Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in the 21st

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MODULE 3 – Trends Subject Teacher:

Local Networks
LESSON:
‘No man is an Island’

‘Humans have the need to belong, to be affirmed, and appreciated’

‘Life is about reciprocity where we expect that our good acts will cultivate for us good things as well’

Thus, it is necessary for humans to create relationships and not just connections. This relationship that links humans to
certain sets of people, events, or objects is called network. One’s network influences his or her perception about life, his
role in the community and society as well as about the essence of his very existence. Networks could be local, global,
planetary, neural, and social.

For this module, local networks and its interconnected processes (strategic analysis and intuitive analysis) that help in
decision makings and dealings with local networks will be discussed.

Who are our local networks?

1. Family

1987 Philippine Constitution

 Family is a basic autonomous social institution (Art II, Sec 12); the foundation of the nation (ART XV, SEC 1);
basic institution which public policy cherishes and protects (ART 149)
 Family relations includes: husband and wife, parents and children, ascendants and descendants, brothers or sisters
whether full or half (ART 150)

Ordinary Language
 Family includes: pets, best friends, workplace, colleagues, spiritual brothers, or those whom one meets and
establish deep ties on their perspective

2. Country/ State

1987 Philippine Constitution

 A state is “a community of persons more or less numerous, permanently occupying a definite portion of territory,
independent of external control, and possessing an organized government to which the great body of inhabitants
render habitual obedience”

Country/State (Bansa)

Probinsya

Bayan (Munisipalidad or
Lungsod)

Bara
ngay

** Barangay is from “Balangay”, an ancient boat national boat of the Philippines, used by first settlers, central in trading.

What are intuitive thinking and strategic analysis?

ELEMENT STRATEGIC ANALYSIS INTUITIVE THINKING

1. LOGIC Logical mind needed Logical mind not needed
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2. REASON Starts from an idea or concept and moves on to Focuses on the idea or concept and its attributes
what can be associated with it
3. CENTER Brain-centered Heart-centered
4. BASIS Hard facts, data, instructions, Hunch, instinct, gut feeling
5. TIME Needs time to finish in one or more sittings or Spontaneous, quick, finished at one time
sessions
6. TOOLS SWOT analysis, PEST Analysis, VCA Analysis Experiences
7. PLANNING Well planned Unplanned

Intuitive thinking -sensing or knowing without using rational processes such as reading facts and instructions; making
choices and decisions according to ones’ hunch and gut feeling without knowing the reason why
*Intuition-the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need of conscious reasoning (Oxford
dictionary)

Examples:

1. Ayurvedic Medicine
Ayurvedic medicine is India’s traditional medicine system. Ayurvedic doctors agree that both intuition and
intellect are necessary to give a person a correct diagnosis and treatment of their specific disease.Pulse diagnosis which is
done by the physician placing three fingers on the patient’s pulse allows him to know the types of energetic imbalances he
has and to some extent how to correct them. The mind and heart of the doctor have to be in tune while this takes place. It
is impressive to know that pulse diagnosis has been used for over 5,000 years and it continues to be used today – with
some doctors in the West having also implemented it in their practice.

2. U.S. Airways Collision

In 2009, pilot Sullenberger became a national hero after saving hundreds of lives in an airplane collision. The
U.S. Airways airplane crashed with a flock of birds causing the engines to fail. Since the engines couldn’t be restarted
once in the air, Sullenberger made use of his unconscious mind and decided to land the airplane in the Hudson River –
which wouldn’t have been deemed a normal course of action for such an incident. This happened in a matter of seconds
and what was thought to be a very hard thing to do (land on the Hudson River), was done with ease by the pilot.

3. Business Success
Aileen Mahoney director of Evotive Marketing usually never calls back when she has missed calls with no voice
messages. However, one day there was a missed call and she felt the urge to call back – although she had ignored those
probably hundreds of times. She called her husband and told him about it and her husband said she shouldn’t worry about
calling back. Nevertheless, the gut feeling didn’t allow her to forget about it. At last she decided to call and she reports
having contacted one of her best clients so far.

4. The Fake Statue

In 1983 the Getty Museum received a statue that was thought to be original. However, when experts in the field
came to check it, they all declared that the statue was fake. They didn’t specify any particular reason but only recognized
that a gut feeling told them there was something wrong with it.

Strategic Analysis- process of examining the organizations’ surrounding and resources and how they relate to each other
to formulate a strategy to meet objectives and improve performance using one’s rationality or reason
Analytical tools:

1. SWOT Analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats)

• Situational analysis identifying internal attributes and external factors that may contribute or obstruct the
attainment of objectives and priorities

Positive Negative
STRENGTH WEAKNESS Internal
(advantages, capabilities, resources) (disadvantages, vulnerabilities, limitations)
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS External
(chances, developments, benefits) (obstacles, risks, external effects: trouble and
competitors)

2. PEST Analysis (Political, Economic, Social, Technological)

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• Surveys the bigger environment where the organization operates

• Evaluate factors affecting existence of the organization
• Opportunities or threats in the SWOT analysis

POLITICAL factors ECONOMIC factors

(Government stability, Tax policy, Peace and order, (Economic growth, purchasing power, Inflation,
rules, regulation, laws) capital & interest, currency exchange, tariff,
employment-unemployment rates)
SOCIOCULTURAL factors TECHNOLOGICAL factors
(Income distribution, Demography, people’s (International Influences, tech transfer, technological
preferences and needs, attitude toward product/service innovations and threats)
, backgrounds and diversity among others)

3. VCA Analysis (Value Chain Analysis)

• Promotes the idea that an organization exists to produce value to its clients creating something worth to its
costumers understanding how the organization’s set of activities produce added value and satisfy clients
• Technique for evaluating the company’s sources of competitive advantage

Primary Activities
(production, marketing,
sale, delivery of products)

Support Activities
(promotion, advertising
costumer service, post-sales
activities- repair and
maintenance)

ASSESSMENT/ACTIVITY:

REFERENCES:

Urgel, E. (2017). Trends, networks, and critical thinking in the 21 st century culture. Diwa Learing System
Inc: Makati City, Philippines.

Rob (2015). Amazing examples of intuition. Retrieved from http://beyondiam.com/examples-of intuition/