Preface
Acknowledgments
Section I INTRODUCTION AND THE FRAMEWORK FOR CRITICAL THINKING
1 What Is Critical Thinking?
2 When to Use Critical Thinking
3 The Framework and Tools
Section II CLARITY
4 Empty Your Bucket
5 Inspection
6 Why?
7 So What?
8 Need
9 Anticipatory Thinking
10 What Else?
11 The Ingredient Diagram
12 Vision
13 The Thinking Coach
14 Summary of Clarity
Section III CONCLUSIONS
15 It's All about the Premise
16 Facts
17 Observations
18 Experiences
19 Beliefs
20 Assumptions
21 The Conclusion: Putting It All Together
22 Credibility
23 Consistency
24 Triangular Thinking
25 Change
26 Influencing and Persuading
Section IV CONCLUSIONS AND INNOVATION
27 Outside-the-Box Thinking
28 Abductive Thinking
29 Impossible Thinking
30 Summary of Conclusions
Section V DECISIONS
31 Who, Need, and When
32 Criteria
33 Risk
34 Summary of Decisions
CRITICAL THINKING SUMMARY AND SUGGESTIONS
About the Author
Index