Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills Hardcover – April 7, 2014

I asked my dad what skill would benefit me in the future, and he said the ability to solve problems. Then I chose this book to read. The book was very eye-opening to me. Everyone always assumes they know how to think critically until they are challenged on that topic. This book showed me how lacking I was in that. This book kept me intrigued as it is one of the skills, I believe you have to be capable of to be successful. One great aspect of the book it presents challenges within the pages to teach you in those moments, I never would’ve expected a “problem” within a book of this nature. It helped break the book up and give you a break from the reading.The fact that he gives you exercises at the end of almost every chapter is awesome and gives you a way to improve outside of the book. It gives everyone a route to master the skills if they aren’t able to just by reading it.Overall, a great read, and one that I will employ in my business career!

Think Smarter is a concise, approachable guide for practicing critical thinking in everyday life - both at work and at home. By engaging the reader with real world examples, Kallet ensures that his Headscratcher principles are easily understood and applied. This book is a great read and motivator in its entirety, and a handy reference to have on the shelf when you find yourself facing a particularly puzzling problem. I would urge every business school professor to add this book to their recommended reading list, and every manager or individual contributor to keep a copy on hand. You'll never regret reading it, but you might waste hours of time coming to the wrong conclusion if you don't!

Well structured, useful, imaginative and complete in itself. Yet one would advise to read it chunk by chunk rather a la prima.

Michael Kallet has packaged the subject of critical thinking in a way that helps organize your approach to managing problems and identifying solutions. This 3 step process magnifies the way we do anything from a ready-shot-aim method to a ready-aim-shoot method. It actually requires you move from default thinking (which is the same old way) to identifying the components behind assumptions in order to validate your conclusions. This makes is doable and brings positive results to your business. Love this book!!!!!! And Mike has a real hands on way of walking you through it.

I love this book and I started reading over and over. It shapes my knowledge and helps me to see the world in intellectual way by having a better judgment.

This book is a great read!!! Mike's program was instrumental in a previous organization that I was a part of at changing the culture around executive decision making. His process is clear and easy to follow. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to develop or hone their critical thinking skills.Way to go Mike!!! Your learners have been waiting for your wisdom in a book.

Deliberate, manual approach to facilitate critical thinking is unfortunately not the norm for many organizations. Think Smarter provides clarity and simple to understand thinking frameworks to enable critical thinking.

totally love this book. It is very pratical and everything mentioned on the book is applicable to my everyday working. This do help me improve my thinking ability and somehow I think this is very helpful. Additionally, I like the way the author expain the point by simple word which very easy to follow. 5 Starts !