ABSTRACT
Solving problems and making decisions pervade the academic leader’s day-to-day life. This chapter outlines strategies for enhancing and refining practical thinking skills that build the reader’s capacity to think creatively, prudently and, when necessary, rapidly.
Unpacking the interrelated impact of technical knowledge, experience, and attitude, this chapter examines the assets that underpin effective leadership thinking as well as offering ways to enhance them. An explanation of traditional and progressive problem-solving and decision-making methods and approaches supplies the reader with a range of tools for solving problems alone and in a group context while limiting unintended consequences. Incorporating many contextual examples, the chapter is an aide to working successfully though complex challenges.
