StrategyU

AUGUST 19, 2024

From an education perspective, it’s a method where students are encouraged to use critical thinking and reasoning to solve problems given in a textbook or a test.). In consulting, you are solving problems that don’t have a clear solution, yet. In 2007 McKinsey published a memo detailing their approach.

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StrategyU

JUNE 12, 2021

That is the world that would exist without critical thinking. Critical thinking is not well understood. People say “you go to school to learn how to think” but show no evidence that this happens. We assume critical thinking happens at work but we can’t explain how we do it.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Because for some reason, a feasible solution is usually included with the "why," a bit like getting that second ShamWow for free. Keeping one's critical thinking capacity on all the time – not hiding it behind laws or rules of polite discourse – is key to doing anything different or better.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

Posted by Anthony on January 18, 2010 at 10:41 am | permalink | @Anthony: You clearly missed that Cathy and Quatrefoil are both Australian…as well as missing the point that extreme nationalism was one CAUSE of WWII and not the solution. Playing the whole 'if you don't think America is perfect, then get the hell on' card.

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