" This book equips students with a practical set of skills, showing how they can use philosophy's methods to analyze and discuss the philosophical and ethical issues that now form an integral part of courses in business, engineering, teaching, and health, as well as those in the humanities and social sciences. Selected case studies bring both ethical and philosophical issues to life. "

In 2007 with the credit crisis well under way the RBS board, after meeting 18 times, unanimously voted to go ahead with the £47bn takeover of ABN Amro, which wrecked one of the World’s biggest banks. Other large, established companies have taken similar disastrous decisions: Lloyds Bank, Lehman Brothers, Daimler-Benz, Samsung, Wang, Quaker. So why do successful professionals and business people make such poor decisions?

This book not only explains why, but how we can avoid it in our own professional and business lives.

It shows us how we can make better strategic decisions by developing our conceptual, creative and critical thinking skills that are rarely, if ever, taught in formal education.

It gives professionals and business people the essential tools to become better thinkers and decision-makers. We learn how to use our skills to tackle the most difficult of all the decisions we have to make, particularly those involving complex moral problems, and how we can incorporate these skills within our normal professional lives.