Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the ability to identify and respond to needs through experience, reflection, and observation of yourself and the environment. You need to be able to look at problems objectively, break them down, and look at them from different angles. Problems won’t always have a simple solution so being able to change how you look at things will help in solving the issues. Critical thinking is also about being able to look at oneself critically and in an unbiased way.
Critical Thinking in Leadership
Leaders need to be able to take information from many different sources, analyze it, and then apply it to the situation at hand. It’s the leader’s job to come up with solutions to problems and to find better ways of running things. In order to do this, they have to be able to think critically about everything. Ethics also comes into play when talking about critical thinking. When coming up with ideas, you need to make sure those ideas are grounded in fairmindedness and intellectual integrity.
Critical Thinking Artifact
The below artifact is a paper from OGL340, The Future of Humanity Project. The entire class was about getting us to think differently about everything. The paper asks questions like what is consciousness, and does it make the person? The paper gets into deep thought and relates back to David Bohm, one of the greatest thinkers of our time. The whole paper was a practice in critical thinking.
Critical thinking is the ability to identify and respond to needs through experience, reflection, and observation of yourself and the environment. You need to be able to look at problems objectively, break them down, and look at them from different angles. Problems won’t always have a simple solution so being able to change how you look at things will help in solving the issues. Critical thinking is also about being able to look at oneself critically and in an unbiased way.
Critical Thinking in Leadership
Leaders need to be able to take information from many different sources, analyze it, and then apply it to the situation at hand. It’s the leader’s job to come up with solutions to problems and to find better ways of running things. In order to do this, they have to be able to think critically about everything. Ethics also comes into play when talking about critical thinking. When coming up with ideas, you need to make sure those ideas are grounded in fairmindedness and intellectual integrity.
Critical Thinking Artifact
The below artifact is a paper from OGL340, The Future of Humanity Project. The entire class was about getting us to think differently about everything. The paper asks questions like what is consciousness, and does it make the person? The paper gets into deep thought and relates back to David Bohm, one of the greatest thinkers of our time. The whole paper was a practice in critical thinking.
Reflection
Critical thinking is something all leaders should be able to do well and apply it to both the opportunities and problems they face. Having classes that help to teach us how to think critically will be helpful both at work and in our personal lives. We also need to understand how to apply it to the other core competencies. That is because this is one of the competencies that can be used in conjunction with all of the other competencies.
I was an all-source analyst in the Army, and they taught us how to think critically because lives were on the line when we were conducting analysis. Because of that and my many years of experience doing the job I can’t say that I learned much more than I already knew. However, I did learn how to apply it to different problem sets that I wasn’t previously aware of. As a project manager, I will be coming up against problems all the time, and I’m not going to have someone there to hold my hand. It will be important for me to know how to solve my issues on my own.