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How Top-Tier Consultants at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG Really Solve Problems 

StrategyU

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.). From a psychological perspective, it’s a cognitive process in which a person uses mental strategies to achieve a goal or find an answer to a challenging situation.

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Attention Management (Not Time Management) is the Key to Productivity with Author Maura Thomas

Crestcom

Our job outputs are things like relationships and thinking and critical thinking and analysis and ideas and connections, right? I know you and probably most of your listeners, we are what, what some people call knowledge workers, right? We are people whose job outputs are brain functions, right?