Overview

Cognitive Toolkit Overview

The Cognitive Toolkit is a curated collection of mental models and problem-solving techniques designed to enhance your critical thinking and decision-making abilities. This resource is intended to equip design managers with a diverse set of tools to navigate complex challenges and foster innovative solutions. By exploring the concepts here managers can develop a deeper understanding of underlying structures and identify unconventional approaches.

1. Prioritisation

   1. 6 Box Framework

   2. Eisenhower Matrix

   3. Impact Effort Matrix

   4. The Pareto Principle

2. Problem Solving

   1. First Principles Thinking

   2. Systems Thinking

   3. Inversion Thinking

   4. Abstraction Laddering

   5. Occam's Razor

   6. Divergent & Convergent Thinking

3. Decision Making

   1. The Map Is Not the Territory

   2. The Cynefin Framework

   3. Second-order Thinking

   4. System 1 & System 2 Thinking

   5. The Hard Choice Model

   6. OODA Loop

4. Managing People

   1. Skill-Will Matrix

   2. The 4 Worker Types

   3. The 9 Employee Types

   4. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

   5. The Peter Principle

   6. Dunning-Kruger Effect

   7. Circle of Competence

   8. Hanlon's Razor

   9. Johari Window

   10. The Minto Pyramid

Untools.co

Untools is a brilliant resource by Adam Amran whose goal is to build a collection of tools and frameworks, covering areas like problem solving, systems thinking and decision making to help purposefully improve thinking. A pretty solid goal and resource.

Tools for better thinkingamrancz

Further Reading