Problem Solving

The Monkey and The Pedestal Analogy Reminds Us to Tackle the Hard Things 1st Because If We Can’t Solve Them, There Is No Point in Doing the Rest of The Work

Upstream Thinking Is a Metaphor for Problem Prevention. There Are Three Problems That Prevent Upstream Efforts and Seven Critical Questions Leaders Must Ask to Fix Upstream Systems.

The recent actions of Twitter and Facebook to delete user accounts are examples of businesses looking for an easy, short-term solution that fails to solve the right problem. They both failed to look at the second-order effects of their decisions, making the solving of the real issues much harder in the future while hurting at the same time their business and economic models in the process.