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Provide an example of an organizational decision that would have benefited from using CT tools and techniques. Explain your reasoning.

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A discussion on how critical thinking could have improved a decision making process that created problems for a company.

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Recently the school I work for decided to (for reasons specified in an audit) add a new professor to the roster to accommodate a suggestion by the accreditation agency that a PhD be on campus during all class times. The problem is, in doing so, two people were replaced and both were PhDs, though without their dissertations complete.

The school should have allocated the proper resources to research the problems. The school could have decided to meet the necessary rule by adding a class rather than breaking a contract with two professors ...

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