
Think Smarter
Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-solving and Decision-making Skills
By: Michael Kallet
Hardcover | 28 March 2014 | Edition Number 1
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Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills is the comprehensive guide to training your brain to do more for you. Written by a critical thinking trainer and coach, the book presents a pragmatic set of tools to apply critical thinking techniques to everyday business issues. Think Smarter is filled with real world examples that demonstrate how the tools work in action, in addition to dozens of practice exercises applicable across industries and functions, Think Smarter is a versatile resource for individuals, managers, students, and corporate training programs.
Thinking is the foundation of everything you do, but we rely largely on automatic thinking to process information, often resulting in misunderstandings and errors. Shifting over to critical thinking means thinking purposefully using a framework and toolset, enabling thought processes that lead to better decisions, faster problem solving, and creative innovation. Think Smarter provides clear, actionable steps toward improving your critical thinking skills, plus exercises that clarify complex concepts by putting theory into practice. Features include:
- A comprehensive critical thinking framework
- Over twenty-five "tools" to help you think more critically
- Critical thinking implementation for functions and activities
- Examples of the real-world use of each tool
Learn what questions to ask, how to uncover the real problem to solve, and mistakes to avoid. Recognize assumptions your can rely on versus those without merit, and train your brain to tick through your mental toolbox to arrive at more innovative solutions. Critical thinking is the top skill on the wish list in the business world, and sharpening your ability can have profound affects throughout all facets of life. Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills provides a roadmap to more effective and productive thought.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Section I: Introduction and the Framework for Critical Thinking
Chapter 1: What is Critical Thinking?
Benefits of Critical Thinking
Chapter 2: When to Use Critical Thinking
Chapter 3: The Framework and Tools
Clarity
Conclusions
Decisions
Section II: Clarity
Chapter 4: Empty Your Bucket
The Bucket
Getting Started with Emptying Your Bucket
Chapter 5: Inspection
Inspection
Getting Started with Inspection
Chapter 6: Why?
Why Why?
Ask why to get to I don’t know
Getting Started with Why
Chapter 7: So What?
So What?
So What: Your Company or Product
YOUR So What?
Getting Started with So What
Chapter 8: Need
What is the Necessity?
Great Teams and Need
Need and Survival
Getting Started with Need
Chapter 9: Anticipatory Thinking
What’s Next?
Getting Started with Anticipatory Thinking
Chapter 10: What Else?
What Else Could This Be?
Getting Started with What Else
Chapter 11: The Ingredient Diagram
Ingredients of Your Headscratcher
Getting started with the Ingredient Diagram
Chapter 12: Vision
What is Your Vision?
Getting Started with Vision
Chapter 13: The Thinking Coach
The Role of a Thinking Coach
Why Be a Thinking Coach?
Examples of a Thinking Coach
If You Have the Experience, Why Not Communicate That?
Ten Rules of a Thinking Coach
Getting Started with Being a Thinking Coach
Section III: Conclusions
Chapter 14: Summary of Clarity
Clarity - Getting Clear about Your Headscratcher
Getting Started
Practice
Clarity - Not About Solving the Problem, but Generates Solutions
When Am I Done with Clarity?
Can I Use Critical Thinking by Myself and Not with a Group?
Chapter 15: It’s all about The Premise
Deduction
Induction
It’s All About the Premise
Chapter 16: Facts
Facts are Absolute Truth
Use so what with facts
Fact or Not Fact
Chapter 17: Observations
Observations are Abundant
Chapter 18: Experiences
Your Experiences
So What?
Chapter 19: Beliefs
Beliefs - Your Value System
When Beliefs Are Different
Chapter 20: Assumptions
Assumptions are Key
Chapter 22: Credibility
How Credible is the Premise?
Credibility of Facts and Observations
Why Do People Lose Credibility?
Getting Started with Credibility
Chapter 23: Consistency
The Consistency of Your Premise Components
Getting Started with Consistency
Chapter 24: Triangular Thinking
Triangular Thinking: Estimating the Unknown
Getting Started with Triangular Thinking
Chapter 25: Change
The Premise and Change
Helping People Get Over Change
Getting Started with Change
Chapter 26: Influencing and Persuading
Influence and Persuasion
Using the Premise to Influence
Using the Premise to Persuade
Maybe you need to be persuaded?
Getting Started with Influencing and Persuading
Section: IV Conclusions and Innovation
Chapter 27: Outside-the-Box Thinking
Ask What If and What Other
Getting Started with Thinking Outside-the-Box
Chapter 28: Abductive Thinking
Abductive Thinking
Old Dog Thinking
Knowledge with No Experience
Old Dog Thinking Cures
Getting Started with Abductive Thinking
Chapter 29: Impossible Thinking
Thinking How to Accomplish the Impossible
Getting Started with Impossible Thinking
Exercises for Impossible Thinking
Chapter 30: Summary of Conclusions
Conclusions – Creating Solutions
Getting Started
Conclusions – Sorry, You’re Not Quite Done!
Section V: Decisions
Chapter 31: Who, Need and When
Whose Decision Is This, Anyway?
Need, Again!
When Does This Decision Need to Be Made?
Getting Started with Who, Need and When
Chapter 32: Criteria
Without Criteria, Nothing Is Decided
Getting Started with Criteria
Chapter 33: Risk
Eleven Risk Factors
Using the Eleven Factor Model
What Is Too Risky?
Getting Started with Risk
Chapter 34: Summary of Decisions
Decisions – Taking Action
Getting Started
Are we done yet?
Chapter 35: Critical Thinking: Summary and Suggestions
Critical Thinking Summary
Critical Thinking – Let’s Begin
ISBN: 9781118729830
ISBN-10: 1118729838
Published: 28th March 2014
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 240
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 22 x 15 x 3
Weight (kg): 0.44
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