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Critical Thinking / Nov. 2023
In a recent article, Indeed proposed that not only is critical thinking an essential skill to develop as an employee, but that critical thinkers are also happier because they can better understand their own motivations and goals which can lead to thoughtful life changes that promotes growth and happiness (2023). For November 2023, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine critical thinking.
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Proving the Value of Soft Skills
A Step-by-Step Guide to Showing the Value of Soft Skill Programs. As organizations rise to meet the challenges of technological innovation, globalization, changing customer needs and perspectives, demographic shifts, and new work arrangements, their mastery of soft skills will likely be the defining difference between thriving and merely surviving.
Skills for Career Success
This career development tool kit is for people who want to take charge of their own professional futures. If you want to have a career that is meaningful and inspires you, you must prepare for it the same way you would a marathon--developing an overall training plan to carry you through to race day and beyond.
Asking Smarter Questions
Insight is the superpower that drives innovation and enables us to understand the world from other peoples' points of view, be they customers or colleagues, advocates or competitors. This new book from data storyteller Sam Knowles explains how to ask smarter questions - questions that, by design, stimulate more useful answers.
People-Centric Skills
Use your interpersonal and communication skills as a financial professional to work successfully with clients. Business leaders consider employee communication skills and critical thinking abilities as essential elements for success.
Future Skills: the 20 skills and competencies everyone needs to succeed in a digital world
Future-proof yourself and develop critical skills for the digital future The working world has changed dramatically in the last twenty years and it's going to continue to transform at an even faster pace.
Thinking Like a Lawyer: a framework for teaching critical thinking to all students
Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in reality, critical thinking is still a luxury good, and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least.
Critical Thinking in Academic Writing
The book inquires into critical thinking through a cultural approach. Based on an ethnographic study, it compares Chinese postgraduate students' conceptualisations and applications of critical thinking in three different settings in China and the UK.
Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century
In Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century, Stephen Reed discusses a Future of Jobs report that contrasts trending and declining skills required by the workforce in the year 2022. Trending skills include analytical thinking and innovation, active learning strategies, creativity, reasoning, and complex problem solving.
The Entrepreneurial Humanities: the crucial role of the humanities in enterprise and the economy
This book explores how a humanities background can enable entrepreneurs to thrive. Across all levels of education, students are given the message that to change the world - or make money - the arts and humanities are not the subjects to study. At the same time, discussions of innovation and entrepreneurship highlight the importance of essential skills, such as critical thinking ...
HBR Guide to Critical Thinking
Listen to this book instead: https://search.lib.jmu.edu/permalink/01JMU_INST/lvvpvt/cdi_safari_books_v2_9781663722614
Tackle complex situations with critical thinking.You're facing a problem at work. There are many ways you can approach the situation, but each comes with its own pros and cons.
Critical Thinking for Managers
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.
A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics
This book encapsulates new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics.