Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills

Well structured, useful, imaginative and complete in itself. Yet one would advise to read it chunk by chunk rather a la prima.

I asked my dad what skill would benefit me in the future, and he said the ability to solve problems. Then I chose this book to read. The book was very eye-opening to me. Everyone always assumes they know how to think critically until they are challenged on that topic. This book showed me how lacking I was in that. This book kept me intrigued as it is one of the skills, I believe you have to be capable of to be successful. One great aspect of the book it presents challenges within the pages to teach you in those moments, I never would’ve expected a “problem” within a book of this nature. It helped break the book up and give you a break from the reading.The fact that he gives you exercises at the end of almost every chapter is awesome and gives you a way to improve outside of the book. It gives everyone a route to master the skills if they aren’t able to just by reading it.Overall, a great read, and one that I will employ in my business career!

I love this book and I started reading over and over. It shapes my knowledge and helps me to see the world in intellectual way by having a better judgment.

Think Smarter is a concise, approachable guide for practicing critical thinking in everyday life - both at work and at home. By engaging the reader with real world examples, Kallet ensures that his Headscratcher principles are easily understood and applied. This book is a great read and motivator in its entirety, and a handy reference to have on the shelf when you find yourself facing a particularly puzzling problem. I would urge every business school professor to add this book to their recommended reading list, and every manager or individual contributor to keep a copy on hand. You'll never regret reading it, but you might waste hours of time coming to the wrong conclusion if you don't!

Deliberate, manual approach to facilitate critical thinking is unfortunately not the norm for many organizations. Think Smarter provides clarity and simple to understand thinking frameworks to enable critical thinking.

Michael Kallet has packaged the subject of critical thinking in a way that helps organize your approach to managing problems and identifying solutions. This 3 step process magnifies the way we do anything from a ready-shot-aim method to a ready-aim-shoot method. It actually requires you move from default thinking (which is the same old way) to identifying the components behind assumptions in order to validate your conclusions. This makes is doable and brings positive results to your business. Love this book!!!!!! And Mike has a real hands on way of walking you through it.

This a good addition to one's collection of critical thinking books. Has lots of application on business and personal life. It's always important to study and revise on critical thinking to avoid falling into the trap of too much emotions in decision making.

I can definitely see the benefit to using critical thinking in many aspects of life. Though I manually have been doing this for many things already, it will be very valuable to intentionally practice critical thinking with the help ideas from this book

It helps to understand techniques to organize ideas, how to build premises, get into conclusions and make more intelligent decisions.

I work in the projects department in an Oil & Gas company in Alberta, Canada. This book has given me a practical but yet conceptual approach on how to look at problems, projects, cases, discussions, and conversations as realistic as possible. I use it almost daily. It takes time to digest the concepts at first although they are familiar ideas. The book is worth every cent. I wish Mike would make a podcast around the same topic. Thank you Mike for writing such a great book!

Not a life changing book - But very concise, straight to the point, easy to read and well written book.

Très bonne qualité

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