My name is Christopher Peter and welcome to The Christopher Peter Review.
The skill of critical thinking is important not just in the workplace, but with every big decision we make in our lives. Where we choose to live. What organizations to associate ourselves with. The people that we continue to permit to be in our social sphere.
The skill of critical thinking is critically important when we select the people empowered to guide our nation, economy, society, and represent our interests and people globally. In any job interview, people vetting candidates seek to get past the manicured profile and documents in front of them to understand how much of what they are reading and hearing are true representations of the candidate in front of them. They ask questions to piece the veil of professional marketing to see their best guess of who really is the candidate and how much of the message aligns with their needs.
The skill of a good procurement person is the ability to work through the marketing brochures and the skilled sales speak of the team assigned to their region or account to get a realistic idea of what the product or service offering really is, the reliability of those offerings, and how well it fits the needs to the end users who will use them. There are many times where the sales presentations includes information that really offers nothing to the reality of the product or services and how it will function when it is used. Might sound nice but not actually impactful. So they sort of information that is relevant and quantifiable to measure against competing offers.
The important aspect is understanding the true offerings, actual value, and if there is a fit. Important decisions should not be made on the premise that the person seemed nice or really wanted the job. Rather how well they compared to the alternatives against the criteria of measures to determine the true fit. Requires us to look beyond the noise for the true message.
In the Critical Thinkers podcast episode, I talk about the importance of critical thinking with the team and see the importance in our society, economic decisions, and beyond. Please experience this podcast episode below.