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Critical thinking is a process of “conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating To improve your critical thinking, both in the MBA program and in your future career, the faculty
information…” (criticalthinking.org). Critical thinking is different from other types of cognition in at Neeley have designed The Neeley FROG Model for Critical Thinking. It’s a simple model for
that critical thinkers specifically: use in critical thinking situations, including decision making, problem solving or the assessment
• Acknowledge the complexity of decisions. of implementation issues. The questions contained within each step in the model are not fixed
or exclusive (i.e., some situations will require additional questions, others may require fewer
• Understand that information is rarely complete.
questions), but they should get you started in your critical thinking process.
• Are motivated by facts, observations, and reasoning rather than emotion, habits or heuristics.
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Frame Recognize
the Issue Possible Approaches
• Is there one best approach? • How will you communicate the logic behind • What did you learn about your process? • What would you do differently next time?
• Or could there be a combination of the decision (why and how you chose
• Did you define the issues at hand well • What does this process teach you about your
approaches (i.e., move from “either/or” to this decision, including quantitative and
enough given the information available? approach to handling messy situations?
“and” thinking)? qualitative justification)?
• Was there additional information you should • If you found issues that relate to your
• When and how should a particular approach • To whom do you need to communicate the
have identified? mindset, how will you address these issues
be implemented? decision?
• Did you generate the right set of going forward?
• Is there a particular sequence of actions • When and how will this information be
approaches?
needed to ensure your approach is communicated?
• Did you select the right approach?
successful?
• If so, how do you know?
• What might go wrong in implementing a
particular approach? • If not, why not?
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Attributes of a
Intellectually curious
Deeply understands domain knowledge that can be used to resolve the issues presented, which
includes the ability to correctly choose the most relevant or applicable domain knowledge. Self-
motivated to understand or figure out the issue at hand for the simple pleasure of learning.