Having the skills of critical thinking leads to success in business and impacts the quality of your communications. You engage in business discussions based on reason rather than emotion. There can be a great deal of stress in some business environments. Under pressure it is easy to let emotions overpower reason. With critical thinking you become self aware, you understand your own biases, assumptions and built in prejudices. These characteristics can bring out emotion. These skills also takes some of the pressure off because it allows you to identify what facts, data, information and opinions are most relevant to the matter at hand. Your are not searching for what to say.
Add in good judgement, open mindedness and discipline, and you have what it takes to be a critical thinker. This has a tremendous impact on the clarity of your communications. So much of business in highly interactive and "of the moment". You have to think on your feet. Critical thinking on your feet gets the point across because you can identify, construct and evaluate your argument. People like to work around critical thinkers because they know they are heard and that what they say will be considered. It also "keeps them on their toes". Critical thinking can build a career and it can grow a company.
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