Frequently Asked Questions
What is MindSights?
Mindsights is the first of its kind “Facilitated Thinking” product suite. Using a "thinklets" strategy, MindSights products are designed to emulate how humans provide intellectual guidance. MindSights purpose is to greatly enhance, amplify and accelerate individual and team thinking effectiveness.
Why is MindSights needed?
Traditional ways of thinking are too slow and ineffective to keep up with rapid and accelerating change.
“One of the biggest management challenges of the 21st century will be to increase knowledge-worker thinking”productivity fifty-fold, the same increase as “manual-worker labor” productivity during the 20th century. So far it has barely begun.”
-- Peter F. Drucker
How do I use MindSights products?
All MindSights products follow the same principle that underlies the selection of any manual tool: Choose the tool appropriate for the task at hand. For example, if you had a manual task that needed a pliers, you would now select the right one from over 125 differnet types of pliers that gives the best perfraomce. The same is true of thinking tasks.
What is Mentoring (Facilitated Thinking) Technology?
Facilitated Thinking Technology improves knowledge-worker thinking productivity. In much the same ways the assembly line improved manual-worker labor productivity. Just as manual-worker productivity depends on using the right labor tools, knowledge-worker productivity depends on using the right cognitive tools, called thinklets.
What are Thinklets?
Thinklets are question oriented cognitive tools that give your mind the best opportunity to find the right ideas, solutions or answers. Thinklets enhance natural human thinking effectiveness. In its purest sense a Thinklet can be as simple as asking the perfect question at the perfect time, or may provide small bursts of thinking stimuli (expert facilitation questions for example) embedded in traditional thinking techniques, templates and worksheets.
What is the MBA Mentor?
It’s no longer important how much you remember … but rather how quickly you can access relevant information and cognitive tools. These tools, called Thinklets, help improve thinking performance. MBA Mentor is a 425+ page hypertext MS Word document database. It is comprised of over 175 Thinklets and more than 500 facilitator questions.
How do I use the MBA Mentor?
Using Thinklets for knowledge-workers follows the same principle as using physical tools for manual-workers: “choose the tool appropriate for the task at hand.” Use the following steps to find the right questions to ask and best tools to use.
- Identify the thinking task that may benefit from a cognitive tool (Thinklet).
- Search the Main Menu to find your task.
- Review the recommended Thinklets (tools and facilitator questions) and “select the Thinklet(s) appropriate for your thinking task”
- Use these Thinklets to stimulate your own thinking, just as if an expert were with you.
- Since this is a normal MS Word document, customize it with your team’s or your questions.
How do the MindSights Products Compare?
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