Critical Thinking in Analysis: Ten Elements of Thought
People think of Critical Thinking as 'Thinking Hard' but its actually evaluating the quality of your thought.
Analyst Training
Structured Thinking: The “Secret” Weapon of Analysts
You don't need to learn a new tool or a new method of conducting analysis. You need a structured disciplined framework to guide your efforts.
Training That Works — and Why Some Training Doesn’t
An evaluation of why some professional training doesn't work, and why some does.
A Prepared Mind Makes Its Own Luck: Preparation, Structure, and Analytical Thinking
Luck is the combination of random chance, plus preparation, plus the decision to act. Knowledge and experience increases the surface area of luck; strucutred decision making helps us act.
Mistakes in Analysis: What to do When You're Wrong
The three Mind of effective analysis show us how to respond when we make a mistake or our conditions change. A mistake can be corrected, we just have to approach it the right way.
Analytical Thinking: Seek Understanding by Controlling Your Mindset
An effective analyst knows how to identify and shift between mindset as needed to accomplish their task. The Curious Mind, The Prepared Mind, and the Judicious Mind all compliment eachother and aide throughout the analytical process.