Author: Richard Wells

Effective Leaders have great thinking habits.  Good thinking distinguishes good leaders from mere title holders with prescribed authority.  Their teams excel because of these leader leverage areas:  thinking competence, coaching team members and creation of a climate of trust. Our Critical Thinking framework incorporates research into what distinguishes leaders with excellent reputations as problem solvers and decision makers.  This previous research studied notable successes reverse engineering them to reveal a common approach. The common thread was a thinking approach anyone can learn - the ability to apply logical, fact-based questions organized by purpose, to focus thinking, pulling together available information…