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A Spy's Guide to Thinking

By: John Braddock
Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
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"Head wounds bleed. All those vessels going to the brain. Carrying nutrients so you can think. Which I hadn't...I was stunned. But I hadn't lost yet. I still had the phone. And two options."

There are a select few people who get things done. Spies are first among them.

In this 45-minute listen, a former spy introduces two simple tools for thinking. The first describes how we think. The second helps us think ahead. They are the essential tools for getting things done.

The tools are applied to an incident in a subway car in Europe where a spy faces a new enemy. Then, they're reapplied to Saddam Hussein's stockpiling (or not) of weapons of mass destruction.

John Braddock was a case officer at the CIA. He developed, recruited and handled sources on weapons proliferation, counter-terrorism, and political-military issues. A former university research fellow, he is now a strategy consultant. He helps people and organizations think more effectively about their strategy, their customers, and their competition.

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John offers an expansion pack to your reasoning framework, delivered and paced diligently with tales from the field.

Upgrade your reasoning software.

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I enjoyed this but wish it had included just one more chapter working through the Data-Analysis-Decison-Action loop once more using another situational example. The single situation provided was interesting but brief and somewhat unsatisfying by not being followed by a different situation applying the same process.

Good but high level into.

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short, concise, good info. looking forward to the release of the next book.

10/10 would read again

good book is good

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