Thinking Fast

An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Decision-Making

If leaders can embrace the responsibility for making good, fast, frequent decisions, and can do so better than their competitors, they’ll have an important strategic advantage. This is simple enough to say, but how can a decision maker rapidly assess a situation, gather needed information, consider it thoroughly, and reach an intelligent conclusion? How can one make good, fast, frequent, winning decisions?

This course offers a four-step process designed to help you make smarter decisions for today’s fast-paced business world. Learners will explore how to make a quality decision using a four-stage framework, and then apply it to the Todd Racing Case—and discover how teams get tripped up in their decision making about that case.