Think! : Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye Michael R. LeGault,
Publisher: Threshold Editions
ISBN: 1416523782
Edition: Hardcover; 2006-01-03
Summary:
This isn't the time to Blink.It's time toTHINK!-- before it's too
late.Outraged by the downward spiral of American intellect and
culture, Michael R. LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm
Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, Blink, which theorized that our
best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or
critical analysis. If bestselling books are advising us to not think,
LeGault argues, it comes as no surprise that sharp, incisive
reasoning has become a lost art in the daily life of Americans.
Somewhere along the line, the Age of Reason morphed into the Age of
Emotion; this systemic erosion is costing time, money, jobs, and
lives in the twenty-first century, leading to less fulfillment and
growing dysfunction. LeGault provides a bold, controversial, and
objective analysis of the causes and solutions for: the erosion of
growth and market share at many established American companies, big
and small, which appear to have less chance of achieving the dynamic
expansion of the past permissive parenting and low standards that
have caused an academic crisis among our children -- body weights
rise while grades plummet America's growing political polarization,
which is a result of our reluctance to think outside our comfort
zone faulty planning and failure to act on information at all levels
that has led to preventable disasters, such as the Hurricane Katrina
meltdown a culture of image and instant gratification, fed by
reality shows and computer games, that has rendered curiosity of the
mind and spirit all but obsolete stress, aversion to taking risks,
and therapy that are replacing the traditional American "can do"
mind-set.Far from perpetuating the stereotype of the complacent
American, LeGault's no-holds-barred analysis asks more of us than any
other societal overview: America can fulfill its greatest potential
starting today, and we need smart teachers, smart health care
workers, smart sales representatives, smart students, smart
mechanics, and smart leaders to make it happen. Now is the time to
THINK! -- because a mind truly is a terrible thing to waste.
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