Contextual Intelligence: How Thinking in 3D Can Help Resolve Complexity, Uncertainty and Ambiguity

✍ Scribed by Matthew Kutz (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 164
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a structured framework for critical thinking and decision making that shows how to use hindsight, insight, and foresight to navigate through complexity.

Every organization and every person faces rapid change and complexity. Contextual intelligence – understanding fully the context in which one is operating – teaches the reader how to navigate that complexity and respond appropriately in the face of change (expected and unexpected).

The Three-Dimensional (3D) Thinking™ framework helps structure critical thinking by showing how to appropriately bring past experience, present intuition, and future ambiguity– in other words: hindsight, insight, and foresight – to bear on any given problem.

Kutz offers a way to rationally organize difficult concepts such as complexity, tacit knowledge, and synchronicity into usable and understandable language, but more importantly teaches the reader how to apply these concepts in a very practical and meaningful way with measurable and tangible outcomes.

The book also describes in detail 12 behaviors associated with contextual intelligence. Four behaviors are associated with hindsight, four behaviors are associated with insight, and four behaviors are associated with foresight. The book takes the reader through the 12 behaviors and how they relate to 3D Thinking.

Cases and anecdotes are used generously to provide examples. Chapters are followed by critical thinking questions and questions related to the cases in the chapters. Furthermore, questions and practical tools are introduced that help the reader assess and determine their level of contextual intelligence.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
What Is Contextual Intelligence?....Pages 9-20
Using Contextual Intelligence at Work and in Life....Pages 21-29
Putting the Contextual Intelligence Model Together....Pages 31-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Embracing Complexity....Pages 55-70
Reframing Experience....Pages 71-77
Leveraging Learning....Pages 79-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-95
3D Thinking: A Different Orientation to Time....Pages 97-107
Decision-Making in a Variable-Rich Context....Pages 109-119
Implementing Contextual Intelligence....Pages 121-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Disruptors of 3D Thinking....Pages 131-138
Overcoming the Obstacles to Contextual Intelligence....Pages 139-148
Recommendations and Action Steps for Implementing Contextual Intelligence....Pages 149-156
Back Matter....Pages 157-164

✦ Subjects

Operation Research/Decision Theory;Organization

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