Critical Thinking for Managers : Structured Decision-Making and Persuasion in Business

Part 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. .