Critical Thinking for Better Judgment and Decision-Making

Teach your team how to think critically. Learn how to use critical thinking to avoid fallacies, spot biases, craft better arguments, hone judgment, and improve decision-making.

Introduction

• Upgrading critical thinking
• Avoiding five critical-thinking killers

1. The Critical Thinking Difference

• Critical versus strategic thinking
• Seven ways to think about thinking
• Conditions to think beneath the surface

2. Minimizing Bad Judgment

• A Nobel Prize-winning way to think about thinking
• Can you spot these cognitive biases?

3. Improving Decision Quality

• The REF method: Your intuition referee
• Using counterfactual thinking
• Overcoming dangers of loss aversion

4. Critical Thinking Fallacies

• Most common logical fallacies at work
• Avoiding the planning fallacy
• Using framing to your advantage

5. Creating the Critical Thinking Culture of Curiosity

• Questions that fuel curiosity
• Organizing a critical thinking workshop

Conclusion

• Bonus tip