Overview
- Offers a structured approach and easy-to-use tools for improving decision-making in business
- Presents tested methods to cope with disagreement and to learn from failure
- Structures the persuasion process by highlighting the correct mix of arguments and empathy
- Discusses critical thinking as tool for humane leadership
Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview
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Critical Thinking in Business Decision-Making
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Critical Thinking in Persuasion
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About this book
This book discusses critical thinking as a tool for more compassionate leadership, presenting tried and tested methods for managing disagreement, for anticipating and solving problems, and for enhancing empathy. Employing a lighter tone of voice than most management books, it also shows how and when less-than-rational mechanisms such as intuition and heuristics may be efficient decision-making tools in any manager’s toolbox.
Critical thinking is useful for analyzing incoming information in the context of decision-making and is crucial for structuring outgoing information in the context of persuasion. When trying to convince a client to buy a service, an executive board to fund a project, or a colleague to change a procedure, managers can use the simple step-by-step guides provided here to prepare for successful meetings and effective pitches.
Managerial thinking can be steadily improved, using a structured process, especially if we learn to think about our thinking. This book guides current and would-be managers through this process of improving and metathinking, in connection with decision-making and persuasion. Using examples from business, together with research insights from Behavioral Economics and from Management and Organizational Cognition, the author illustrates common pitfalls like hidden assumptions and cognitive biases, and provides easy-to-use solutions for testing hypotheses and resolving dilemmas.
Reviews
“It is a how-to guide on critical thinking for managers. Although it is a very serious subject it is written in a pleasant, engaging and easy-to-read style and is larded with some fun, enlightening and sometimes challenging intermezzos. The book has a certain focus on decision making and pursuasion as the subtitle discloses and it is a very efficient pick from the vast world of critical thinking for practical use by managers.” (Paul Hartog, goodreads.com, July 15, 2021)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Thinking for Managers
Book Subtitle: Structured Decision-Making and Persuasion in Business
Authors: Radu Atanasiu
Series Title: Management for Professionals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73600-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73599-9Published: 11 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73600-2Published: 10 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2192-8096
Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 186
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Resource Development, Management, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Economic Psychology