Critical Thinking

Memo On Critical Thinking
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Memo on Critical Thinking
Critical thinking can be defined as the ability to think rationally and clearly concerning what to do and what to believe. The National Council for excellence in critical thinking explains that critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of skillfully and actively conceptualizing, analyzing, applying, synthesizing and the evaluation of the collected information or that which is generated by observation, reasoning, experience, reflection or communication as a guide to action and belief. It is based on the intellectual values that transcend the divisions of the subject matter which include accuracy, consistency, clarity, precision, relevance, good reasons, depth, fairness, breath and the sound evidence. It involves the examination of those elements or structures of thought implicit in reasoning, problem, purpose and the empirical grounding. Critical thinking can be seen as containing two elements. First, is the information generating and processing skill and secondly is the habit that is based on the intellectual commitments and use of the acquired skills.
In making business decisions, critical thinking has significantly helped me in my personal experience. It helped me solve the conflicts among the workforce which was making the organization reduce the amount of work done by the employees since some of them had to be absent to avoid the conflicts in the workplace. Through the use of the critical thinking skills, I asked the employees to step back from their personal emotions of those conflicts and be able to logically determine the merits and the demerits of expressing their feelings. This helped the employees to make the best move ever by staying detached from their emotional feelings which allowed them to share their feelings calmly and obtained a lasting solution.
Critical thinking is a general thing skill domain that is crucial in all aspects of...