MGT 350 Critical Thinking Application Model

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Critical Thinking - Application Paper MGT/350 Critical Thinking - Application Paper Hind sight is 20/20 so it is said, but if a person learns to use critical thinking, hind sight would not be used as an excuse for when final decisions go awry. Dictionary.com defines critical thinking as “the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion” (2013). To develop critical thinking one must not take anything at face value or draw conclusions without obtaining all of the facts and evaluating it to reach a conclusion or decision. One must keep an open mind when trying to expand on becoming a critical thinker. The way a person thinks is based on who the person is along with the barriers a person has acquired from various aspects of his life. Critical thinking needs to be developed acknowledging all of the barriers while continuing to strive for fair-mindedness. Personal Barriers “Who we are is how we think. Where and how we were raised may determine whether we are pessimists or optimists, conservatives or liberals, atheists or…show more content…
Only by acknowledging all the personal and impersonal influences can a person keep focused on thinking critically to determine a conclusion based on fair-mindedness. Do not take what is heard at face value; allow critical thinking to enter into the thought process to sort through what are fallacies and facts. “Critical Thinking can be seen as a tool with certain components to handle information. It involves a particular way in which information is treated” (Haase, 2010, para. 7). If critical thinking had been applied initially in the situation discussed in the above section, the perceived outcome would have been positive from the onset. Critical thinking when used as a foundation for decision- making leads to positive management in the

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