Asking “Why?” may be a favorite technique of your 3-year-old child in driving you crazy, but it could teach you a valuable Six Sigma quality lesson. The 5 Whys is a technique used in the Analyze phase ...

Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable of almost anything. Jo excels at intuitive problem-solving. Over her life, ...

The ability to solve complex problems effectively has become a defining factor for success. Yet, despite the abundance of tools and methodologies available, I've noticed organizations often struggle ...

When a crowd gets something right, like guessing how many beans are in a jar, forecasting an election, or solving a difficult ...

Planning is a key part of staying productive, but it has to be done right. To succeed, you need to understand why previous attempts at planning didn’t pan out. Conducting a personal after-action ...

It’s not about bad execution, but it boils down to thinking alignment. This happens when we use small tools for big problems, big tools for small problems, then we wonder why everyone is tired and ...

The world today is marked by paradox. Never before has humanity possessed such extraordinary scientific knowledge, ...

Complex problem solving (CPS) represents an essential dimension of contemporary education, capturing the multifaceted cognitive and metacognitive processes that underpin effective learning in ...

Most founders don’t step in to fix things because they lack trust in their teams. They do it because under pressure, their ...