I recently presented my case for becoming a thinking generalist. However, I’d like to modify that title a bit and rename this person a Pragmatic Thinker. As stated last time, Pragmatic Thinkers incorporate the essentials of five schools of thought into their daily lives. Critical thinking – because we must evaluate evidence and arguments. Skepticism…
In the last issue of MindPrep I mentioned our plans to create a course focused on Pragmatic Business Thinking and I drafted a course description. Mary, my friend and advisor, reminded me that I just might want to define the term before I described the course. Of course, I was assuming that all of you…
First, a quick quiz. What do they have in common? Well, obviously, they are no longer needed. But ponder this – these businesses were managed by experienced, educated, well paid, and (supposedly) smart people. What went wrong? Why did they disappear? I suggest that poor quality thinking is at the heart of the decisions they…
There is this cool, but complicated, thinking machine that sits between your two ears. You might think it looks like a grey blob, but I imagine it as a rather interesting machine that produces a custom version of “my truth.” Maybe it looks like this: Rin Duong You’ll note that the inputs to the machine…
In an earlier post I explained the need to think in a set of six nested boxes rather than simply “outside the box.” Context: a set of boxes Here is a set of boxes shown with some of their component parts. These parts change and interact in an amoral sense – not good, not bad….
Here are some components of thinking and some notes I made about myself and the world at large. Components 1. Perception: The process of taking in sensory information and making sense of it. I sense the weather every day but am not sure about climate change. To misquote Sherlock Holmes, we see but we do not…
Don’t think outside the box. Think in more boxes.
According to (made up) research, hundreds of (non) interviews, and my (non-relevant) credentials, I have concluded that too many of us are suckers. I have no doubt that the earth is flat, we never landed on the moon, and alchemy works. After all, I read it on the Internet. I’m in the process of developing…
The future is going to be increasingly complex, contentious, and “wicked.” (Note: Wicked environments exist where the rules of the game are often unclear, feedback is spotty at best, and patterns are lacking or not obvious. It’s a condition of a system, not a commentary on morals.) We need great thinkers to deal with the…
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