COMM 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Second Cup
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Critical thinking: an approach to reading, thinking, and learning that involves asking questions, examining our assumptions, and weighing the validity of arguments. Critical: it is not only negative, also it can ben positive and judgmental. In the 1980"s an enormous interest for business have growth especially for business books. The most popular subjects were: productivity of companies, global markets, financial investment, consumer awareness, changing career paths and unemployment. Later in early 2001, the interest about business started to decrease. Moreover, later in 2007-2010, because of the enron case and financial crisis people started to be aware of that. In recent years, we are shelled by too much information that we have to filter what is relevant to us. We are in an age of experts which means that people trust other people with expertise. Moreover, experts have different thinking about so many things that it is confusing.