1. [Cognitive skills are very important for intellectual work but they need to be accompanied by metacognitive skills to get success] Cognitive (worker) skills perform the intellectual work decided on by the metacognitive bosses. Examples of cognitive skills include encoding (registering information), inferring, comparing, and analyzing. Metacognition refers to "thinking about thinking, " such as deciding how to approach a task. Metacognitive (boss) skills involve executive management processes such as planning, monitoring and evaluating.
   Link to context