be obvious. Combining the Box and the Circle shows the corners where ideas are hidden or we haven’t reached yet. There’s no need to try thinking outside of the box when the solutions are within reach. Learn how to Think into the Cor- ners to get results. Quick Points Learn how to define the limits of your Box. Understand how to expand those limits. Discover the internal limits and filters Find out how to mitigate the limits and filters. Reach into the Corners to find new ideas and solutions. Stop Thinking Outside The Box. When options are limitless, you'll miss the obvious. Instead, stretch yourself and your staff to find the valuable solutions waiting in the corners. Guide # 2 Soft Cover 5" x 8" 125 Pages ISBN # 978-0-9813374-8-7 eBook available from successfuelformanagers.com Paperback available from Amazon Corporate, Wholesale and Academic discounts are available direct from the publisher. Contact [email protected] www.woodstonepress.com When you Think Outside The Box your canvas is too large to anchor great ideas. Your thinking gets spread thinly in an infinite space instead of focusing on the practical solutions.

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Woodstone PressBooks for Business Success

Get Results. Get Attention. Get Ahead.by Michel Theriault

As a Business Consultant, Michel Theriault also writes and speaks about strategy, leadership and management topics.

Contact him at [email protected]

Quick Guides

Build on your technical skills, education and practical knowledge with strategies you can use to leverage results.

for Managers

AboutQuick Guides for ManagersThis series is specially designed for busy or aspiring Managers. It delivers quick, easy to read techniques and approaches you can apply on the job to get better results.

Thinking Into The CornersTM

Thinking outside the box doesn’t work. We all need an anchor for our ideas (the Box).At the same time, we have internal limits (the Circle) prevent-ing us from stretching outside our comfort zone to develop ideas and discover solutions that should be obvious.Combining the Box and the Circle shows the corners where ideas are hidden or we haven’t reached yet.There’s no need to try thinking outside of the box when the solutions are within reach. Learn how to Think into the Cor-ners to get results.

Quick Points ► Learn how to defi ne the limits of your Box. ► Understand how to expand those limits. ► Discover the internal limits and fi lters ► Find out how to mitigate the limits and fi lters. ► Reach into the Corners to fi nd new ideas and solutions.

Stop Thinking Outside The Box. When options are limitless, you'll miss the obvious. Instead, stretch yourself and your staff to fi nd the valuable solutions waiting in the corners.

Guide#2

Soft Cover 5" x 8" 125 PagesISBN # 978-0-9813374-8-7

eBook available from successfuelformanagers.comPaperback available from Amazon

Corporate, Wholesale and Academic discounts are availabledirect from the publisher. Contact [email protected]

www.woodstonepress.com

When you Think Outside

The Box your canvas is too large to anchor

great ideas.

Your thinking gets spread thinly in an infi nite space

instead of focusing on the practical

solutions.