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WENDELL GLENN P. CAGAPE, MAFSCOLUMN FOR:
August 26, 2007
 A culture of thinking or a thinking culture?
Recently, in my PhD class at the Graduate School for Education at the LaSalle University, we deliberated on issues affecting school systems in the countryand how we can address it. Along the discussion routes we did, I offered to myclassmates the concept of author Ben Heirs, who wrote the national bestseller, “TheProfessional Decision Thinker”. Heirs discussed the aspect of thinking strategicallyand to enhance any organization to achieve its goal and vision as well as its missionthrough the contextualization and adaptation of the culture of thinking.In our daily lives, may it be in work, relationship and studies; we do think andpractice the skill of thinking albeit simply. To make it more proactive, increase yourlevel of thinking and accept new approaches to improve the manner that you think.As I had been saying, the absence of a thinking culture restricts us to think deeplyand analyze the situation we are currently in because we feared that if we think toomuch, our brains will explode in thin air or worse, people will see us as anotherspecies out from the mental institution. Whatever you do, you need to think and youwill never get to where you are heading if you are handicapped with your thinkingskills. The art of thinking is not a gift as opposed to the suggestion of my classmatebecause a thinking culture can be acquired, nurtured and sustained. Strategicthinking enables an organization to leapfrog to its objectives. Creating a culture of thinking in our organizations and communities necessitates that our thinkingmechanism does not necessarily be coming from the top echelons of management.All stakeholders in the organization must be consulted and ask to participate in thethinking process. In a culture of thinking, the organization think, not only theindividual running it. The unfortunate situation of our society and in most corporations andorganizations, thinking are apparently done by the top honchos and thesubordinates are treated as mere implementers or worse, become the end user of such thinking processes. Because of this, our country is lagging behind in terms of economic development, political stability as well as in the educational sector. If youwonder why our universities and colleges are not at par with the rest of the world, aculture of thinking is blatantly absent. Most decisions come from the top andthinking is done sparingly. Worse, in a society like ours, we only think and plan
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