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Problem Solving

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Selling Solutions vs Solving Problems

When asked to name a problem, people often name a solution (i.e. the lack of a solution). This leads to designing typical, business as usual type of interventions without addressing the actual problem.

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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.

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg

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Albert Einstein’s Problem-Solving Formula, and Why It Still Works Like a Charm

When asked how he would spend his time if he was given an hour to solve a thorny problem, Einstein said he’d spend 55 minutes defining the problem and alternatives and 5 minutes solving it.

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FindCenter Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.

Chalene Johnson

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Navi Radjou: Creative Problem-Solving in the Face of Extreme Limits

Navi Radjou has spent years studying "jugaad," also known as frugal innovation. Pioneered by entrepreneurs in emerging markets who figured out how to get spectacular value from limited resources, the practice has now caught on globally.

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Learn from Failure: The Key to Successful Decision Making

Failure is an important piece to understanding how to solve problems and make decisions. This book will you guide to understanding patterns that can hinder you, but can also be used for growth. Learn From Failure is written by a seasoned executive, entrepreneur consultant and educator.

Robert V. Sicina

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Why Giving Up Is Sometimes the Best Way to Solve a Problem

"The real problem, we finally realized, wasn’t the one we were trying to solve. It was that we were so focused on finding a solution that we never stopped to question whether we should even be doing the thing causing us problems in the first place."

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FindCenter If we have learned anything, it is the horror that can happen when people don’t think for themselves, but instead follow authority blindly.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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7 Step Problem Solving

Are you facing a challenging situation at work? Ed Muzio, author of "Make Work Great" explains a 7 step solution to effective problem solving.

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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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