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RED in Real Life
Examples of good and bad critical thinking and making decisions with the RED model!
The Toughest Decision You’ve Made
I wanted to write a post about the toughest decision I’ve ever made. I planned to break that decision down into the steps of the RED Model to show how I followed the logical steps necessary for making a strong decision. But then it occurred to me that I cannot think of a single decision [...]
Why Do So Many of Us Think Poorly Despite Being Smart?
Ever since Noah was tasked with building an ark to save his family and a few hundred animals, humans have performed physical labor! Today nearly everyone I know works with information as their raw material in one form or another. We’re a generation of thinkers. We think about sales numbers, emails to send, products we [...]
Purse Design Blunder – Critical Thinking Could Have Helped
Often decisions boil down to priorities. Sometimes this means we can’t have everything and so we compromise. But how often do we make fair compromises? No, I don’t mean fair as in a win-win scenario, though that’s always something to aspire to. What I do mean is that we made the seemingly best decision, based [...]
What is an Opinion?
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. ~John Erskine Image Source
It All Starts With the Assumption
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. ~Alan Alda Image Source
6 Critical Thinking Techniques to Handle Difficult Customers
Among many things, a company’s reputation comes from the quality of their goods or services, their innovation and often from their customer service. If a company wants a good reputation then odds are they need good customer service. Customer service is a tricky territory because it’s so vague. Personally, I see customer service as an [...]
Webcast Recap & 3 Things a Company Must Do to Increase Critical Thinking
Judy Chartrand delivered an awesome webcast on Thursday through HR.com – How to Increase Critical Thinking in the Workplace – where she posed an excellent question to the group: Do you have an established program to develop critical thinking in your organization? A sobering 89% of folks said no, their company does not and 11% [...]
The Achilles’ Heel of Critical Thinking
What is your Achilles’ Heel of critical thinking? We all have at least one- some issue or situation that we cannot approach as an outsider free of emotions or bias. This week I learned that my dogs are my Achilles’ Heel to critical thinking. My 10-year old papillon Stoli started acting lethargic this week and [...]
5 Critical Thinking Tips to Improve Your Writing
It’s critical to be able to write well. Since elementary school we’ve all been taught some version of the writing process – to brainstorm, organize, draft, proofread, edit, re-read, and publish. This fluid process was supported throughout our academic careers – remember the days when we had 2+ weeks to write a paper?! All that [...]
Decorative Fruit – Critical Thinking Win or Fail?!
I may be on a business trip but I’m thoroughly enjoying my stay in Scottsdale, Arizona. The sun is shining, the breeze is perfect and the plants are stunning. Each time we walk past the orange trees at the hotel my colleagues and I comment about how beautiful they are. Except I couldn’t just take [...]