How Good Thinking Makes Good Lives: 100 Scenarios for Creative and Critical Thinking

By Charles Png

This book is about Good Thinking. By applying the 8 SCENARIO Principles, readers will be able to develop their critical and creative thinking abilities. The belief that a good thinking model makes for a good life has prompted us to write a book for those who aspire to be better thinkers.

This book is for everyone who believes that through good thinking, good lives are made. These principles will enable you to effectively think through critical and creative challenges. This will allow you to think more effectively and creatively. You will be amazed by the changes in your life when you think more clearly. These scenarios are written to allow you to do the following:

1. As a facilitator, you will be able to use these real-life scenarios to have discussions with your participants. These scenarios will help your participants to use the tools provided to think more critically and creatively.

2. As an educator, you will be able to use these authentic scenarios to reflect on your own experiences and to apply these thinking principles with your students. Teach them the thinking tools.

3. As a reader, you will be able to use these relevant scenarios to determine the principles you will use when you think. These thinking tools will enable you to be a better thinker.

4. As a thinker, you will be able to identify with these impactful scenarios as they relate to your thinking in your daily life. The tools will remind you to be a better thinker.

The suggested answers are just thatâ suggestions. Feel free to consider other suggestions that are aligned with the issue and the context.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9789810917166

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internationally.

Principle 1:

Seek Simple Solutions Soon

Critical Thinking: Seek Somewhere Else

Scenario 1: Search Facebook

You have been told by your boss to research the latest technologies in social media communication. You need to present to her which tools should be allowed in the office and which technologies can be used to connect with customers.

What would you do? What would you say?

How would you handle this situation?

Suggested answers:

1. Search online for these technologies and immerse yourself in some of these platforms.

2. Provide a presentation that highlights the key benefits and disadvantages of each tool and how it has been implemented in another place/organization.

3. How can we connect better—face to face?

Critical Thinking: Seek Somewhere Else

Scenario 2: Talent Management Solutions

You face a HR issue that is new to your organization. This requires a new system that will enable HR solutions to be