Thinking Skills for Professionals

✍ Scribed by Bryan Greetham (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book gives professionals and business people the essential tools to become better thinkers and decision-makers. It sets out simple methods and techniques to avoid poor decision making by developing our conceptual, creative and critical thinking skills, along with ways of incorporating them within our daily lives.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-8
Reprogramming our Thinking....Pages 9-22
Asking the Right Questions....Pages 23-32
Generating Ideas....Pages 33-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-46
Causal Thinking....Pages 47-57
Conceptual Thinking — Analysis 1: Second-Order Thinking....Pages 58-66
Conceptual Thinking — Analysis 2: The Three-Step Technique....Pages 67-81
Conceptual Thinking: Synthesis....Pages 82-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-97
Problem Solving 1: Analogies....Pages 99-108
Problem Solving 2: Adapting Structures....Pages 109-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-129
Thinking with Arguments 1: The Components....Pages 131-137
Thinking with Arguments 2: The Connections....Pages 138-150
Thinking with Evidence 1: Describing It....Pages 151-162
Thinking with Evidence 2: Drawing Relevant Inferences....Pages 163-172
Thinking with Evidence 3: Drawing Reliable Inferences....Pages 173-181
Thinking with Language 1: Clarity....Pages 182-195
Thinking with Language 2: Consistency....Pages 196-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-208
Moral Thinking 1: Generating Ideas....Pages 209-224
Moral Thinking 2: Structuring Ideas....Pages 225-240
Moral Thinking 3: Designing Solutions....Pages 241-255
Front Matter....Pages 205-208
Moral Thinking 4: Evaluating Solutions....Pages 256-268
Conclusion....Pages 269-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-290

✦ Subjects

Logic; Business Ethics; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Learning & Instruction; Business and Management, general; Critical Theory