About this nonfiction
Critical Thinking for Managers: Structured Decision-Making and Persuasion in Business (Management for Professionals) by Radu Atanasiu (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
"This book discusses critical thinking as a tool for more compassionate leadership, presenting tried and tested methods for managing disagreement, for anticipating and solving problems, and for enhancing empathy. Employing a lighter tone of voice than most management books, it also shows how and when less-than-rational mechanisms such as intuition and heuristics may be efficient decision-making tools in any managers toolbox. Critical thinking is useful for analyzing incoming information in the context of decision-making and is crucial for structuring outgoing information in the context of persuasion. When trying to convince a client to buy a service, an executive board to fund a project, or a colleague to change a procedure, managers can use the simple step-by-step guides provided here to prepare for successful meetings and effective pitches. Managerial thinking can be steadily improved, using a structured process, especially if we learn to think about our thinking. This book guides current and would-be managers through this process of improving and metathinking, in connection with decision-making and persuasion. Using examples from business, together with research insights from Be
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Radu Atanasiu (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783030736002
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Management, Business