Process Thinking
We describe the second mode of dialectical thinking that we call process thinking, which in essence views entities as always being in motion. We illustrate process thinking with reference to a natural weather phenomenon, a cyclone, and then to a conceptua
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Nick Shannon Bruno Frischherz
Metathinking The Art and Practice of Transformational Thinking
Management for Professionals
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Nick Shannon • Bruno Frischherz
Metathinking The Art and Practice of Transformational Thinking
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Nick Shannon Management Psychology Ltd. London, England
Bruno Frischherz Didanet GmbH Luzern, Switzerland
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Foreword
I greet with great appreciation, inspiration and optimism this powerful work that you are about to read. It seems to me that the core commitment of the authors is to “Studying Thinking in Action”. By bringing this commitment together with a huge amount of hard work, Shannon and Frischherz have made a great leap forward in the integration of the theory and practice of dialectical thinking in a world that, as they make clear in their introduction, desperately needs it. First, they provide an accessible summary of the complementarity of what they differentiate as logical versus dialectical thinking. Whilst accessible, it reflects well their immersion in the complex history of efforts to conceptualise dialectical thin
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