Have you ever run into a complicated problem you couldn’t figure out? Then, after you thought about it a while, the answer appeared like magic. My colleague, John Puryear, has an old country saying ...

As early as the industrial revolution, one particular math problem has faced businesses worldwide, of all sizes, in all industries. If I'm a manager in a business, at the end of the day, there are ...

Five steps to ensure that you don’t jump to solutions by Julia Binder and Michael D. Watkins When business leaders confront complex problems, there’s a powerful impulse to dive right into “solving” ...

Einstein is quoted as having said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.” The point he makes is important: ...