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Look: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills

Look: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills

By James H Gilmore

Inspired by Edward de Bono's six thinking hats method, the author has created a tool to help our ability to perceive. In this book, he introduces the metaphor of "six looking glasses. " The six skills include binoculars, bifocals, magnifying glass, microscope, rose-colored blasses, and blindfold looking.

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Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
Publish Date: 08/23/2016
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781626342996
ISBN-10: 1626342997
Language: English

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Mastering the Way You See the World ​Inspired by Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats method, Jim Gilmore has created a unique and useful tool to help our ability to perceive. In his latest book, Look: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills, Gilmore introduces the metaphor of "six looking glasses." Each looking glass represents a particular skill to master in order to enhance the way we look at the world. The six skills include binoculars, bifocals, magnifying glass, microscope, rose-colored glasses, and blindfold looking. Each looking glass provides an observational lens through which to see the world differently. This framework will help its users to: - See the big picture
- Overcome personal bias
- Pinpoint significance
- Better scrutinize numerous details
- Uncover potential opportunities
- See what's in the mind's eye These varying perspectives offer myriad practical applications: They can help any executive, manager, or designer more richly observe customer behavior, philanthropists and policy makers more keenly identify human needs, and anyone else interested in innovative thinking to first ground their ideation in practical observation. Gilmore helps readers grasp the Six Looking Glasses by including helpful everyday examples and practice exercises throughout. Put into practice, this method of looking will help you see the world with new eyes.

About the Author

Jim Gilmore is co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, based in Aurora, Ohio. He is a Batten fellow and adjunct lecturer at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, where he teaches a course on the Experience Economy. Gilmore is a visiting lecturer in Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, where he teaches a course on cultural hermeneutics.

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