Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A problem statement is a powerful tool that helps businesses ask the right questions. Used properly, it can lead to ...

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” ...

On my NPR-San Francisco show, listeners would call in with a problem and, in a few minutes, I had to come up with an approach that we both felt good about. Over the years, I refined the approach and ...

Workplaces need people who are willing to speak up. The key is to do it in a way that positions you as a problem-solver, not just a critic. A senior analyst at a financial firm once shared that she ...

Over the last decade, Cal Newport has become something of a modern workplace ombudsman. A professor of computer science at Georgetown, his books have addressed the ways in which technology can be a ...