It’s one thing to identify errors or weaknesses in your business, but it’s another to actually fix and improve them. The crucial step in fixing an error is ...

A problem doesn't last a lifetime. But how you deal with it can make it linger for years without resolution. In my studies about the topic, I've identified that, in addition to everything that ...

Strategic problem solving is a critical business skill, for both management and front-line workers. For management, a large portion of strategic problem solving involves predicting problems that ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

How would you describe your company’s problem-solving culture? I have asked any number of managers that question; as often as not, it’s received with a blank stare. Most managers haven’t thought about ...

Bill Gates, billionaire and the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), shared his approach to solving problems, including those related to his philanthropic projects. Gates revealed his ...

The concept of a business strategy, analytics, search for solutions, the search output. Labyrinth of colorful wooden blocks. People in the maze, finding a way out. The man in the maze. This past month ...

If there are nine people in a room and every person shakes hands exactly once with each of the other people, how many handshakes will there be? How can you prove your answer is correct using a model ...

IN A WORLD deeply in need of problem-solving, a team of sixth-graders at the Academy for Discovery at Lakewood is getting a good start on the answers. This lottery-based, specialty school is open to ...

“Every now and then the elaborate elite consensus is wrong,” writes Tim Harford in “How populism became popular” (Spectrum, Life & Arts, November 15). Goodness! I almost spilt my coffee reading this, ...