Examples of lateral thinking in the following topics:
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- However, the new adhesive was later used on Post-it notes—a great innovation and business success for the company.
- The classic example of a company that completely transformed itself as a result of lateral thinking is the Finnish company Nokia, whose original core business was wood pulp and logging.
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- Creativity has been associated with right-brain or fore-brain activity, as well as specifically with lateral thinking.
- It also allows a person to think up something that does not exist, or think about something that does exist and portray it in various mediums, such as painting, sculpture, or other kinds of art.
- Counterfactual thinking is viewed as an example of everyday creative processes.
- Guilford (1897 - 1987) pioneered the distinction between convergent and divergent thinking as it applies to creative thinking.
- Convergent thinking involves aiming for a single, correct solution to a problem, whereas divergent thinking involves the creative generation of multiple answers to a problem.
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- Think of the results section as the cold, hard facts.
- Be objective—there will be time for interpretation later.
- Think of it as laying the foundation for what you will conclude later on in your paper.
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- Cognition changes over a person's lifespan, peaking at around age 35 and slowly declining in later adulthood.
- Research has found that adults who engage in mentally and physically stimulating activities experience less cognitive decline in later adult years and have a reduced incidence of mild cognitive impairment and dementia (Hertzog, Kramer, Wilson, & Lindenberger, 2009; Larson et al., 2006; Podewils et al., 2005).
- Unlike earlier concrete thinking, this kind of thinking is characterized by the ability to think in abstract ways, engage in deductive reasoning, and create hypothetical ideas to explain various concepts.
- This kind of thinking includes the ability to think in dialectics, and differentiates between the ways in which adults and adolescents are able to cognitively handle emotionally charged situations.
- Early adulthood is a time of relativistic thinking, in which young people begin to become aware of more than simplistic views of right vs. wrong.
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- Lean thinking (also known as lean manufacturing) is a business philosophy that demands the total and systematic elimination of waste from every process, every department and every aspect of an organization.
- With lean thinking, however, waste is not defined as ‘not obtaining 100% from purchases and investments'.
- Instead, waste is defined as ‘the use or loss of any resource that does not lead directly to what it is that customers want' – and what customers want, say the advocates of lean thinking, is value.
- The Dell Computer Company is a classic example of a company that embraces the lean-thinking concept.
- From the onset, one of Dell's major production expenses involved maintaining a supply of parts to manufacture its products, but since these parts are designed for use in a variety of configurations every single one is always used sooner or later.
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- In November 2009, lean-thinking guru Jim Womack described in a newsletter an experience he had while touring a large service company.
- A short time later, in a different area, another team moaned about the resistance generated by the finance department over the same changes.
- Such is what all too often happens with internal and external customers when managers or teams choose to think by themselves and then broadcast edicts rather than work collaboratively with every stakeholder.
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- If you're thinking, "Why would I want to do something so stressful?"
- If you think about it that way, public speaking can be satisfying on a personal level.
- Public speaking is also a great way to build critical thinking skills.
- Thinking in this way is a great exercise for improving general communication skills.
- Give audience members the option of getting in touch with you at a later date by listing contact information on handouts or slides.
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- It is characterized by the idea that infants "think" by manipulating the world around them.
- This involves the ability to reproduce or repeat a previously-witnessed action later on; rather than copying it right away, the child is able to produce a mental representation of it and repeat the behavior later on.
- They are not able to take on the perspective of others, and they think that everyone sees, thinks, and feels just like they do.
- They still think in very linear ways and can only conceptualize ideas that can be observed directly—they have not yet mastered abstract thinking (described below).
- As with other major contributors of theories of development, several of Piaget’s ideas have been challenged by later research.
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- The molecular approach to microbial phylogenetic analysis revolutionized our thinking about evolution in the microbial world.
- The molecular approach to microbial phylogenetic analysis revolutionized our thinking about evolution in the microbial world.
- This uncertainty was due to the lack of distinctive structures in most bacteria, as well as lateral gene transfer between unrelated species.
- As more genome sequences become available, scientists have found that determining these relationships is complicated by the prevalence of lateral gene transfer (LGT) among archaea and bacteria.
- Due to lateral gene transfer, some closely related bacteria can have very different morphologies and metabolisms.
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- The steps of the scientific method will be examined in detail later, but one of the most important aspects of this method is the testing of hypotheses (testable statements) by means of repeatable experiments.
- To do this, they use two methods of logical thinking: inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning.
- Inductive reasoning is a form of logical thinking that uses related observations to arrive at a general conclusion.
- In deductive reason, the pattern of thinking moves in the opposite direction as compared to inductive reasoning.
- The fuzzy boundary becomes apparent when thinking about how easily observation can lead to specific questions.