Jun, 19th, 2008

biases, bad experiences and stress helps us gain
objectivity and find ways to compensate for them in our
thinking.

Why is critical thinking so important in today's
workplace? 

Most organizations have a dynamic, high volume event
environment. In any given day, a myriad of problems
will arise.

How can we identify the critical ones, weed out the
important from the mundane and ensure we are spending
our dollars and utilizing our time most efficiently and
in the most cost beneficial manner?

Most people need to make quick, and well thought-out,
decisions. A snap decision on a seemingly innocuous
problem may whirlwind into a major disaster.

We need to look beyond the immediate problem and
conduct root cause and trend analysis. If we do not
identify the source of the problem, we are probably
doomed to keep repeating it.

Most organizations are interrelated in some way. If
we implement solutions to problems without considering
these relationships, we may make the original situation
worse and raise our cost of doing business. 

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"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for
action arrives, stop thinking and go in." 

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Critical thinking is another important leadership
skill. It is an approach to decision making which
enables you to come up with the best possible solution
with the resources you have available to you.

Some consider critical thinking to be essential only
during emergency situations; that is not the case. As