Reasoning for Business

The Inquirer's Guide to Decision Making
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-08807-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Critical thinking skills are important in decision making, but they’re not enough.

This book offers a kit of conceptual tools that empower you—an already savvy thinker—to advance your ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, and learn quickly. Weaving together insights from both philosophy and psychology and more than a decade of work with professionals and leaders at all levels of businesses, government agencies, and NGOs, Haywood Spangler has written the inquirer’s guide to the universe of sources offering guidance regarding civic, personal, and professional choices, from self-help books, to TEDTalks, to periodicals, financial planners, psychologists, and successful entrepreneurs. Rather than providing oversimplified constructs or generic answers, his book expands your perspective and thought processes, applying concepts from philosophy based on people’s actual questions, needs and challenges. It functions as a handbook, enabling the reader to consult specific chapters as needed, and as a comprehensive guide to developing personal judgment.

This book is for business leaders looking for strategies to vet the results of AI queries, HR managers wanting to be discerning in their use of data, analysts and forecasters needing a realistic understanding of statistically-based predictions—and any professional who selects tools critically to assess trends impacting their life.

Zielgruppe

Adult education and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spangler, Haywood

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Entscheidungsfindung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1:  Introduction: The Problem All Advice Seekers Face. Chapter 2:  What Does It Mean to Say Something is True? Navigating Public Discourse. Chapter 3: Is Forecasting Fortune Telling? The Limits of Moving from Specific to General. Chapter 4: What is an Idea’s Cash Value? Behavioral Science and Pragmatism. Chapter 5: How Do I Know I’m Doing the Right Thing?  Trusting Your Own Judgment. Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Haywood Spangler, Ph.D., M.Div., is the founder and principal of Work & Think, LLC. He is a corporate consultant, a researcher, and an author, and was formerly a biomedical ethicist at the University of Virginia Medical Center as well as an instructor of business ethics at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce.