Clear and Creative Thinking:

Opening Your Mind to Clear Thinking
Developing a Whole-Picture Perspective
Incremental Thinking
Transformational Thinking
Timing a Strategy Shift
Combining Reasoning and Emotion

Generating Alternative Ideas
Sparking Your Creative Imagination
Tapping into Your Inner Wisdom
Using Analytical Reasoning
Understanding Systems Thinking
Sharing Perspectives with Others

Evaluating Alternatives on Their Merits
The ?Six Lens? Approach
Technical Lens
Economic Lens
Ethical-Legal Lens
Environmental Lens
Power-Political Lens
Social-Psychological Lens

Putting Plans into Action
Determining a Decision-Making Strategy
Implementing Decisions
Learning from Your Experiences
Translating Your Thinking into Action

After completing this course, students will know how to:

Explain how clear thinking can open the reader?s mind to new ways of looking at problems and opportunities Explore creative and analytical techniques for generating fresh possibilities Illustrate the role that values, culture, and goals have in resolving an issue successfully Help readers understand and select appropriate strategies for implementing decisions

Prerequisites