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What’s Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve
WE hear a lot about reframing, but do we actually do it? True. We get busy, and we start looking for a solution without first analyzing the problem. We want a quick solution so we can move on. And we “solve” the wrong problem. Reframing helps us to avoid this. Reframing helps us to see solutions that we would otherwise not see, as we see the issue from different angles. Sometimes the process of reframing leads us to discover that what we thought was the problem is not really the problem at all.
What’s Your Problem? To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve
We hear a lot about reframing, but do we actually do it? True. We get busy, and we start looking for a solution without first analyzing the problem. We want a quick solution so we can move on. And we “solve” the wrong problem. Reframing helps us to avoid this. Reframing helps us to see solutions that we would otherwise not see, as we see the issue from different angles. Sometimes the process of reframing leads us to discover that what we thought was the problem is not really the problem at all.
To solve big global issues, we must reframe our problems
Reframing social and global problems could yield viable solutions to major issues such as climate change and gender inequality. Being able to identify patterns in how people tend to frame problems underpins this approach. Three such patterns include framing problems to avoid change, to blame individuals instead of the system, and to bypass "messy" realities. Imagine you own an office building and your tenants are complaining that the elevator is way too slow. What do you do?
What’s your problem?: What’s Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve.
We hear a lot about reframing, but do we actually do it? True. We get busy, and we start looking for a solution without first analyzing the problem. We want a quick solution so we can move on. And we “solve” the wrong problem. Reframing helps us to avoid this. Reframing helps us to see solutions that we would otherwise not see, as we see the issue from different angles. Sometimes the process of reframing leads us to discover that what we thought was the problem is not really the problem at all.
To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is a globally recognized expert on innovation and problem-solving. He has shared and refined his reframing method with clients like Cisco, Microsoft, Citigroup, Time Warner, Prudential, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, the Wall Street Journal, and the United Nations. Below, Thomas shares 5 key insights from his new book, What’s Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve.
How to solve the right problems
Master the art of reframing to make sure you’re focusing on the right things. Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg shows how How much do we waste – time, money, energy, even lives – by solving the wrong problems?Many people, especially leaders, are good at solving problems. What we tend to be less adept at, as individuals and as organizations, is making sure that the problems we solve are the right ones.
NSCA Announces Keynote Speakers for BLC 2020
NSCA, a not-for-profit association representing the commercial low-voltage electronic systems industry, announced the speakers for the 22nd annual Business & Leadership Conference (BLC), to be held Feb. 26-28, 2020, at the Four Seasons Resort and Club in Irving, Texas. NSCA’s BLC is a platform for executive-level education and networking.
The Case for Corporate Disobedience
If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. Before you can scale the business, you have to understand what your customers really want and value, and how to deliver it to them — and that process requires a lot of flexibility. In theory, you have decent odds of getting it right.
Are you solving the right problems? - BusinessDay : News you can trust
How good is your company at problem solving? Probably quite good, if your managers are like those at the companies I’ve studied. What they struggle with, it turns out, is not solving problems but figuring out what the problems are.
Are You Solving the Right Problems?
How good is your company at problem solving? Probably quite good, if your managers are like those at the companies I’ve studied. What they struggle with, it turns out, is not solving problems but figuring out what the problems are.
What It Really Means to Be a Chief Innovation Officer
Increasingly, companies are creating formal innovation roles outside the R&D department. In a Cap Gemini study from 2012 of 260 organizations, 43% of respondents said they had a Chief Innovation Officer or similar, up from 33% the year before. Below the C-suite level, local leaders across the organization are busily creating dedicated innovation roles, with titles such as Innovation Manager, Innovation Director, or VP of Innovation.
Get More Actionable Ideas from Your Employees
Why do so many people have their ideas rejected by their own companies? The problem, in our experience, is that most leaders fail to set clear goals for innovation. Seduced by the notion that creativity is all about giving people freedom, leaders fail to specify what kind of ideas the business is likely to invest in.
4 Ways to Fix the Q&A Session
As a professional public speaker on innovation, I’ve often wondered why people seem so attached to the idea of ending keynotes with a Q&A session. Most Q&A sessions are mediocre experiences at best: an instantly forgettable interlude before the coffee break. The very format, I’d argue, is a dysfunctional relic of the past, unthinkingly added to agendas everywhere, and I believe we need to rethink it. To be clear, it’s not that the intention of having a Q&A session is bad.
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