Chapter 16 - Thinking Skills on the Job

Standards of judgment.

• Prioritize

• Consequence

• Analogy

• Criteria

An effect or outcome of a decision.

• consequence

• procrastinate

• criteria

• logic

To put off deciding.

• brainstorm

• procrastinate

• assumptions

• prioritize

To order tasks from most to least important.

• analogy

• criteria

• prioritize

• logic

To come up with many different ideas without judging them.

• brainstorm

• logic

• analogy

• assumptions

Seeming similarity between one thing and another that are otherwise dissimilar.

• consequence

• analogy

• criteria

• logic

Beliefs you take for granted.

• analogy

• assumptions

• logic

• consequence

Valid reasoning.

• logic

• criteria

• consequence

• assumptions

When considering the consequences of a decision you are making at work, ask yourself:

• What risks and rewards are involved?

• How does this decision directly affect me?

• How does this decision affect my team, department, and company?

• all of the above

To evaluate solutions, you must usually:

• procrastinate

• list tasks in order

• ignore risks to yourself

• predict possible consequences