COURSE 15 Volume 1 CHAPTER 4

Thinking that is purposeful, reasoned and goal directed involved in solving problems, formulating inferences, calculating likelihoods, and making

It is the cognitive ability to imagine and innovate

Thinking that results in efficiency, evolutionary, and revolutionary improvements and advancements

Thinking one demonstrates when confronted by unanticipated circumstances during the execution of a planned activity (i.e. military operation)

Thinking that concentrates on what we know, what we need to know, and how we bridge that gap

Thinking that requires generative thinking (divergent thinking): the development of ideas

The practice of visionaries, those who skillfully see desired goals and outcomes through their mind’s eye

ability to combine or compile various pieces of information, ideas, concepts, conclusions, etc. in new and different ways