{"product_id":"book-ekjz","title":"Think Talk Create","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a time of unusual stress, with a pandemic raging and economic insecurity and dislocation increasing, we need to rediscover the values that make us human, that give us a sense of meaning in order to increase our potential for productivity and success. What stands in the way, however, is a professional culture where human connectedness is a lost art: the frenzied numbers-obsessed, bottom-line thinking, the \"scratch and claw\" workplace, and organizations where the boss can literally be an algorithm.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Through moving stories and a modern spin on the ancient framework of Socratic dialogue, David Brendel and Ryan Stelzer show how to move forward and build workplaces fit for humans through what uniquely defines us as human beings: our ability to think, talk, and create.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e By thinking carefully about a challenge, engaging peers in dialogue via open-ended questioning, and building a strategy collaboratively. \u003ci\u003eThink Talk Create\u003c\/i\u003e enables us to cultivate trust and define collective values, seemingly \"soft\" attributes that nonetheless markedly increase innovation and, ultimately, financial performance.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Think: Step back, slow down, avoid impulsive, short-sighted decision making.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Talk: Ask non-judgmental, open ended questions, with your mind as a blank slate, pursuing the problem like an empirical scientist or a judge presiding in court.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Create: Bring something new and meaningful into play, a novel solution to a pesky problem that can move the world in surprising, positive directions.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49348785176880,"sku":"BDekjz","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/290565-ekjz-Square.jpg?v=1734233958","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ekjz","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}