A Spys Guide to Thinking

Posted on 22 July 2018 by John Braddock

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 a 45 minute read, 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 effectively about their strategy, their customers and the competition. Free Download Kindle ePUB A Spys Guide to Thinking By John Braddock – kino-fada.fr There s a moderately interesting story in here, about how the author handles a potentially violent encounter on a subway He wants to show us how he uses a particular type of thinking to make his decisions during the encounter.And then he spends a whole chapter of an already short book relitigating the goddamn bogus WMD claims that were used to justify the Iraq war Spoiler alert It wasn t the CIA s fault No Really USA USA This whatever this is because it isn t a book could be an There s a moderately interesting story in here, about how the author handles a potentially violent encounter on a subway He wants to show us how he uses a particular type of thinking to make his decisions during the encounter.And then he spends a whole chapter of an already short book relitigating the goddamn bogus WMD claims that were used to justify the Iraq war Spoiler alert It wasn t the CIA s fa...Either it s me or it s too simplistic Whatever Lot s of obvious things, little depth Q Intelligence agencies start with the decision Like scientists start with the hypothesis c It s called cherry picking.Q Thinking is cheap Acti...The subjectSpy s Guide to thinking offers a framework for effective thinking which is based on experiences of a field spy John Braddock I guess this is the guy who convinced white house of Iraq s possession of weapons of mass destruction, hence igniting the war.The bookThe book is organized in four concise chapters I How to thinkII What to think aboutIII How others thinkIV How to think about othersHow to thinkAuthor teaches the structure of effective thinking which is the foundation of de The subjectSpy s Guide to thinking offers a framework for effective thinking which is based on experiences of a field spy John Braddock I guess this is the guy who convinced white house of Iraq s possession of weapons of mass destruction, hence igniting the war.The bookThe book is organized in four concise chapters I How to thinkII What to think aboutIII How others thinkIV How to think about othersHow to thinkAuthor teaches the structure of effective thinking which is the foundation of decision making from small levels as individua...Interesting reading Free if you havePrime Not a lot of actual spy information but it s obvious the author is knowledgeable on the subject either by study or by actual employment as a spy What if found the most interesting is the critical thinking steps the aut...This was well written using an interesting back and forth literary device and fun A book about thinking, zero sum, negative sum, and positive sum games, told through the eyes of a former CIA agent How you play all the other games depends on what kind of game is the final game.Lacks depth, volumeLessons and insights are shallow Light content Written as a stream of consciousness Topic is intriguing however content is poor Book isof a chapter than it is a bookNo wonder it is trending on Goodreads Short and Sharp A must read.I guess what he has written is pretty obvious but it is the way he has chosen to write the book that keeps you hooked The DADA and the three games Awesome.Reading this book only confirmed my hypothesi...Interesting point of view The thing I most took from this book is, that some people overthink things Not a bad thing, but if you re not trained to think fast, you ll end up being a passive observer in most situations, if you try to adapt this approach.The 45 minute read could have been condensed to 45 words Or less A lot less Most of the text was devoted to a self congratulatory experience with a tweaker on a train trying to snag the author s phone I think it was supposed to illustrate how well his DADA system of thinking works, except that it didn t He was surprised several times when the druggie didn t conform to his expectations go figure This is the only work I ve read by Braddock, so I don t know if any of the others hold any val The 45 minute read could have been condensed to 45 words Or less A lot less Most of the text was devoted to a self congratulatory experience with a tweaker on a train trying to snag the author s phone I think it was supposed to illustrate how well his DADA system of thinking works, except that it didn t He was surprised several times when the druggie didn t conform to his expectations go figure This is the only work I ve read by Braddock, so I don ...RepetitiveCould have been boiled down to 5 pages The repetition of the data analysis decision action and the three types of games zero sum, positive and negative hardly needed to be broken down into such a way that made it understandable to a three ...

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22 July 2018

John Braddock