Critical Thinking for Managers, 1st ed. 2021 Structured Decision-Making and Persuasion in Business Management for Professionals Series
Auteur : Atanasiu Radu
This book discusses critical thinking as a tool for more compassionate leadership, presenting tried and tested methods for managing disagreement, for anticipating and solving problems, and for enhancing empathy. Employing a lighter tone of voice than most management books, it also shows how and when less-than-rational mechanisms such as intuition and heuristics may be efficient decision-making tools in any manager?s toolbox.
Critical thinking is useful for analyzing incoming information in the context of decision-making and is crucial for structuring outgoing information in the context of persuasion. When trying to convince a client to buy a service, an executive board to fund a project, or a colleague to change a procedure, managers can use the simple step-by-step guides provided here to prepare for successful meetings and effective pitches.
Managerial thinking can be steadily improved, using a structured process, especially if we learn to think about our thinking. This book guides current and would-be managers through this process of improving and metathinking, in connection with decision-making and persuasion. Using examples from business, together with research insights from Behavioral Economics and from Management and Organizational Cognition, the author illustrates common pitfalls like hidden assumptions and cognitive biases, and provides easy-to-use solutions for testing hypotheses and resolving dilemmas.
1. Introduction
2. Who Needs Critical Thinking?
Part II. Critical Thinking in Business Decision-Making
3. Hidden Assumptions
4. Test Your Business Assumptions
5. Reason, Emotions, and Intuition
6. Cognitive Biases
7. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
8. Decision-Making in Groups
9. Problem Solving
Part III. Critical Thinking in Persuasion
10. One-on-One Persuasion
11. Debating
12. Fallacies
13 Ten Fair-Play Principles in Argumentation
14. The Courage to Change Our Mind
15. Wrap Up
Offers a structured approach and easy-to-use tools for improving decision-making in business
Presents tested methods to cope with disagreement and to learn from failure
Structures the persuasion process by highlighting the correct mix of arguments and empathy
Discusses critical thinking as tool for humane leadership
Date de parution : 05-2021
Ouvrage de 186 p.
15.5x23.5 cm