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Thinking Skills for Professionals B. Greetham

Thinking Skills for Professionals By B. Greetham

Thinking Skills for Professionals by B. Greetham


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Summary

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.

Thinking Skills for Professionals Summary

Thinking Skills for Professionals by B. Greetham

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.

Thinking Skills for Professionals Reviews

'This book fills an important gap. [...] [F]lows easily and logically, and is formatted to be read in digestible bits. [...] Highly recommended.' - M. M. Gillis, Choice

About B. Greetham

Bryan was educated at the universities of Kent and Sussex. He holds a PhD in moral philosophy from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is currently engaged in research into moral thinking and the Holocaust, and teaches philosophy at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Philosophy, How to Write your Undergraduate Dissertation, How to Write Better Essays and Thinking Skills for Professionals.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: ORIGINAL IDEAS Reprogramming our Thinking Asking the Right Questions Generating Ideas PART II: STRUCTURING OUR IDEAS Causal Thinking Conceptual Thinking Analysis 1: Second Order Thinking Conceptual Thinking Analysis 2: The Three-Step Technique Conceptual Thinking: Synthesis PART III: CREATIVE THINKING Problem Solving 1: Analogies Problem Solving 2: Adapting Structures PART IV: CRITICAL THINKING Thinking with Arguments 1: The Components Thinking with Arguments 2: The Connections Thinking with Evidence 1: Describing It Thinking with Evidence 2: Drawing Relevant Inferences Thinking with Evidence 3: Drawing Reliable Inferences Thinking with Language 1: Clarity Thinking with Language 2: Consistency PART V: MORAL THINKING : A CASE STUDY Moral Thinking 1: Generating Ideas Moral Thinking 2: Structuring Ideas Moral Thinking 3: Designing Solutions Moral Thinking 4: Evaluating Solutions Conclusion Glossary Index

Additional information

GOR009784064
9781403917089
1403917086
Thinking Skills for Professionals by B. Greetham
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Palgrave USA
2010-05-07
290
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