Every day, my colleagues and I post the newest and most relevant articles in the world of critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and creativity through our various social media accounts. Because we know you’re busy and may not be connected to all of us through LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, we are going to start a new monthly post here where we share the links to the greatest articles/research we found in the last 30 days.
Here are the headlines that have caught our attention lately:
- Ten Takeaway Tips for Teaching Critical Thinking
- 21st-Century Skills: Critical Thinking by University of Phoenix
- Mind Mapping to Improve Thinking and Decision Making
- Decision Making Improves with Age and Experience

- Technology Eliminates Trial and Error (a critical component to learning)
- Don’t Confuse Critical Thinking with Negativity
- 9 Ways to Create Creativity
- Making Too Many Decisions Can Stunt Your Creativity
- Patience and Critical Thinking are Key to Solving Crimes
- Preparing for the Worst Increases Your Chances of Success
- Five Questions that will Improve Your Teaching
- Assessments Can Help Determine Thinking Style
- Decoding Intuition for More Effective Decision Making
- Should Critical Thinking be the Focus of Education?
- Critical Thinking Skills are Critical
- 3 Exercises to Improve Your Creative Thinking Skills
- Intelligence Alone Does Not Guarantee Good Critical Thinking
- Managers Should Study the Brain to Learn About Decision Making
- Decision Making 101- Defining Your Values Makes Most Decisions Easy
- Why Your Decision Making Instincts are Dead Wrong
- Teachers in a Bind: Tests Don’t Measure Critical Thinking
- Learning Better Decisions from Sherlock Holmes
- Nine Steps to Effective Business Problem Solving
- 12 Ways to be More Creative at Work
- Can We Learn Critical Thinking?

- Attribution Theory and the Fundamental Attribution Error
- Extracting Innovation from Your Cognitive Surplus
- Embed Decision Capabilities In Your Organization
- Problem Solvers Focus on the Problem, Not the Solution
- Marijuana Affects Decision Making
- Five Techniques for Avoiding Short-Sighted Decision-Making
- Experts Back the Notion that Sleep Helps Decision-Making
- 7 Important Creative Thinking Skills
- Creativity and Innovation in Business
- When Our Intuition Leads Us to Bad Decisions
- SMART Program teaches wounded veterans of war to think strategically & improve creativity
- Great tips on how to make difficult life decisions based on multiple frameworks
- Bad ideas can result in better thinking. Don’t be too quick to shoot down ideas.
- Fatigued? Try Teamwork for Better Decisions
- What is the RED model of critical thinking? Quick video to explain the model
- How Creative Thinking Gets Killed by Team Members- Strategy Consulting and Strategic Planning
- Should You Reward Bad Ideas?
What did we miss? Do you have any favorite blogs, articles or research on critical thinking?
Also, if you’d like to connect with each of us directly to see daily updates, here are our social media links:
Critical-Thinkers on Facebook
Now You’re Thinking! on Facebook
Critical Thinking in the Workplace (LinkedIn)
Heather Ishikawa (Co-Author of Now You’re Thinking!): @heatherishikawa LinkedIn
Breanne Harris (Chief Blogger of Critical-Thinkers): @breanneph LinkedIn
Watson Glaser: @watsonglaser
Now You’re Thinking: @URThinking
Pearson TalentLens: @talentlens

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