Karl Albrecht's bestselling book Social Intelligence
showed us how dealing with people and social situations can
determine success both at work and in life. Now, in this
groundbreaking book Practical Intelligence, Albrecht takes
the next step and explains how practical intelligence (PI)
qualifies as one of the key life skills and offers a conceptual
structure for defining and describing common sense.
Throughout Practical Intelligence, Albrecht explains that
people with practical intelligence can employ language skills, make
better decisions, think in terms of options and possibilities,
embrace ambiguity and complexity, articulate problems clearly and
work through to solutions, have original ideas, and influence the
ideas of others. Albrecht shows that everyone's PI skills can
be improved with proper education and training and challenges all
of us--from parents and teachers to executives and
managers--to upgrade our own skills and help others develop
their own PI abilities.
Autorentext
Karl Albrecht is a management consultant, executive advisor, futurist, speaker, and author. As chairman of Karl Albrecht International, he oversees the practical application of his ideas through consulting, seminars, and publishing. He is a prolific writer and the author of the bestselling Service America!, The Northbound Train, Brain Power, The Power of Minds At Work, and Social Intelligence.
Zusammenfassung
Karl Albrecht's bestselling book Social Intelligence showed us how dealing with people and social situations can determine success both at work and in life. Now, in this groundbreaking book Practical Intelligence, Albrecht takes the next step and explains how practical intelligence (PI) qualifies as one of the key life skills and offers a conceptual structure for defining and describing common sense.
Throughout Practical Intelligence, Albrecht explains that people with practical intelligence can employ language skills, make better decisions, think in terms of options and possibilities, embrace ambiguity and complexity, articulate problems clearly and work through to solutions, have original ideas, and influence the ideas of others. Albrecht shows that everyone's PI skills can be improved with proper education and training and challenges all of usfrom parents and teachers to executives and managersto upgrade our own skills and help others develop their own PI abilities.
Inhalt
Preface.
About the Author.
1. A Problem and an Opportunity.
Accidental Intelligence:The Terminal Assumption.
The Widening Smart Gap.
The Dumbing of America and the Culture of Amusement.
Knows and Know-Nots:The New Social Divide.
Who Cares? Who Needs to Care?
2. Multiple Intelligences: The Possible Human.
IQ Doesn't Tell the Whole Story.
There Are at Least Six Kinds of Smart.
Building Out: Applying Theories to Everyday Life.
Build-Out 1: Emotional Intelligence.
Build-Out 2: Social Intelligence.
The Next Build-Out: Practical Intelligence.
3. What Is Practical Intelligence?
Thinking Is a Bodily Function.
MeetYour Biocomputer.
Brain Cycles, Brainwaves, Brain States, and the Daily Trance .
Mindmodules:You Have Many Minds.
Mindmodels:Your Portable Reality.
Four Habits That Unlock Your Mental Capacity.
Four Dimensions of PI:Your Mega-Skills.
Getting Started: Upgrading Your Mental Software.
4. Mental Software Upgrade 1: Developing Mental Flexibility.
Are You a Finished Product?
Dynamic Thinking and Archaic Thinking.
You Might Be a Mental Redneck . . .
The Creative Paradox.
The Beginner's Mind: Innocence and Humility.
The Plexity Scale.
There Is No TruthOnly Your Truth, His Truth, Her Truth,Their Truth . . .
How I Learned to Stop Arguing with People.
A New Way to Think About Opinions.
Three Phrases That Can Keep Your Mind Open.
5. Mental Software Upgrade 2: Adopting Affirmative Thinking.
Cleaning Out the Attic: Mental Decontamination.
Sensorship: Choosing What You Will Allow intoYour Mind.
Resistance to Enculturation, a.k.a.Crap Detecting.
Cleanse Your Mind with a Media Fast.
Re-EngineeringYour Attitudes.
The Attitude of Gratitude.
The Attitude of Abundance.
Practical Altruism.
Meditation, Mindmovies, and Affirmations.
6. Mental Software Upgrade 3: Adopting Sane Language Habits.
Language as Mental Software:What You Say.
Is What You Think.
How Language Packages Your Thoughts.
Jumping to Confusions: Inferential Thinking.
Clean and Dirty Language: Strategies for Semantic Sanity.
Expressions You Can Remove from Your Vocabulary.
The Self-Conversation: Cleaning Up Your Internal Dialog.
Snappy Comebacks:The Language of Funny.
7. Mental Software Upgrade 4: Valuing Ideas.
Do You Have Lots of Good Ideas? (Almost Everyone Does).
It Slipped My Mind . . . (Almost Everything Does).
The Greatest Thinking Tool Ever Invented.
Thinking in Pictures.
Are You a Yes-Person or a No-Person?
The P.I.N. Formula: Protecting Ideas.
Using Your Magical Incubator.
Metaboxical Thinking: Breaking the Boundaries.
8. Mega-Skill 1: Bivergent Thinking.
The Divergent-Convergent Polarity:The D-C Axis.
Process Consciousness: Managing the Pivot Point.
Groupthink:The Collusion to Fail Brainstorming: More Often Talked About Than Done Systematic Creativity:The Balancing Act.
9. Mega-Skill 2: Helicopter Thinking.
The Abstract-Concrete Polarity:The A-C Axis.
Visionaries and Actionaries:We Need Both.
Connecting the Dots:You Have to See Them to Connect Them.
Painting the Big Picture: Mindmapping.
Explaining the Big Picture: Using the Language of Ideas
10. Mega-Skill 3: Intulogical Thinking
The Logical-Intuitive Polarity:The L-I Axis
Thinking Styles:Yours and Others'
Sequential Thinking: Re-Owning Your Logical Abilities
TrustingYour Hunches: Re-OwningYour Intuitive Abilities
The Zen Mind: Flo...