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2. Who Needs Critical Thinking?

Author : Radu Atanasiu

Published in: Critical Thinking for Managers

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Critical thinking is on everybody’s lips. Employers think it is one of the most important skills employees should have (The World Economic Forum. (2016). The Future of Jobs. https://reports.weforum.org/future-of-jobs-2016/), schools increasingly include it in their curricula, and self-actualizing people read books such as this one or attend online courses about it. But what is it? And what is it not?

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Title: Who Needs Critical Thinking?
Author: Radu Atanasiu
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Critical Thinking for Managers
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-73599-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-73600-2

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73600-2_2