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What Great Problem Solvers Do Differently

By Joseph Folkman — 2018

Most people assume that what it takes to be a great problem solver is simply raw intelligence. However, while intelligence helps, it’s not the only important element.

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Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities

Tough problems usually don’t get solved peacefully. They either don’t get solved at all—they get stuck—or they get solved by force. These frustrating and frightening outcomes occur all the time. Families replay the same argument over and over, or a parent lays down the law.

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Adam Kahane, Peter Senge (foreword)
2012
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Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen

So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems.

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Dan Heath
2020
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Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers

Bad problem solving costs individuals and society incalculable amounts of time, money, and sanity. In this book Nat Greene—who’s been solving hard problems professionally for over twenty years—shares nine behaviors anyone can adopt to find solutions to even the most seemingly intractable problems.

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Nat Greene
2024
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Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills

Thinking is the foundation of everything you do, but we rely largely on automatic thinking to process information, often resulting in misunderstandings and errors.

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Michael Kallet
2014
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Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill that Changes Everything

Complex problem solving is at the very top of the list of essential skills for career progression in the modern world. But how problem solving is taught in our schools, universities, businesses and organizations comes up short.

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Charles Conn, Robert McLean
2019
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What’s Your Problem? To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve

Are you solving the right problems? Have you or your colleagues ever worked hard on something, only to find out you were focusing on the wrong problem entirely? Most people have. In a survey, 85 percent of companies said they often struggle to solve the right problems.

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Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
2020
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Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

We’ve all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless, all-consuming, and fun. But as Dr.

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Stuart Brown, Christopher Vaughan
2010
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There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem

Wayne Dyer offers testimony on the power of love, harmony, and service. When confronted with a problem, such as ill health, financial worries, or relationship difficulties, we often depend on intellect to solve it.

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Wayne W. Dyer
2003
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Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space

This updated edition of the classic mind training exercises that became the Bible of consciousness exploration for a generation extends the usefulness of the "games" into corporate, educational, therapeutic, and community settings.

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Robert Masters, Jean Houston
1998
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