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Thinking Skills for Professionals

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  • © 2010

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  1. Bryan Greetham
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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 1-6

  3. Original Ideas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-8
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    2. Reprogramming our Thinking

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 9-22

    3. Asking the Right Questions

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 23-32

    4. Generating Ideas

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 33-44

  4. Structuring Our Ideas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-46
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    2. Causal Thinking

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 47-57

    3. Conceptual Thinking — Analysis 1: Second-Order Thinking

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 58-66

    4. Conceptual Thinking — Analysis 2: The Three-Step Technique

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 67-81

    5. Conceptual Thinking: Synthesis

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 82-94

  5. Creative Thinking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-97
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    2. Problem Solving 1: Analogies

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 99-108

    3. Problem Solving 2: Adapting Structures

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 109-125

  6. Critical Thinking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-129
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    2. Thinking with Arguments 1: The Components

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 131-137

    3. Thinking with Arguments 2: The Connections

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 138-150

    4. Thinking with Evidence 1: Describing It

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 151-162

    5. Thinking with Evidence 2: Drawing Relevant Inferences

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 163-172

    6. Thinking with Evidence 3: Drawing Reliable Inferences

      • Bryan Greetham
      Pages 173-181
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About this book

This book gives professionals and business people the essential tools to become better thinkers and decision-makers. It sets out simple methods and techniques to avoid poor decision making by developing our conceptual, creative and critical thinking skills, along with ways of incorporating them within our daily lives.

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'This book fills an important gap. [...] [F]lows easily and logically, and is formatted to be read in digestible bits. [...] Highly recommended.' - M. M. Gillis, Choice

About the author

Bryan was educated at the universities of Kent and Sussex. He holds a PhD in moral philosophy from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is currently engaged in research into moral thinking and the Holocaust, and teaches philosophy at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Philosophy, How to Write your Undergraduate Dissertation, How to Write Better Essays and Thinking Skills for Professionals.

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