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Hot off the Press: Pearson Launches Critical Thinking Website
You may have already heard that Pearson has launched our Critical Thinking website, www.ThinkWatson.com. Courtesy of our TalentLens team, I’d like to share our Press Release with you: Pearson Launches Critical Thinking Website,www.ThinkWatson.com Minneapolis, MN and San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) August 17, 2010 Employee assessments and online personality tests are vital to successful business and leadership development [...]
Thinking Critically About Lebron’s Decision
We’re just a few hours from Lebron James’ announcement on which NBA team he’ll play for next season. Will it be the Heat, Cavs, Knicks, Nets, Bulls – or a surprise team? Let me use Pearson’s RED critical thinking model to help ”think it through” (Recognize Assumptions, Evaluate Arguments, Draw Conclusions). Some Assumptions: Lebron wants to leave [...]
What is Your Company’s Deepwater Horizon?
Don’t you just hate those Worst Case Scenario kind of people? Every time you come up with an idea, they run through a million possible (though unlikely) ways things could go wrong. They make meetings last twice longer than usual with warnings, caveats, and regulations. Who needs that kind of negative thinking? Or is it [...]
Critical Thinking Fail: Value of Toothpaste Over Life
Today’s Critical Thinking Fail moment is quite disturbing. What is the average cost of toothpaste these days? Four dollars? Maybe $6 for the fancier brands? Would you say your life is worth more than $4-$6? Sadly, 36- year old Anthony Kyser gambled his life on a $4 tube of toothpaste and lost. When an employee [...]
Are People With Big Heads Smarter?
Do you have a big head… or a big forehead? I do on both accounts, and until now it’s been a point of embarrassment for me – especially as my hairline recedes. My wife jokes about my head being my most dangerous weapon if I have to defend our family. I usually say it’s because [...]
Critical Thinking FAIL (with credit to FailBlog.org)
Do you subscribe to FailBlog.org? If not, you’re missing out. Every day I see something that constitutes a “Critical Thinking Fail.” You know what I’m talking about. A Critical Thinking Fail moment is when you step back and say “Really?! Really?!?! Someone thought this was a good idea? REALLY?!?!?!” Fail Blog gathers the best of [...]
Stephen Colbert Teaches Critical Thinking
This week, Stephen Colbert showed us what critical thinking is all about. He discussed the story of a Long Island couple who scammed a grocery store who purchased Jell-O boxes, replaced the contents with aquarium sand and returned the item to the store for a full refund. It is a sad state of affairs when [...]
Executives Weigh In on Frequency of Good Decisions: Results are Alarming
Here’s a scary reality: only 28% of executives report that their companies make good strategic decisions. These results come from a study McKinsey featured in one of their latest quarterly publications. To reach these conclusions McKinsey surveyed over 2,000 executives and studied over 1,000 decisions made by companies. Their analysis attributes the problem to two [...]
Thinking critically about the NCAA tourney and unheralded players grabbing the spotlight
HR pros: Are you following the great human drama that is the NCAA basketball tourney? You had better be! With so many “mid majors” (though I despise that moniker) beating big-name schools, the tournament has become a great place for new players & faces to gain national attention and underachievers to step up. Who’s your favorite [...]
Bad critical thinking by McGraw-Hill CEO? You be the judge…
The CEO of McGraw-Hill committed quite an error of judgment during a CNBC interview on Tuesday. During the interview about his company’s earnings he leaked news that McGraw-Hill would be a major content partner for Apple’s new iPad device (yet to be announced by Apple!). Steve Jobs reacted by removing McGraw-Hill’s logo from his iPad presentation [...]