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003			Urbe University
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020			_a9783030735999
040			_cURBE
050			_aHD 30.23 A832 2021
100			_aAtanasiu, Radu _dauthor
245			_aCritical Thinking for Managers: _bStructured Decision-Making and Persuasion in Business _cRadu Atanasiu
260			_aCham : _bSpringer , _c2021
300			_a186 pages
440			_aManagement for Profesionals
505			_aPart I. Overview -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Who Needs Critical Thinking? -- Part II. Critical Thinking in Business Decision-Making -- 3. Hidden Assumptions -- 4. Test Your Business Assumptions -- 5. Reason, Emotions, and Intuition -- 6. Cognitive Biases -- 7. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions -- 8. Decision-Making in Groups -- 9. Problem Solving -- Part III. Critical Thinking in Persuasion -- 10. One-on-One Persuasion -- 11. Debating -- 12. Fallacies -- 13 Ten Fair-Play Principles in Argumentation -- 14. The Courage to Change Our Mind -- 15. Wrap Up.
520			_a"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)
520			_aThis 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 managers 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.
650			_aCritical Thinking
650			_aDecision Making
650			_aManagement
942			_2lcc _cBK
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