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Creating a start-up, or managing any business, is all about problem solving. Some people are good at it and some are not—independent of their IQs or academic credentials (there may even be an inverse ...

Four out of my five workers don’t meet my daily deadline for submitting production reports, which are compiled manually. The fourth can do the job without any complaint. I wish my small company can ...

If there are nine people in a room and every person shakes hands exactly once with each of the other people, how many handshakes will there be? How can you prove your answer is correct using a model ...

In an ideal world, problems would melt away. But this side of the rainbow, we’re left to solve them on our own. Fortunately, problem-solving skills are not difficult to attain once we know how to ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- One of the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command's Master Resiliency Trainers, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Barrett, teaches 'Problem Solving' during the monthly resiliency ...