{"product_id":"the-thinking-gap-think-clearly-in-the-room-not-after-it-9798198523333","title":"The Thinking Gap: Think clearly. In the room. Not after it.","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anshuman Gautam\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Business Communication - Meetings \u0026amp; Presentations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe meeting satisfies nobody and you walk back to your desk. Somewhere between the conference room and the elevator, the answer arrives. The exact sentence. The framing that would have changed the room. Fully formed, perfectly clear, exactly too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou stand in the corridor holding your laptop and your lukewarm coffee and you think the sentence through twice. You know, with complete certainty, that if you had said it twenty minutes earlier the room would have moved with you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou did not say it twenty minutes earlier. You said it to yourself, alone, to no one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have ever had that walk, this book is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Thinking Gap follows Ravi through a single year of his career. He is smart, ambitious, and analytically capable. His thinking is also betraying him in ways he cannot see. He chases a vivid competitor while a quiet regional player eats his business. He spends three weeks building an elaborate analysis, then discovers a single fact that requires him to start over, and cannot bring himself to do it. He walks into a room of senior leaders with eight weeks of rigorous work and loses them in the first eleven minutes. He produces a recommendation that is analytically perfect and organisationally dead on arrival, killed by a stakeholder whose concerns he never thought to consider.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach failure is specific, recognisable, and fixable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fixes are not motivational. They are disciplines. Concrete, repeatable moves that the people on the other side of the conference table have been practising for years. Their second sentence in a discussion is sharper than your fifth. You have always assumed it was talent. It is not talent. It is Tuesday. They built the scaffolding. They use it every day. No one ever showed you how.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows you how.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will not eliminate the thinking gap. No one does. But you will learn the moves that narrow it. And the narrowing is what compounds across a career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890413944983,"sku":"9798198523333","price":853.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798198523333.webp?v=1781179924","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-thinking-gap-think-clearly-in-the-room-not-after-it-9798198523333","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}