How Your Organization Can Master Problem-Solving In contrast to the missteps above, there are five steps your business can start doing now to solve problems more effectively.

The Problem-Solving Routine At Two Rivers, we use a fairly simple routine for problem-solving that has five basic steps.

Step 1: Identify and define your assumptions. "If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions." —Albert Einstein ...

Kara Goldin, founder and CEO of Hint, shares her four top tactics for solving business problems.

Our work suggests that collaborative problem solving is possible among people who strongly disagree with each other on important issues.