Thinking & Decision Making Paper

Thinking and Decision Making Paper

Kenyetta Bay, Sterrene Nelson, Rosalia Reck,

and LaKeitha McKinney

MGT/350

March 5, 2012

Charles Bocage

Thinking and Decision Making Paper

Thinking and decisions making is very important in an individual’s personal life as well as their business life. We as individuals all come from different background, beliefs, and culture which makes us all diverse people. Since we all are diverse individuals how we think and make decisions will not be the same. However thinking can be categorized in three groups---------------.

Creative Thinking

According to the chapter, "creative thinking is crucial to critical thinking, we probe our awareness of the elusive moment and process of creativity (Kirby, Goodpaster, 2007)".  Creative thinking is a process, many may brainstorm, ask what if questions, and role play.  This thinking style allows the group to come up with different ideas or "thinking outside the box" so to speak that lead to those what if questions.  The “what if” questions generate more ideas that sometimes lead to role playing in the work environment.  Role playing provides various points of views and you come up with various ways to approach situations that may come up during the process.  Leading one or the group to become creative in their thinking.

Logical Thinking

Logical thinking is something we do when we want to evaluate every possible aspect of a

problem, issue or project that will come up through out the work day.  The chapter states there

are two elements to logical thinking, deductive thinking and inductive thinking.  The chapter

defines deductive thinking as, "the kind of reasoning that begins with two or more premises and

derives a conclusion that must follow those premises, and a conclusion that is fact contained or

hidden in premises. (Kirby, Goodpaster, 2007)". 

Persuasive Thinking

According to the chapter, "persuasion means to influence someone to accept our...