Reflection on Different Thinking Styles
|Portfolio 3 |
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|Reflection on Different Thinking Styles |
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|1/24/2010 |
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|Ashish R Mehta |
Reflections on Different Thinking Styles
T.H Huxley, an English biologist says very well that “While the need for both logical and creative thinking is clear, this does place strategists in a rather awkward position of needing to bring two partially contradicting forms of thinking together in one strategic reasoning process”1. Creating a common conducive environment for both kind of thinking is difficult. However awkward it may be to find a right balance between logical and creative thinking, the fact is that the strategic thinking is the combination of analytical and critical thinking. Depending on the nature of business environment, the strategic decision making involves a right balance between the critical thinking and analytical thinking.
Strategic problems are the real time problems, which are more relative and volatile to external trends of triple bottom line; Economy, Social and Environment. Finding the solutions to these problems needs creativity and the critical thinking provides this aspect. However as Mr Kenichi Ohmai says”Strategists do not reject analysis, Indeed they can hardly do without it”2, the strategic thinking needs analytical thinking as its part. The Analytical thinking known for its decisiveness and clarity is best suited to test or
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|Reflection on Different Thinking Styles |
| |
|1/24/2010 |
| |
|Ashish R Mehta |
Reflections on Different Thinking Styles
T.H Huxley, an English biologist says very well that “While the need for both logical and creative thinking is clear, this does place strategists in a rather awkward position of needing to bring two partially contradicting forms of thinking together in one strategic reasoning process”1. Creating a common conducive environment for both kind of thinking is difficult. However awkward it may be to find a right balance between logical and creative thinking, the fact is that the strategic thinking is the combination of analytical and critical thinking. Depending on the nature of business environment, the strategic decision making involves a right balance between the critical thinking and analytical thinking.
Strategic problems are the real time problems, which are more relative and volatile to external trends of triple bottom line; Economy, Social and Environment. Finding the solutions to these problems needs creativity and the critical thinking provides this aspect. However as Mr Kenichi Ohmai says”Strategists do not reject analysis, Indeed they can hardly do without it”2, the strategic thinking needs analytical thinking as its part. The Analytical thinking known for its decisiveness and clarity is best suited to test or