Problem-solving is a skill managers use every day in the workplace. Today's managers might face problems like allocating work fairly among staff or accomplishing business results with fewer resources.

Guiding a tech project from start to finish entails staying on top of seemingly endless details, decisions and data (and sometimes, detours). From making sure progress is achieved on time and on ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Nelson Repenning, MIT Sloan School of Management Distinguished Professor of System Dynamics and Organizational Studies. Courtesy MIT Sloan School of Management It’s often said that most business books ...