Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

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Critical Thinking
Critical thinking and Problem solving
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12/4/2018

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Critical thinking and Problem solving
Introduction
Strategic thinking is the process of generation as well as application of business
visions on a recurrent basis for achieving competitive advantage over others. Strategic
thinking is the key to many problems of many areas like business, education, health and
economy (University of Florida training and organization, 2018). This discussion is focusing
on understanding the definition of strategic thinking, its significance and its utilization as
well. Strategic thinking is important for getting purpose clarity, inclusive direction and
potential goals or objectives in an effective team or organization. It provides the capability to
see as well as articulate the clearer picture of us, and where are we heading. Besides, strategic
thinking is a basic hope of leadership and experts insist that utilising this skill always provide
effective leadership (Book Boon, 2010).
Understanding and using strategic thinking
Strategic thinking is applicable to business insights for creating an action plan for
achieving set objectives and goals. We can say in other words that strategic thinking is a new
lens to vision the business. Application of strategic thinking does not add more work but it
enhances the vision of the work as well as improves an individual’s capability of performing
(Goldman, 2012).
In order to understand strategic thinking the three functions of mind are used, those
are feeling, thinking and wanting. The above mentioned functions are interdependent, which
means that change in any one of them will produce a parallel shifting in the rest two. For an
example, if I am thinking that someone is insulting on me, then I will definitely feel some
resentment with the desire of responding to that insult. Strategic thinking is the way to
identify an irrational thinking so that it can be modified into a rational as well as reasonable
thinking. In this way, discovering irrational thinking and then modifying that with more
reasonable thinking by using more reasonable substitutes for the irrational desires or
emotions, is a kind of using strategic thinking. Hence, after replacing irrational by rational
thinking one will experience shifts in their emotions or desires. Additionally, more reasonable