When you hear the term 'problem solver,' you might imagine someone who can analyze the causes of a problem or come up with good solutions. However, in practice, simply coming up with a good solution ...

From choosing what to eat for breakfast to picking out what to wear to charting out a new project to saying no to a proposal, our days are full of decisions. Some are small, while others could affect ...

Benito Piuzzi is the COO of Lakeview Loan Servicing and former McKinsey consultant where he specialized in large-scale transformations. Problem-solving is a core competency needed in any business to ...

As obvious as it sounds, the first step in problem solving is recognizing the existence of a problem. This becomes important once you consider that people have to adopt and implement a solution - ...

The following is an excerpt from People Solve Problems: the Power of Every Person, Every Day, Every Problem (2021: Old Dutch Group), the latest book by IndustryWeek lean leadership contributor Jamie ...

Gisèle Huff is one of the nation’s most spirited advocates for the transformation of elementary and secondary education (K–12) through school choice and increased use of computer technology. She is ...

Researchers identify brain network alterations in developmental dyscalculia that impair strategy switching during math problem solving.

As I have mentioned in previous posts, cognitive behavioral therapy is more than challenging negative, automatic thoughts. There is a whole behavioral piece of this therapy that focuses on what people ...

We all have problems—it’s an inevitable part of being alive. But sometimes, when we’re trying to focus our energies on solving these problems, we may actually be doing something far less productive: ...