This psychology-based problem-solving quiz reveals whether you solve problems through logical analysis, gut instinct, ...

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 ...

After more than 24 years of coaching, I've noticed that teams and organizations still use traditional problem-solving techniques despite these being either obsolete or ineffective. For example, ...

Gene Kranz, the steel-nerved flight director of the troubled Apollo 13 mission, is widely associated with the gritty epigram, “failure is not an option.” In fact, Kranz–a breathtakingly effective ...

New research published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships provides evidence that a specific mental exercise ...

Your intelligence, common sense, and education all help you solve problems. However, if you're attempting to undertake complex problem-solving, such as reorganizing the business or diagnosing a ...

Are you stuck with workplace problems that you can't solve? Make your problem front and center. When you say that you're "a firefighter," you don't mean the firefighter who runs into buildings with ...

Creating a start-up, or managing any business, is all about problem solving. Some people are good at it and some are not—independent of their IQs or academic credentials (there may even be an inverse ...

While we can’t fix everything, there’s a fundamental truth that most large problems begin as small problems that, left unattended, grow or propagate. There are always plenty of problems to be solved.

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 ...