25. Develop Your Opinions

Concept

Large numbers of people, in my experience, have few if any opinions. If one had not formed an opinion on a subject (profit vs. community contribution, debt vs. equity, immigration, minimum wages, health care system, product mix, current strategy, and on and on and on), one is likely to either waffle in discussion or rely simply on immediate emotional reactions (fast thinking, semi-conscious VABEs).

Much of what we do in business schools is an attempt to help students and executive education participants to form reasoned opinions (slow thinking). In this, we often create expectation abrasions in students so that they have an admittedly small and short space, the classroom, to consider whether their immediate thoughts ...

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