‘Thinking about thinking’: Soldiers Have a Better Way to Solve Problems
Maj. Jamie Schwandt
Maj. Thomas Ryan
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
A new field of systems thinking has emerged with the potential to transform the U.S. Army and its professional military education system. This new field could create emergent and adaptive leaders by placing a high value on creative and critical thinkers. It offers a new way to view problems and build intuitive thinking. Essentially, it could be the next frontier for the Army to create a superior cognitive force or, more specifically, a metacognitive force.
This new approach is called Systems Thinking v2.0, and it has the potential to fundamentally change and improve how leaders can think through, identify and solve problems in the Army. It is a new approach to problem-solving and concept mapping that can help build a new metacognitive warfighter.
Systems Thinking v2.0 is predicated on new discoveries and ideas:
https://www.ausa.org/articles/%E2%80%98thinking-about-thinking%E2%80%99-soldiers-have-better-way-solve-problems
