{"id":9927,"date":"2019-05-26T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=9927"},"modified":"2019-05-17T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T07:44:03","slug":"concrete-thinking-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/26\/concrete-thinking-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete thinking | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Definition: <\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concrete thinking is literal thinking that is focused on the physical world. It is the opposite of abstract thinking. People engaged in concrete thinking are focused on facts in the here and now, physical objects, and literal definitions. The term \u201cconcrete thinking\u201d is, ironically, a metaphor (and a metaphor is a type of abstract thinking); concrete is a hard, physical substance and concrete thinking is focused on literal\u2013and often physical\u2013facts. A person who thinks only in concrete terms might think that the term \u201cconcrete thinking\u201d means thinking literally about concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further Reading: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Book:<\/strong> <strong>Agile Competitors and Virtual Organization by Steven L. Goldman, Roger N. Nagel and Kenneth Preiss<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition: Concrete thinking is literal thinking that is focused on the physical world. It is the opposite of abstract thinking. People engaged in concrete thinking are focused on facts in the here and now, physical objects, and literal definitions. The term \u201cconcrete thinking\u201d is, ironically, a metaphor (and a metaphor is a type of abstract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[2505],"class_list":["post-9927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glossary","tag-concrete-thinking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Concrete-thinking-01.png?fit=750%2C410","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-2A7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9929,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions\/9929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}