Thinking in Systems, Speaking in Prompts

How AI Thinking Models Can Transform Human Communication, Leadership, and Problem-Solving

Better tools won’t fix broken thinking.
Better thinking fixes everything else.

AI hasn’t just changed what we can do.
It has exposed how we think.

This book is for leaders who want to build clarity, alignment, and intelligence in environments shaped by complexity, speed, and constant change.

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Book on a table - Thinking in systems, speaking in prompts, by Rick Giner

We talk constantly. We think poorly.

Teams ship confidently in the wrong direction.
Meetings produce agreement that evaporates overnight.
Smart people argue past each other, convinced the problem is obvious.

These are not communication failures.
They are reasoning failures.

We’ve spent decades optimising delivery while leaving thinking implicit, fragile, and easily distorted by power, urgency, and fear.

AI changed that.

Prompting didn’t just teach us how to talk to machines

It taught us how thinking actually works

The people who get the best results from AI aren’t better typists. They’re better thinkers. They structure reasoning. They slow it down. They branch possibilities. They surface assumptions. They separate exploration from evaluation.

Those same structures already govern human conversations. We just never named them.

Until now.

What you'll learn

  • Why machines often “think” more clearly than humans, and what that reveals
  • How AI thinking models map directly to human reasoning patterns
  • Why conversations are already prompts shaping what people can think
  • How to diagnose and fix common thinking failures in teams
  • How Nancy Kline’s Thinking Environment prevents reasoning collapse
  • How to coach individuals and teams toward better thinking
  • How to apply these models to real engineering and product work
  • How to design organisations that scale clarity, not confusionThis is not theory.

This is not theory. It is a practical operating system for modern leadership.

Who this book is for

  • Leaders
  • Engineering managers and technical leaders
  • Product leaders and cross-functional leads
  • Coaches and facilitators working with technical teams
  • Leaders navigating complexity, ambiguity, and scale
  • Anyone responsible for decisions that matter

If your job involves helping people think, decide, or align, this book is written for you.

Why this approach works

Most leadership books focus on behaviours.
Most AI books focus on tools.

This book focuses on reasoning.

It treats thinking as a system that can be designed, debugged, coached, and scaled. It combines the precision of AI thinking models with the humanity of environments that allow people to think well together.

The result is not faster answers. It’s better questions, better decisions, and better outcomes.

Thinking is the real leverage

Every question is a prompt.
Every meeting is a thinking system.
Every leader designs reasoning, whether they intend to or not.

This book helps you do it deliberately.

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