For the past few weeks, I’ve been reading about how to teach writing, reading, and critical inquiry. From these foundational skills, you get communication, critical thinking and problem-solving. These aren’t books designed for law professors, they’re old books for middle school teachers. It’s enlightening.
As a society, as leaders, and as bosses, I think we need to go back and revisit these concepts because something has gotten lost.
When we give feedback, we’re not going deep enough and helping people do better next time. And when we receive feedback, we’re not finding the lesson in what we hear.
We keep hoping the next shiny new technology will fill these gaps, without admitting that these gaps exist. Now we’ve got band-aids slapped all over a bunch of big, ambiguous problems. For the embarrassing and unambiguous problems, there’s a clear line going right back to the lack of writing, reading, and critical inquiry. These headline-grabbing mistakes wouldn’t occur if these foundational skills were present and used.
I think we need to re-embrace the importance of writing and critical thinking. We shouldn’t skip it and we shouldn’t assign it.
For people who don’t read, write, or think critically, it’s easy to think that GenAI will replace everything that certain employees can do. And for employees who don’t read, write, or think critically, the assumption that GenAI can do their work isn’t wrong.
So working from both directions, how do we re-infuse our minds and our world with these skills? Can we at least agree that writing, reading, critical inquiry, critical thinking, and problem-solving are important and necessary skills for us all to have?
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Professor of Marketing Management and Strategic & Digital Marketing@ CIIM Business School - University of Limassol, Author, Co-author with Philip Kotler & Keynote Speaker
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