Lecture Art of Leadership and Motivation - Lecture 11

After this chapter the student should have acquired the following knowledge and skills: Turn a group of individuals into a collaborative team that achieves high performance through shared mission and collective responsibility; develop and apply the personal qualities of effective team leadership for traditional, virtual, and global teams;...

Prof Dr Mohammad Majid Mahmood

Art of Leadership & Motivation

HRM – 760 Lecture ­ 11

Critical Thinking   –  

a critical skill for effective leaders

• The landscape of the mind.

• The software of the brain.

• Food, Pie, a computer, keeps the doctor  away, etc.

Language

“Until you KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW ’ you

do not own your knowledge, and so you

do not know anything.”

Critical Thinking

probably why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

their intellectual fat.

William Lyon

 The human mind once stretched by a new idea

never goes back to its original dimensions Oliver Wendell

Homes

CRITICAL THINKING

Critical Thinking

Knowledge

The Power of Knowledge

 We should have knowledge in an area to think critically about the area

 There is no substitute for information, facts,

assumptions, and data in critical thinking

Critical Thinking

Dispositions

 Anticipating situations that require reasoning

 Confident in reasoning ability

 Curious

 Wants to know the truth

 Open to others point of views

 Aware of biases

Developing Critical Thinking Skills

 Interpretation –

clarifying meaning

 Analysis –

examining ideas, identifying

arguments, analyzing arguments

Developing Critical Thinking Skills

 Inference –

drawing conclusions

Developing Critical Thinking Skills

 Explanation –

stating results, justifying

procedures, presenting arguments

Developing Critical Thinking Skills

 Self-regulation –

self examination, self correction

Developing Critical Thinking Skills

Critical Thinking

“It’s true because  I  believe it”  ( innate egocentrism )

“It’s true because  we  believe it” ( innate sociocentrism )

“It’s true because  I want  to believe it” ( innate wish fulfillment )

“It’s true because I  have always believed it ” ( innate self­

validation )

“It’s true because it is  in my selfish interest  to believe it.”   

( innate selfishness )

• Your Mind is Your Most Important Weapon:

– With a good one, other weapons are more useful, sometimes unnecessary

– With a poor one, other weapons are useless to 

achieve victory

– Exercise your brain as well as your body

• You are only as good as your mind­­it is your best weapon for survival

• Knowledge is a force multiplier and the key to 

successful adaptation

• Learn how to learn for yourself

Thinking & Winning

• You must PRACTICE good thinking skills—they don’t happen by accident

• If you don’t do it, it won’t get done

• If not now, when?  If not here where? If not you, who?

In thinking critically, 

we take command of the meanings 

we create.

“Sometimes when I consider what  tremendous consequences come from  little things … I am tempted to think 

… there are no little things”

Bruce Barton

Thank you  for your kind attention! Thank you 

for your kind attention!

FACILITATOR

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Majid Mahmood Bagram