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Osho: Each Problem Is a Challenge and Makes You More Intelligent

By Osho
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— 2018

“You have many problems which you are not seeing – which in fact, you do not want to see. You go on postponing. You are so afraid of seeing those problems, because then you will have to solve them. But by postponing they are not solved; it is not so easy.”

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Creativity Is Your Best Problem-Solving Tool—Here’s How to Harness It

Your success is contingent on your ability to solve problems effectively, and one of the best tools you have for the job is your creativity. But why is creativity so valuable in solving problems, and how can you make the best use of it?

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Timothy Carter
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Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life

Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different question. Take Debbie Sterling, the social entrepreneur who created GoldieBlox.

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Hal Gregersen
2018
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Learn from Failure: The Key to Successful Decision Making

Failure is an important piece to understanding how to solve problems and make decisions. This book will you guide to understanding patterns that can hinder you, but can also be used for growth. Learn From Failure is written by a seasoned executive, entrepreneur consultant and educator.

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Robert V. Sicina
2017
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Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities

Tough problems usually don’t get solved peacefully. They either don’t get solved at all—they get stuck—or they get solved by force. These frustrating and frightening outcomes occur all the time. Families replay the same argument over and over, or a parent lays down the law.

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Adam Kahane, Peter Senge (foreword)
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Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen

So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems.

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Dan Heath
2020
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Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving

“It’s imagination, it’s inference, it’s guessing; and much of it is happening subconsciously,” said Marcel Danesi, a professor of anthropology.

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Benedict Carey
2010
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Why Giving Up Is Sometimes the Best Way to Solve a Problem

"The real problem, we finally realized, wasn’t the one we were trying to solve. It was that we were so focused on finding a solution that we never stopped to question whether we should even be doing the thing causing us problems in the first place."

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Tim Herrera
2019
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Are You Solving the Right Problem?

“If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it,” Albert Einstein said.

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Dwayne Spradlin
2012
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Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers

Bad problem solving costs individuals and society incalculable amounts of time, money, and sanity. In this book Nat Greene—who’s been solving hard problems professionally for over twenty years—shares nine behaviors anyone can adopt to find solutions to even the most seemingly intractable problems.

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Nat Greene
2025
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Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills

Thinking is the foundation of everything you do, but we rely largely on automatic thinking to process information, often resulting in misunderstandings and errors.

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Michael Kallet
2014
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