What is a professional executive's most fundamental responsibility?To be a professional thinker and a professional manager of other thinkers.Which management skill is, however, most neglected because for reasons of misguided priorities, arrogance, or even sloth-it is most taken for granted?Thinking.Are the thought processes that an executive must follow the same as those of the scientist or mathematician?Not at all.Which kind of thinking must an executive use and perfect?Decision-thinking.From now on, given the problems of complexity, uncertainty, and sudden change with which any executive must cope, executives cannot be considered professional executives until they first become professional decision- thinkers, surrounding themselves with com- petent decision-thinkers.How one becomes a professional decision- thinker is the subject of this challenging and pioneering new book-a book that will help all executives to improve their performance. ISBN: 9780396092032