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Excerpt from The Art of Practical Thinking: An Informal Discussion for the Intelligent Layman, With Examples Taken Mainly From the Field of Business My next thought was to do a simple outline of the things I had in mind and hold a series of informal dis cussion groups with a view to interesting people in these rules. I thought that we might, with time, spread the doctrine usefully and rather widely through the organi zation. I had (and have) an idea that it would mean extra dollars in the pay check of every individual who would go to the relatively small trouble of studying it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.