Cognitive Biases and Critical Thinking for Executives

Covering the usual fallacies, biases and problems in executive thinking and behavior.

Created by: Vasco Patrício
Executive Coach, Past MIT Portugal IEI-Backed Founder

What Will I Learn?

• You'll learn how to identify and address the most common cognitive biases in executive situations
• You'll learn how to avoid - or at least mitigate - yourself falling into these traps
• You'll learn about basic mental patterns and biases that are found in multiple situations, and how they are manipulated
• You'll get to know examples of how these biases can be used by different people, for different purposes, and how it works as a process

Requirements

• You don't need any prior knowledge (a knowledge of persuasion or psychology helps, naturally, but is NOT required)

Target audience

• You're any executive that aims to correct their own cognitive biases and thinking errors
• You're any executive that is looking to de-bias and improve their decision-making process