The Resource Guide is created by Grace Liu and Gabriella Velazquez
Updated on Janurary 8, 2022
The courses selected can be audited for free and you can find the audit instructions for Coursera and Edx courses.
Leadership and Critical Thinking Specialization (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
This Specialized Program is aimed at leaders who are interested in consolidating their leadership and critical thinking skills within an organization, positively impacting organizational behavior and human flourishing.
Critical thinking: reasoned decision making (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
In this course of critical thinking the students will learn the tendencies, approximations and assumptions on which their reflections are based, and the conditions and the outcomes derived from their ways of thinking. This reflective thought is the active, careful and persistent examination of all beliefs in the light of the fundamentals that support them and their conclusions.
Overcoming Bias (University of California, Irvine)
This course is for anyone that wants to learn more about bias and how it can affect business, relationships, and communities. The course begins with an exploration of the word bias and its many definitions. The course then covers workplace bias and strategies for overcoming personal bias. The course ends with an activity in which the learner creates an action plan for a bias free workplace.
Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking Specialization (Duke University)
By taking Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking you will improve your ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and also to construct arguments of your own in order to convince others and to help you decide what to believe or do. This specialization introduces general standards of good reasoning and offers tools to improve your critical thinking skills.
Mindware: Critical Thinking for the Information Age (University of Michigan)
Most professions these days require more than general intelligence. They require in addition the ability to collect, analyze and think about data. Personal life is enriched when these same skills are applied to problems in everyday life involving judgment and choice. This course presents basic concepts from statistics, probability, scientific methodology, cognitive psychology and cost-benefit theory and shows how they can be applied to everything from picking one product over another to critiquing media accounts of scientific research.
Creative Thinking: Techniques and Tools for Success (Imperial College London)
This course will equip you with a ‘tool-box’, introducing you to a selection of behaviors and techniques that will augment your innate creativity. Some of the tools are suited to use on your own and others work well for a group, enabling you to leverage the power of several minds. You can pick and choose which of these tools or techniques suit your needs and interests, focusing on some or all of the selected approaches and in the order that fits best for you.
Critical thinking: reasoned decision making (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
Learn to analyze events with intellectual rigor. Identify how reasoned decisions help cope with change.
Models help us to better organize information - to make sense of that fire hose or hairball of data (choose your metaphor) available on the Internet. Models improve our abilities to make accurate forecasts. They help us make better decisions and adopt more effective strategies. They even can improve our ability to design institutions and procedures. In this class, I present a starter kit of models: I start with models of tipping points. I move on to cover models that explain the wisdom of crowds, models that show why some countries are rich and some are poor, and models that help unpack the strategic decisions of firms and politicians.
In this interactive Harvard Business Review webinar, Sunstein shares insights from this new book, offers tactics and lessons to help leaders avoid the pitfalls associated with group decision making, and provides specific ways to reach better outcomes.
Thinking About Your Thinking: Understanding The Ladder Of Inference (Wisconsin School of Business.)
In an ever-changing world we are under constant pressure to make decisions and act quickly. To expedite our thinking process, we use our beliefs, assumptions, and experiences to process new information. When we do this, we’re running information up our Ladder of Inference and are at risk of jumping to conclusions.
Marc Andreessen on Change, Constraints, and Curiosity (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
If you want to be successful as a venture capitalist, you need to be ruthlessly open-minded, constantly re-examining your assumptions, shared Andreessen Horowitz Cofounder and Partner Marc Andreessen.
The Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger and the transcript
Audio of the often referred to speech by Charlie Munger on the psychology of human misjudgement given to an audience at Harvard University circa Jun 1995. Mr. Munger speaks about the framework for decision making and the factors contributing to misjudgements.
Dan Lovallo and Olivier Sibony from McKinsey & Company described their research into organizational decision making and their guidelines for confronting bias and improving bottom-line decisions.
Michael Virardi talks about transforming our thinking from merely chasing end-goals to enjoying the process. Using personal stories and experiences, Michael talks us through the importance of discovering those intangible conditions that are deep inside each of us which can help us to grasp the elusive nature of success both in business and in life.
Pushing the Limits of Collective Intelligence
Imagine a collective brain shaped by human insights and powered by technology – that’s crowdsourcing. Michael Bernstein, computer scientist at Stanford University, explores how to harness crowdsourcing to tackle daunting challenges. In this episode of Stanford Innovation Lab, Tina Seelig meets with Michael to discuss examples of successful crowdsourcing, tools to gather collective insights, and the evolving relationship between humans and machines.
Life Hacks for Breakthrough Thinking (Stanford eCorner)
Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack, co-authors of the book “The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking,” share tips on how we can train ourselves to have more “eureka” moments with mental exercises that awaken more regions of our brains and build our comfort level with failure and uncertainty — two givens on the way to innovation.
You can search Harvard Business Review to learn more articles on this topic. You can also check if your university library has a subscription to the Business Source Complete database, which provides full-text access to Harvard Business Review articles, or use the library’s interlibrary loan service to access the article.
A Cognitive Trick for Solving Problems Creatively
Many experts argue that creative thinking requires people to challenge their preconceptions and assumptions about the way the world works. One common claim, for example, is that the mental shortcuts we all rely on to solve problems get in the way of creative thinking. How can you innovate if your thinking is anchored in past experience?
When making decisions, we all rely too heavily on intuition and use flawed reasoning sometimes. But it’s possible to fight these pernicious sources of bias by learning to spot them and using the techniques presented in this article, gleaned from the latest research....
How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams
Companies spend millions on antibias training each year in hopes of creating more-inclusive—and thereby innovative and effective—workforces. Studies show that well-managed diverse groups perform better and are more committed, have higher collective…
The Cognitive Bias Keeping Us from Innovating
Any five-year-old has no trouble turning an old blanket and a couple of chairs into an impenetrable fort. But as we get older, knowledge and experience increasingly displace imagination and our ability to see an object for anything other than its original purpose. This is called Functional Fixedness and while you probably won’t need to build a fort during your professional career, chances are you do suffer from it and it is impacting your work. How can I be so sure? Well … you’re human, right?...
Research has shown that reflection boosts productivity. Yet few leaders make time for it. Why? For one, they often don’t know where to start. You can become more reflective by practicing a few simple steps. Start by identifying a few important questions.
Psychology of Human Misjudgment (Transcript) by Charlie Munger
Be Your Own Hero | Jennifer Lyle
Inspiring story of an entrepreneur following her dream of being a small business owner, and the barriers she overcame to get there.
Click the link to find a Worldcat book record; enter a zipcode to check which library nearby has the book you can borrow. When the record is not available, a link to Amazon is provided.
Badaracco, Joseph. Step Back: How to Bring the Art of Reflection into Your Busy Life. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020. Print.
Fuller, Pamela, Mark W. Murphy, and Anne Chow. The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams. 2020. Print.
Grant, Adam M. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know. New York: Viking, 2021. Print.
Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. 2015. Print.
Kahneman, Daniel, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. 2021. Print.
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