Showing posts with label critical thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label critical thinking. Show all posts

Monday, August 11, 2025

Learning from impeachment talks, debates and explanation of votes

Be better than before, than yesterday...


The impeachment of a sitting VP is quite a distraction.  There are so many pressing problems and goals that the country faces.   And many delight in the confusion and the quarrel that follows.  The discussions are illogical and crazy

    1.  You can disobey the Supreme Court;
    2.  The Supreme Court may reverse itself
    3.  The Supreme Court erred because many of the justices were PRRD apoointees
    4.  The Supreme Court makes it difficult to impeach any one 

However we should see rationally the SC ruling
    1.  The process for impeachment especially the HOR rules, the due process was violated especially
          the referral to the Commitee on Justice
    2.  The endorsement to the Senate was not taken up, voted in plenary
    3.  With regards to the three previous impeachment complaint:
          The Sec general was alleged to have violated the due process, because he was to refer the cases
           to the Speaker, and acted within 10 calendar days, and referred to the Commitee on justice
           The reading of the complaint the furnishing of the 4th complaint to  SD and the presentation of
           evidences was not done

Thus the complaint was:

    1.  Void ab initio
    2.  Unconstitutional
    3.  Violated the due process

We learn a lot from this (do not focus on the content) focus on the crtitical thinking, the factual analysis, devoid of political bias.   This post learn from this impeachment, as much as this post enjoyed watching the Corona impeachment, and learned much from JPE especially about being irrelievant.    relevant to the goal of the presentation  and or agenda.

It is an opportunity for self improvement, and the ways of the lawyers, judges.  


Sunday, August 6, 2017

How to train better and more effectively?

It is about getting better...

Rizal Philippines
August 6, 2017

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Yesterday, grabbed a newspaper from  fastfood while having breakfast.  We were on our way to Pangasinan for a business meeting.

What caught my attention was the article of Francis J Kong, Business Matters on page b3.

He says that the best trainers are both able to inform and transform.  It is not enough for a trainor or a speaker to have facts and figures - information, if cant transform his audience.  You may be funny or entertaining, but if you cant inspire your audience, then you have failed as as trainer or consultant. You may be funny or be like a stand up comedian, but if you cant create change in the minds of your  listener, then it is time wasted for your audience and sponsors.

You must also develop CRITICAL THINKING (we have emphasized this in MBA or when we teach leadership or entrepreneurship. For personal  development we need in the area of learning to think to develop critical thinking)

What is critical thinking according to Kong?   It is the process of accepting new ideas (being open to innovation and creativity and other options)  withholding judgement, and possibly to create your own new ideas.

The trainor and or the boss must have the ability to connect the hearts and the head, and make the trainee use the ideas he has learned to be applied in his job.   Thus, our method of making our people reflect should be suffient:

                            1. What did I learn from the book/training?

                            2, What is the relationship to what I all ready know?

                            3.  How can I apply these learnings to my job?


Thursday, November 7, 2013

Does smarthphone/laptop make you smart/er?

It is about getting better...



From the Guardian - Do smartphones make you stupid?

Smartphone is a misnomer in terms of making you smart. It does not.  Since you do not have chance to analyze to digest the information presented, you lose your ability to remember or critically analyze the information.  Long term memory, critical thinking and creativity are lost. (I hope this is not forever).   This may be the difficulty in the grad school as I teach creativity and entrepreneurship.  I do not get very inputs from the NU 12 assignments.  They are sparse and come very rarely every Monday.  Very few complete the 12 assignments.

There is also some difficulty for case analysis where more thinking is required.  Time to keep the smartphones this 3 weeks of November

The cure?  Forget your smartphone once in while.  Compute mentally, try to memorize some of the facts.  I know that. As I blog and copy the post, I could not even copy correctly the facts.  I have to copy and paste.  The computer resources make you lazy to think and remember.

I make it a point to make an article rather than merely copy paste on posts like this.  I am forced to think and analyzed.  Some articles are very wrong!