Anastasia Mudrova
Don’t fall in love with the solution. Fall in love with the problem.
Content: Quotation | Author: Anastasia Mudrova | Subject: Problems / Solutions
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
What I notice when I work with […] companies applying those [Six Sigma, TRIZ, 5 Whys, root cause analysis] was those tools tend to make you dig deeper into the first understanding of the problem we have. […] That they kind of get caught by the details. That, in a way, is a bad way to work on problems because it really assumes that there’s … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Problems / Solutions, Thought
Albert Einstein
Conventional wisdom is the source of many problems and is ill-suited to solving them.
Content: Quotation | Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Problems / Solutions, Thought
Julie Zhuo
Teams that fall in love with a problem have more successful outcomes than teams that fall in love with particular solutions. This is because knowing that a problem is worth solving continues to be motivating even when a team doesn’t come across the right solution on the first, second, or Nth try.
Content: Quotation | Author: Julie Zhuo | Source: Medium | Subjects: Challenge, Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Problems / Solutions, Teamwork
Martin Reeves and Jussi Lehtinen
The effectiveness of a company’s problem solving, as measured along the dimensions of cost, speed, and accuracy, is influenced by five elements: strategy (that is, the core of the company’s problem-solving approach, which drives decisions about the other elements), framing, data selection, choice and implementation of a solution method, and selection of problem solvers. Classical enterprises typically lack a strategy for problem solving. They try … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Authors: Jussi Lehtinen, Martin Reeves | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Problems / Solutions
Peter Drucker
You have to focus on success, especially unexpected success, and run with it. Most problems cannot be solved—most problems can only be survived. And one survives problems by making them irrelevant because of success. This is a matter, above all, of placing people. What I have learned to do is to take a sheet and list our opportunities and the risks. And then I make … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, Opportunity, Problems / Solutions, Success / Failure
A.G. Lafley
You can never outwork a problem. You have to outthink it.
Content: Quotation | Author: A.G. Lafley | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Problems / Solutions, Work
John Donahoe
Everything seems urgent and very little actually is. When I come back from a long trip and haven’t been current on my voicemail or email, I’m always struck by the fact that what seem like crises on Day One resolve themselves without any interaction from me.
Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Delegation, Problems / Solutions, Time Management
Shunryu Suzuki
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few. Always begin, again and again.
Content: Quotation | Source: LifeHacker | Subjects: Achievement, Innovation, Potential, Problems / Solutions
Claude Legrand and Dr. David S. Weiss
As we moved from the industrial economy to the knowledge economy over the past 25 years, the nature of critical issues changed from complicated to complex. Complicated issues can be solved with logic and by drawing on past experience. It’s simply a matter of simplifying, organizing and applying solutions that have worked in a similar situation. Complex issues, on the other hand, are more ambiguous, … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Authors: Claude Legrand, David S. Weiss | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Innovation, Problems / Solutions
Ingvar Kamprad
Expensive solutions to any kind of problem are usually the work of mediocrity.
Content: Quotation | Author: Ingvar Kamprad | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Problems / Solutions
Michael Porter
The highest compliment, I’ve come to understand, is, ‘Oh, that’s obvious.’ “I used to get really mad about that, but now I understand that’s the goal — to take a complex problem and make it seem really clear and obvious.
Content: Quotation | Author: Michael E. Porter | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Communication, Problems / Solutions, Trends / Analysis
Stephen Shapiro
Einstein said that if he had an hour to save the world, he’d spend fifty-nine minutes defining the problem and one minute finding the solution. The reality is that people spend sixty minutes running around finding solutions to problems that don’t matter or that were never defined properly.
Content: Quotation | Author: Stephen Shapiro | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Innovation, Problems / Solutions
Robert Fritz
The fundamental nature of problem solving is to drive something (the problem) out of existence. The fundamental nature of creating is to bring something that is desired into existence.
Content: Quotation | Author: Robert Fritz | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Creativity, Problems / Solutions
Alfred Armand Montapert
We see problems, not as they are, but as we are. That’s why attitude plays such a crucial role in separating those who lead from those who follow. Alfred Armand Montapert said, “The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.”
Content: Quotation | Authors: Alfred Armand Montapert, John Maxwell | Subjects: Adversity, Opportunity, Problems / Solutions
Gil Troy
Problem solving invites reason, compromise, and, ultimately, mutual respect; identity building invites posturing, passion, and, ultimately, intolerance.
Content: Quotation | Author: Gil Troy | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Problems / Solutions
Jeffrey Liker
In Toyota’s view, you don’t have a problem without a standard. Someone might tell his or her boss, “We’re not meeting our delivery date” or “Our meetings are not happening on time.” And the boss would say, “What is the standard? What would be acceptable lateness?” or “Why is lateness a problem? What is the result of lateness?” As long as the standards are clear, … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Liker | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Best Practices, Problems / Solutions
Albert Einstein
It’s not that I am so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Content: Quotation | Author: Albert Einstein | Source: Bruce Lynn Blog | Subjects: Intelligence, Problems / Solutions
Dr. Ralph Gerard
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Content: Quotation | Author: Ralph Gerard | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Innovation, Problems / Solutions
Denis Couillard
When a company faces an adaptive challenge, the locus of responsibility for problem solving must shift to its people. Innovative and well-adapted solutions reside in the collective intelligence of employees at all levels, who need to use one another as resources, often across boundaries, and learn their way towards solutions.
Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Problems / Solutions