About this Presentation
Can AI think for us? Should it replace or enhance the quality of our thinking? In this one-hour webinar, we explore how critical thinking is more important in the age of AI, and why the Thinking Processes are more relevant than ever. We will examine how to expose fragile assumptions hiding in seemingly robust logical arguments, why people struggle with planning in prerequisites, and how to break out of recurring “either/or” dilemmas where teams bounce between opposing behaviours without finding a real win-win solution. We will discuss, based on experience, why these situations occur and how to resolve them, then consider how AI should (and should not) be applied to help your thinking in each of these situations.
What Will You Learn
To help you get the most value from this session, we’ve highlighted a few key points. These takeaways capture the main ideas and practical insights from the presentation, making it easier for you to review, reflect, and apply what you’ve learned.
AI is most valuable when it sharpens human judgment, not when it replaces it. This session reframes AI as a tool to reduce legwork while managers stay responsible for sensing when something “doesn’t seem right.”
Better questions come from better thinking structure. The session highlights how hidden assumptions, false dilemmas, and missing prerequisites distort decisions long before AI enters the picture.
A powerful takeaway is to use AI as a scrutiny partner, not a tool that fills in the Thinking Processes for you. The real breakthrough comes from surfacing assumptions people do not immediately see.
The session also explores when to use different TOC logic patterns, including cause-and-effect, prerequisite logic, Clouds, CRTs, and Druids, to improve communication, decision making, and forward-looking problem solving.
Instructor(s)
Peter Cronin
Peter is the head instructor of the Black Belt in Thinking (Thinking Process training course). Even after a decade of teaching others how to use these critical thinking tools, he is still endlessly fascinated by the innovative ways people think and learn. Whether they are leaders, business owners, entrepreneurs, or individuals, Peter’s passion is seeing and helping people create real solutions to what they thought were ‘unbreakable’ problems.
Alejandro R. Fernandez
Alejandro Fernandez has been working with more than 100 companies since 1993 in Processes of Ongoing Improvement, based on implementing TOC solutions for: Operations, Finance and Measurements, Projects, Supply Chain, Marketing & Sales Management, under the Strategy and Tactics approach of Harmony & Exepron & Focuss software, based on applying the TOC Thinking Processes to build and communicate common sense and generate consensus throughout the management team.