July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
85 pages
2h 43m
English
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Preface
What makes this book unique is that it is a compilation of errors that have been personally committed, or witnessed, by me and my close associates. Hands-on, real causes for those errors were then assigned and categorized to enable one to examine a situation that requires a decision to be made and then asked, “Is the decision maker really making the correct decision? Did the decision maker apply critical thinking to determine the worst scenario that can occur if the incorrect decision is made?”
My definition of critical thinking is “the disciplined mental activity of evaluating arguments or propositions that can guide the development of beliefs and taking action”. I then delineate what I consider to be important characteristics of critical ...