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Reconstructing Your Worldview: The Four Core Beliefs You Need to Solve Complex Business Problems Kindle Edition

by Bartley J. Madden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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"This fine book is a down-to-earth primer on what
every businessperson in a dynamic economy needs
to know about modern knowledge in economics,
psychology, and philosophy."

— Edmund Phelps

Columbia University

Nobel Laureate in Economics



Learning how to see through the complexity of business problems is of great consequence. The four core beliefs introduced in this book have been distilled from economics, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. They have proven to facilitate breakthrough thinking, guide continuous improvement, and shape wealth-creating strategies. Used together, they will transform your worldview—a distinct competitive advantage.
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Bartley J. Madden retired as a Managing Director of Credit Suisse/HOLT after a career in money management and investment research that included the founding of Callard Madden & Associates. His early research led to the development of the CFROI valuation framework that is used today by money management firms worldwide.

Madden's current research focuses on knowledge building and wealth creation as opposite sides of the same coin. The YouTube video "Reconstructing Your Worldview" provides insights about the four core beliefs central to this book and their application to solving complex problems. His view on the role of capitalism in making the world a better place is the subject of a forthcoming book and presented in the YouTube video "Capitalism and Management's Core Responsibilities." Additionally, his work in finance and systems thinking is summarized in his book, Wealth Creation: A Systems Mindset for Building and Investing in Businesses for the Long Term. For more on these topics visit his website www.LearningWhatWorks.com.

Madden's proposal to restructure the Food and Drug Administration is presented in his book, Free To Choose Medicine: Better Drugs Sooner at Lower Cost, which was developed in journal articles in Regulation, Cancer Biotherapy & Radiopharmaceuticals, and Medical Hypotheses. At the present time, the core Free To Choose Medicine principles of consumer choice and competition for the FDA are being implemented by various state governments via Right To Try legislation that is designed to enable patients, fighting life-threatening illnesses, to access not-yet-approved drugs.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00P3IHQ4C
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Learning What Works; 1st edition (October 31, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 31, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1490 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

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Bartley J. Madden retired as a managing director of Credit Suisse HOLT after a career in investment research and money management that included the founding of Callard Madden & Associates. His early research led to the development of the CFROI valuation framework that is used today by money-management firms worldwide.

Madden’s current research focuses on knowledge building and wealth creation as opposite sides of the same coin. For additional background information, including journal articles, op-eds, and videos, see his website http://www.LearningWhatWorks.com.

His latest book, Value Creation Thinking, focuses on how creating long-term value begins with clarity about the purpose of the firm and about management’s core responsibilities, and emphasizes the overriding importance of a knowledge-building culture. Knowledge building is the topic of his book Reconstructing Your Worldview: The Four Core Beliefs You Need to Solve Complex Business Problems. One idea concerns systems thinking and the identification of key constraints that degrade overall system performance. An application of systems thinking to public policy is reflected in Madden’s proposal to restructure the Food and Drug Administration, which is explained in his book Free To Choose Medicine: Better Drugs Sooner at Lower Cost. The fundamental principles of Free To Choose Medicine have already been implemented in Japan for regenerative medicine drugs (see http://freetochoosemedicine.com).

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Rawley Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Uniquely Connects Powerful Dots
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2014
Why should you read Bart's book? At least five reasons exist. The book:
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1. Uniquely connects four powerful dots no one has ever done before:
----a. Our past experiences shape our assumptions
----b. Our language is perception's silent partner
----c. Improve performance by identifying and fixing a system's key constraints
----d. Our behavior is control of our perceptions
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2. Provides extensive end notes for further reading and exploration
3. Uses an organization and style that brings you along to understand the complex material relatively easily with great examples (It is fun to read)
4. Portrays concepts that apply to your work, personal, and even spiritual life
5. Is short -- only about 100 pages!
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For personal comfort, strive to understand the worldview of others who challenge you. What is their "truth" that they strongly believe.
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Bart's exceptionally well done companion half-hour video on YouTube clearly demonstrates once again how important combining the visual and auditory is most effective to the communication of ideas.
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Rawley Thomas
Co-author of two books on valuation and one on the mortgage crisis
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Hunter Hastings
1.0 out of 5 stars Promising title turns out to be thin on content
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2015
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Nothing new here, and the author's purpose appears to be to promote a reform idea for the regulation of pharmaceuticals.
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Marie
5.0 out of 5 stars shows you the path
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2014
There are books you read and pass along, the good ones you keep on your bookshelf, and, among those, just a few you go back to again. This book is the latter. That's because most books have one point that is belabored in a lengthy description that takes up 7/8ths of the book. Then the solution is given in brief in 1/8th. Madden's book is 7/8ths solution, explained in many ways with many real life examples. Although subtitled "business problems," the path to solutions covers any field, and any endeavor for both business and personal problems. It's really nice when someone spends the time for us to read and distill many, many of the good books and then combine all the great thinking from many fields into one inter-disciplinary skill set that will help you along in work and in life. You will read this one slowly and carefully and go back to it as you improve your problem-solving skills. This author is like one of those very few teachers you experienced that you hung onto their every word.
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Utkan Uluçay
4.0 out of 5 stars That is what we called PARADIGM
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2014
Very good, concise.
Principles are in line with intuition and well known practices.
1. Past experience shape assumptions... This is the origin of paradigms and difficulty to change paradigms. It is "built-in"
2. Language is perception's silent partner... Again enhancing paradigm, we believe, we tell, we listen, we live in paradigm. It is "given"
3. Improve performance by identifying and fixing a system's key constraints... Complexity scares all of us, we try to slice complex systems to manage and understand and we found ourselves in cost World of local efficiencies.
4. Behavior is control of perception.... This is the end of Newton's "dead substances" era, living substances are violating Newton's principles and all other concurrent practices in economics, management,... We are in Chaos Theory era, dynamic, variable and dependent occurances..

In TOC "paradigm shift" concept brings all four principles together, shows a practical way ahead..
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Karen Hardtke
5.0 out of 5 stars Lean Thinking Explained
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2014
An excellent book. As an insurance consultant for Fortune 500 companies I found Madden's four core beliefs useful in explaining to clients complex problems in simple terms. The chapter on language as perception is worth the price of the book.

Karen Hardtke, COO, Insurance Knowledge Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2019
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Exceptional. A true diamond in the glut of management/self improvement literature.
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