title: Cengage Advantage Books: Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic
author: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
description: "With its lucid explanations, penetrating analysis of real-world issues, and its selection of exemplary, timely readings, Understanding Arguments should be required reading in any course whose objectives include improving critical thinking and analytical skills."<br /><br />"This book is a well-crafted and philosophically-infused work. It gets students engaged with the material and genuinely challenges them to think critically. It works particularly well for courses on critical thinking that are aimed at developing students' skills in quantitative reasoning."
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  **“If you don’t know where you are going any road will get you there.”**  
  **― Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_ **
  
  
  # Forward Thinking Advantage
  
  ##  _Go from an Old School Manager to a Modern Business Master_
  
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  ### Tracy Darchini
  
  
  ©2017  
  Looking Glass Communications, LLC  
  All Rights Reserved
  
  ISBN:978-0-9988958-0-2
  
  Forward Thinking Advantage © Tracy Darchini. All Rights Reserved, except where
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  To Kathleen, Jane, and Edith
  
  
  # Contents
  
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    * [ Introduction ](text00005.html#new-introduction)
    * [ 1\. What is a Forward Thinking Advantage? ](text00006.html#chapter-1)
    * [ 2\. Your Forward Thinking Assessment ](text00007.html#chapter-2-your-forward-thinking-assessment)
    * [ 3\. Old School Manager vs. Modern Business Master ](text00008.html#old-school-manager-vs-modern-business-master)
    * [ 4\. Trend Spotting & Voracious Learning ](text00009.html#chapter-4)
    * [ 5\. Personal Br