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” ...

This list doesn’t even include Solar City (Energy), which he helped build and acquired for $2.6 Billion recently. At first glance, it’s easy to link his rapid success, ability to solve unsolvable ...

As the saying goes, if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem will look like a nail. The same logic applies when you're approaching more abstract problems. A "mental model" is a way of ...

Ari Chazanas is the founder and CEO of Lotus West Properties, a property management and investment firm based in West Los Angeles. As the CEO of a property management company in Los Angeles, I've ...

The workplace is littered with problems that need to be solved on a daily basis, bet it a customer complaint, a quality issue, budget cuts, or communication issues and team dynamics. With all of these ...

All of our problems are the same. Problems are forever and we can’t avoid them. You’ll wake up tomorrow and have problems with breakfast. You’ll jump on the train and read a problem in your email ...