There are general guidelines and attitudes and there are crystal clear step-by-step guides for group meetings and one-on-one conversations. It is a model for creating Thinking Environments, which will facilitate true thinking in all individuals. The book is about a number of things, but the central thing is a model. I'm seriously glad I did and you should too. After all, the ebook costs pracically nothing on Amazon. I know, right? It looked like nothing special, but the reviews were so glowing, I decided to give it a chance. Summary: This book is shockingly brilliant and potentially life-changing. Whether you want to have more productive meetings, solve business problems, create bold strategies or build stronger relationships, this book offers you a new world of possibilities.įrom blue chip companies developing high-powered teams to individuals seeking personal growth, a Thinking Environment has come to mean transformation of the highest quality. In this book, she describes how we can achieve this and presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation.

We must learn how to help people think for themselves. In Time to Think Nancy Kline asserts that as change proliferates in our lives and our organisations, we must prize each other's minds above all else. Listening - the quality of people's attention for each other - is the core of this method. Over the past 15 years, Nancy Kline has identified 10 behaviours that form a system called a Thinking Environment, a model of human interaction that dramatically improves the way people think, and thus the way they work and live. Most people think they listen well, but they rarely do - not at this level.

Time to Think by Hannah Barnes