Critical Thinking and Decision Making: Fortune 500 Leaders from Udemy

Your ability to master critical thinking and decision making best practices will determine whether you reach your business and career goals in our increasingly-disrupted post-COVID future of work.

Yet traditional advice to "go with your gut" in critical thinking and decision making scenarios so often leads to disasters that devastate company bottom lines and bring down high-flying careers, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. So what are the best practices used by the leaders of Fortune 500 companies to make the right calls in even the toughest critical thinking and decision making scenarios to maximize company bottom lines and advance their own careers?

These leaders recognize that science has revealed how our typical approach to critical thinking and decision making situations suffers from systematic dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases. These mental blindspots often lead us into critical thinking and decision making disasters that drastically undermine our desired outcomes and goals. Fortunately, recent scholarship has shown effective yet counterintuitive strategies to enable you to defeat these cognitive biases and help optimize your bottom line and your career. In this course, you will learn about and address these dangerous judgment errors, while mastering techniques for all types of critical thinking and decision making scenarios drawing on cutting-edge behavioral science and real-world best practices from Fortune 500 company leaders to help you and your teams reach your professional goals.

After taking this course, you will:

Master critical thinking and decision making best practices used by Fortune 500 leaders to seize competitive advantage for their bottom line and career
Free yourself of constant ruminations, numerous grey zones, and blindspots that plague critical thinking and decision making skills, blocking your goal achievement
Develop a plan with specific next steps to adapt for yourself the best practices used by Fortune 500 leaders for critical thinking and decision making scenarios
Discover the dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases that lead to critical thinking and decision making disasters for your business objectives
Maximize your desired outcomes by defeating cognitive biases via science-based critical thinking and decision making techniques used by Fortune 500 leaders
Feel truly confident about whether you made the right call in your critical thinking and decision making skills to reach your business and career goals

Sounds too good to be true? These methods were successfully used by Aflac, Applied Materials, Entergy, Honda Over the last two decades, I trained the leaders at these Fortune 500 companies, as well as at numerous middle-market companies and quickly-growing startups as the CEO of the boutique future-proofing consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts. The secrets used by these companies will be revealed in this course.

Here’s a recent testimonial from John Elnitsky, the head of the nuclear division of Entergy, a company ranked #299 by Fortune, speaking about the impact of my training on the leaders of the nuclear industry:

“We at Entergy hired Dr. Gleb as the opening keynote speaker to set the tone for the annual nuclear utility industry conference, hoping he would give a wake-up call about the threats and risks facing us and what steps we can take to prepare. Well, what he delivered exceeded our expectations. His keynote was the talk of the conference, widely described by attendees as giving the nuclear industry ‘the kick in the pants we needed to jump-start critically important initiatives to address the threats he outlined.’ Thank you Dr. Gleb. ”

Here’s a recent testimonial from Harish Phadke, the Business Manager for the head of the North American Health division at Reckitt, a company ranked #326 by Fortune, about the impact of my training on the Reckitt North American Health Leadership Team:

“Dr. Gleb Tsipursky provided a truly outstanding virtual training on unconscious bias and future-proofing via emotional and social intelligence for the Reckitt North American Health Leadership Team. Exceeding our expectations, Dr Gleb customized his groundbreaking, behavioral science-driven training content to integrate our initiatives, policies, and case studies at Reckitt, expertly targeting our evolving needs. We are delighted to have met Dr. Gleb, and look forward to future opportunities to keep working with him on a training series for the organization. I highly recommend him for anyone who wants to get a rapid grasp of highly relevant topics which influence human behavior in the prevailing challenging times.”

Here's another recent testimonial by Susan Winchester, the Chief Human Resource Officer at Applied Materials, a Fortune 200 high-tech manufacturing company:

· “Hi, I'm Susan Winchester, and it's my delight and pleasure to tell you a little bit about our experience with Dr. Gleb. He had a big positive impact at Applied Materials. Our leaders and engineers love data-based, research-based insights, which is exactly what he brings. He hit it out of the park, and he used a team led process, which was incredibly engaging. He introduced us to a concept he created called asynchronous brainstorming. It was a process we used with hundreds and hundreds of leaders globally at the same time. We did this during our CEO kickoff session for our strategy work. In a very short amount of time, we were able to get great benefits. I also love the work he's doing to educate leaders around the power and positive benefits of hybrid and virtual working. And one of his techniques that I'm planning to use is what he calls “virtual coworking”, where you and as many coworkers as you'd like create a virtual meeting, no purpose or agenda, but rather just to be working with one another. I highly endorse Dr. Gleb's work with leadership teams.”

Besides such real-world, pragmatic expertise, I have a strong academic background as a behavioral scientist studying critical thinking, decision making, and related fields. I spent 8 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, first getting a PhD in the History of Behavioral Science and then serving as a lecturer there. Then, I spent 7 years as a professor at the Ohio State University, where I published dozens of peer-reviewed articles on this topic in high-quality academic journals such as Behavior and Social Issues and Journal of Social and Political Psychology. Thus, this course is thoroughly informed by cutting-edge research.

This combination of business and science led to my expertise gaining global recognition. I published over 650 articles and gave over 550 interviews to prominent venues. They include Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Fox News, USA Today, CBS News, CNBC, Time, Business Insider, Government Executive, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Inc. Magazine, and Fortune.

Further attesting to my global renown, my work was translated into Chinese, German, Russian, Korean, Polish, Spanish, French and other languages.

That's what you can expect in this course: methods used successfully by leaders at the biggest companies to seize competitive advantage for their bottom lines and careers, thoroughly informed by cutting-edge research, and featured in top media venues and best-selling books around the globe. The course features lessons with videos and assignments from the course materials textbook packet.

Course Content and Structure Overview

The course is self-paced, consisting of modules which the participants can complete any time they want.
For each module, participants in the course will first read book chapters from the textbook. Then, participants will answer questions in the book chapters. Each chapter has references for additional readings that participants are invited to check out for additional context on any concepts about which they wish to learn more.
Next, participants will watch the video for each segment, which uses case studies to apply the content of the readings to real-life scenarios.
After each video, the participants should journal for 20-30 minutes to answer the questions in the prompts.

This is an intermediate-level course: at least a year of real-world professional experience is required to appreciate the strategies and case studies outlined in the class.

I look forward to welcoming you into the world of evidence-based, science-driven techniques tested in the real world of many Fortune 500 companies and numerous middle-market companies and critical thinkings. To ensure that you master the best practices of Fortune 500 companies to help yourself seize competitive advantage for your bottom line and career in critical thinking and decision making skills, register now.

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· Learning Objective: Discover the structure of our minds and why typical decision making advice so often results in disasters, and how to use Fortune 500 best practices to get the best outcomes

· Learning Steps: Watch the video "Wise Decision Maker Manifesto." Then, read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of the best-selling book Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course materials textbook packet. Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

· Learning Objective: Take the "Assessment on Dangerous Judgment Errors in the Workplace," to help you learn which decision making cognitive biases are most problematic for you and your team

· Learning Steps: Watch the video "Assessment on Dangerous Judgment Errors in the Workplace." Then, take the assessment, which you should have as part of your course textbook materials packet. Score the assessment, evaluate your competencies and impact of the cognitive biases, and go through the process of deciding on next steps. If you are part of a team, encourage the team as a whole to take the assessment, discuss the results, and decide on next steps.

· Learning Objective: Master a technique for making quick and effective decisions on any choices where you just need a "good enough" answer

· Learning Steps: Watch the video "How to Make the Best Quick Decisions". Next, print out the decision aid for the "5 Questions" and put it in a prominent place by your computer. The decision aid is part of your course packet. The goal is to remind you to use these questions about any daily quick decision you don't want to screw up and need a good enough answer, the kind of decisions you make 2-5 times a day or even more, depending on your role. Then, read Chapter 2 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (as you know by now, it's in the course packet). Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

· Learning Objective: Master a technique for making major decisions where you or your team wants the best answer possible, rather than settling for "good enough"

· Learning Steps: Watch the video "Making the Best Major Decisions." get the manual for this topic from the course packet, and read through the manual. Next, print out the decision aid for this method and put it in a prominent place by your computer. Apply this process to a past major decision you made, and journal about what you might have done better if you applied this process. Apply this process to an upcoming or potential future decision and consider how you can make that decision better. Finally, read Chapter 3 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

Learning Objective: Master a technique for making complex decisions with a number of different options that each have certain strengths and weaknesses

Learning Steps: Watch the video "Making Complex Decisions Successfully." Then, get the manual for this topic from the course packet, and read through the manual. Next, print out the decision aid for this method and put it in a prominent place by your computer. Apply this process to a past complex decision you made, and journal about what you might have done better if you applied this process. Apply this process to an upcoming or potential future decision and consider how you can make that decision better. Finally, read Chapter 4 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

Learning Objective: Master a technique for avoiding failures and maximizing success when implementing major and/or complex decisions and strategies

Learning Steps: Watch the video "Avoiding Failure & Maximizing Success in Implementing Major Decisions." Then, get the manual for this topic from the course packet, and read through the manual. Next, print out the decision aid for this method and put it in a prominent place by your computer. Apply this process to implementing a past major decision you made, and journal about what you might have done better if you applied this process. Apply this process to implementing an upcoming or potential future decision and consider how you can implement that decision better. Finally, read Chapter 5 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

Learning Objective: Master a technique for future-proofing your strategic decision making and strategic planning

Learning Steps: Watch the video "Future-Proof Your Strategic Decisions and Strategic Plans." Then, get the manual for this topic from the course packet, and read through the manual. Next, print out the decision aid for this method and put it in a prominent place by your computer. Apply this process to a strategy you pursued in the past, and journal about what you might have done better if you applied this process. Apply this process to your future strategy and consider how you can make that strategy better. Finally, read Chapter 6 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

Learning Objective: Master the mental habits necessary for addressing cognitive biases and recognizing when and how you should deploy all the techniques you've learned earlier

Learning Steps: Watch the video "12 Mental Skills to Defeat Cognitive Biases and Make the Best Decisions." Next, print out the decision aid for these mental skills and put it in a prominent place by your computer. Then, for each mental skills, journal about how you might have done better if you applied it in the past. Next, journal how you can apply each of these mental skills in the future to do better. Then, go through Chapter 7 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. That's the assessment you took in the first section of this course. Re-evaluate the cognitive biases in your workplace with the deeper information you have gained in this course. For each one that you find to be over 30%, determine which one or several of the 12 mental skills from you can apply to address the problem.

Learning Objective: Master a technique for how to deal with professional colleagues – supervisors, peers, subordinates – who express irrational beliefs and are in denial

Learning Steps: Watch the video "How to Deal With Irrational Colleagues in Denial." Next, print out the decision aid for the EGRIP technique and put it in a prominent place by your computer. Then, journal about a past situation with an irrational colleague in denial and how you might have done better if you applied this technique. Next, journal about a potential similar situation in the future and how you can do better by applying this technique. Then, go through the Conclusion of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. Journal about your overall impressions and take-aways from this book.

Learning Objective: Gain resources for lifelong learning to have content mastery

Learning Steps: Watch the video on “Lifelong Learning for Content Mastery.”

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Draws on real-world best practices from Fortune 500 company leaders, offering practical insights applicable to various professional scenarios

Requires at least a year of real-world professional experience to fully appreciate the strategies and case studies presented

Features lessons with videos and assignments from the course materials textbook packet, providing a multi-modal learning experience

Taught by an instructor with experience training leaders at Fortune 500 companies, offering insights from real-world applications

Based on the instructor's best-selling book, manuals, and decision aids, providing learners with a comprehensive set of resources

Examines cognitive biases and provides science-based techniques to overcome them, enhancing critical thinking and decision-making abilities

Reviews summary

Practical critical thinking & decision making methods

According to students, this course offers highly practical tools and frameworks for improving decision-making skills in a business context. Many found the content on identifying and overcoming cognitive biases particularly valuable and directly applicable to their work. Learners appreciated the instructor's blend of academic research and Fortune 500 experience, which provides a strong foundation and relatable examples. The course structure, relying on readings, videos, and required exercises, was seen as effective for solidifying understanding, though some note it requires diligent effort. Overall, feedback is largely positive, highlighting the course's ability to provide actionable strategies for better critical thinking.

Relies on external book/manuals.

"Note that the course material relies heavily on a required book/packet."

"The textbook and manuals are essential for completing the assignments."

"The decision aids provided in the packet are very useful resources to keep handy."

Benefits most from active engagement.

"This course is not passive; you need to actively engage with the exercises and journaling to get the most out of it."

"Applying the methods consistently requires discipline."

"Putting the concepts into practice is key."

Best suited for experienced professionals.

"The course is definitely geared towards working professionals, especially those in leadership or decision-making roles."

"Real-world business experience helps significantly in appreciating the case studies and methods."

"Might be too advanced or less relevant for students without professional background."

Offers clear, step-by-step frameworks.

"The course provides structured methods for different types of decisions (quick, major, complex) that are easy to follow."

"Liked the '5 Questions' framework for fast decisions."

"The manual and decision aids are helpful guides."

Deep understanding of cognitive biases.

"Helped me understand the cognitive biases that affect my decisions and how to mitigate them."

"The section on biases was eye-opening and incredibly relevant."

"Learning about specific dangerous judgment errors was highly valuable."

Instructor has valuable real-world experience.

"Dr. Gleb's background in behavioral science and work with Fortune 500 companies is very impressive and adds significant credibility."

"The instructor's insights come from extensive experience."

"His ability to connect academic concepts to business practice is excellent."

Provides actionable techniques for work.

"The techniques taught are highly practical and immediately applicable to real-world business decisions."

"I learned frameworks that I can implement tomorrow in my job."

"Provides actionable strategies rather than just theory."

"This course gives practical tools that I can use in my daily work."

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Be better prepared before your course. Deepen your understanding during and after it. Supplement your coursework and achieve mastery of the topics covered in Critical Thinking and Decision Making: Fortune 500 Leaders with these activities:

Review 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'

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Reinforce understanding of cognitive biases by reading a seminal work on the topic.

View Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment on Amazon

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Obtain a copy of 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'.
Read the book, taking notes on key concepts.
Reflect on how these biases impact your decisions.

Review Basic Statistics Concepts

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Strengthen your understanding of statistical concepts to better interpret data and make informed decisions.

Browse courses on Statistical Analysis

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Identify key statistical concepts.
Review relevant materials and examples.
Practice applying these concepts to data sets.

Analyze a Past Decision

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Apply course concepts by analyzing a past decision you made, identifying biases and potential improvements.

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Select a significant past decision.
Document the decision-making process.
Identify cognitive biases that influenced the decision.
Determine how you could improve the process.

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Create a Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet

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Solidify your understanding of cognitive biases by creating a reference guide for quick identification and mitigation.

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Research common cognitive biases.
Summarize each bias in a concise format.
Include examples of how each bias manifests.
Suggest strategies for mitigating each bias.

Discuss Decision-Making Scenarios

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Enhance understanding through collaborative discussion of real-world decision-making scenarios.

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Form a study group with classmates.
Find decision-making scenarios.
Analyze scenarios for cognitive biases.
Discuss alternative decision-making approaches.

Develop a Decision-Making Framework

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Synthesize course knowledge by creating a personalized framework for making better decisions in your professional life.

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Review course materials and notes.
Identify key decision-making principles.
Develop a step-by-step framework.
Test the framework on past decisions.
Refine the framework based on results.

Review 'Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work'

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Expand your knowledge of decision-making strategies by reading a practical guide on the topic.

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Obtain a copy of 'Decisive'.
Read the book, focusing on key strategies.
Apply the strategies to real-world scenarios.

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Learners who complete Critical Thinking and Decision Making: Fortune 500 Leaders will develop knowledge and skills that may be useful to these careers:

Chief Executive Officer

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Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is someone who starts and manages their own business, taking on the risks and rewards of building a venture. This career requires quick thinking, adaptability, and strong decision making skills. This course, which teaches critical thinking and decision making best practices used by Fortune 500 leaders, benefits any entrepreneur by guiding their decision making process. Learning techniques to tackle issues regarding cognitive biases is especially important in this environment. The course, with its focus on making quick, major, and complex decisions, is particularly useful for any entrepreneur who wants to enhance their business acumen and strategize for success.

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Management Consultant

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Chief Operating Officer

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Business Analyst

A business analyst identifies business needs and determines solutions to business problems. To be successful, a business analyst needs a strong understanding of critical thinking and decision making. Taking this course will help any business analyst improve their ability to effectively analyze situations, identify potential solutions, and make informed recommendations. You will learn how Fortune 500 leaders approach decision making. A business analyst will benefit from the course material on addressing cognitive biases, since their work is very exposed to them. Additionally, learning about techniques for making quick, major, and complex decisions enhances the toolkit of a business analyst.

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Underwriter

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Human Resources Manager

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Project Manager

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Operations Manager

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Investment Banker

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Policy Analyst

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Compliance Officer

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Market Research Analyst

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Financial Analyst

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Data Scientist

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