# 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](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/prioritisation/6-box-framework)
   2. [Eisenhower Matrix](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/prioritisation/eisenhower-matrix)
   3. [Impact Effort Matrix](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/prioritisation/impact-effort-matrix)
   4. [The Pareto Principle](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/prioritisation/the-pareto-principle)
2. **Problem Solving**
   1. [First Principles Thinking](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/problem-solving/first-principles-thinking)
   2. [Systems Thinking](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/problem-solving/systems-thinking)
   3. [Inversion Thinking](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/problem-solving/inversion-thinking)
   4. [Abstraction Laddering](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/problem-solving/abstraction-laddering)
   5. [Occam's Razor](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/problem-solving/occams-razor)
   6. [Divergent & Convergent Thinking](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/problem-solving/divergent-and-convergent-thinking)
3. **Decision Making**
   1. [The Map Is Not the Territory](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/decision-making/the-map-is-not-the-territory)
   2. [The Cynefin Framework](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/decision-making/the-cynefin-framework)
   3. [Second-order Thinking](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/decision-making/second-order-thinking)
   4. [System 1 & System 2 Thinking](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/decision-making/system-1-and-system-2-thinking)
   5. [The Hard Choice Model](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/decision-making/the-hard-choice-model)
   6. [OODA Loop](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/decision-making/ooda-loop)
4. **Managing People**
   1. [Skill-Will Matrix](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/managing-people/skill-will-matrix)
   2. [The 4 Worker Types](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/managing-people/the-4-worker-types)
   3. [The 9 Employee Types](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/managing-people/the-9-employee-types)
   4. [Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/managing-people/maslows-hierarchy-of-needs)
   5. [The Peter Principle](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/managing-people/the-peter-principle)
   6. [Dunning-Kruger Effect](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/managing-people/dunning-kruger-effect)
   7. [Circle of Competence](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/managing-people/circle-of-competence)
   8. [Hanlon's Razor](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/managing-people/hanlons-razor)
   9. [Johari Window](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/managing-people/johari-window)
   10. [The Minto Pyramid](https://designmanagerhub.gitbook.io/dmh/cognitive-toolkit/managing-people/the-minto-pyramid)

#### [Untools.co](https://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.&#x20;

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#### Further Reading

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