This book is intended to help you enhance your common sense (your intuitive decision makingskills) as well as your critical thinking skills (your rational planning and decision-making skills).A big claim, to be certain, but undoubtedly a valid one. As you are aware, your common sense,and with it your ability to make many decisions almost intuitively with minimum thought, isvastly better today than it was when you were a teenager. Experience and learning that translateditself into better judgment and reasoning ability, accounts for this change. More precisely, newknowledge led to thought habits that became so solid that you spend hardly a moment on decisionsto which they apply. That is how common sense and judgment mature.Practicing the relatively simple formula that this book offers, and developing the habit to apply itregularly, will help you take another quantum step toward a higher level of common sense andintuitive reasoning when you develop plans and make decisions. At the same time, the book willprovide you with tools that will sharpen your ability to think about work and personal decisionsyou are facing from a more comprehensive perspective than you are probably doing now.In addition to helping with plans and decisions, the book will show you how to be an more effective leader.If you manage anything, with or without staff, are preparing for managerial responsibities as a college student, or if you seek to take amanagerial career track, this book can be of significant u...