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Comment on Know when to discard experts by S

Tue, 01 May 2012 19:01:34 +0000

Arnaud,
Interestingly, I was writing a very similar post today, regarding past experiences and using “experts”..

I’m of the mind that the majority of information one wishes to be gleaned from past experience AND “experts” (presumably they have had some “result” that you seek to “reproduce”/”emulate”) is USELESS after a point.

It may be best to evaluate WHY your “problem” arose WITHIN You, and after this point you will be able to determine a set of actions that may lead to a novel situation-assess state, or a set of questions, adaptable enough to produce the “how” answers sought.

“Experts” bring to the table an assortment of ‘after-the-fact’ assumptions from mythical experiences–attributing some/all/parts of their behavior to experiences often outside of their range of direct action…and likewise, discarding the power of their actions, claiming them to be related external events.

I attribute this behavior in MY OWN thinking to the Ego’s self-aggrandizing propensity. You can guess at the Why of “those experts’” mal-attributions.

Personal conclusion: you can gain inspiration from yourself…Going to experts is a kind of self-congratulation,an act of vanity, mutual masturbation of egos. How much can you gain from supporting a biological function like this? Instead, I think you become more lopsided with input from experts; consumed with praising their pattern of solutions, all largely based on mostly extant expiriential – SUBJECTIVE assertions on the nature of their “result”.

The EGO confuses us when it says “since I am a human with similar traits like this expert and I am special, I too must be able to reproduce the results of that expert”. This fallacy creates confusion — loops — which many thinkers will simply chase like a raindrop in a storm.

Comment on Case study: cables negotiation — part 3/8 — Build a why tree (2/2) by Natalie Landman

Natalie Landman — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:09:45 +0000

Purchased the Problem Solving presentation and would like to use some of the slides for an upcoming learning collaborative. I hope that is OK.

Comment on Build logic trees: diagnosis trees and decision trees by Arnaud

Arnaud — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:01:47 +0000

This one is just Keynote/PowerPoint. For more complex trees, I use MindJet’s MindManager but there are other options (see http://powerful-problem-solving.com/get-help-building-trees).

Comment on Build logic trees: diagnosis trees and decision trees by misoot

misoot — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:47:04 +0000

Great site, much more in-depth than many others on the web. Question: what programme do you use for drawing your issue trees (e.g. the one on this particular page)? Thanks a lot for your answer in advance.

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Comment on Learn to build issue trees by watching by Matthew Juniper

Matthew Juniper — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:49:36 +0000

Hello,

I have moved the issue tree movie to this site:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10418369/MPJ_website/issue_hyp_trees/flash/issue_tree/issue_tree.html

You can find the other issue and hypothesis trees from the links on my website:
http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mpj1001/MJ_teaching_pg.html

Best wishes,

Matthew Juniper

Comment on Use logic by David Hignett

David Hignett — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:35:20 +0000

Hi Arnaud,

I have just found your problem solving blog and I think it is excellent. I work in operational improvement for financial service businesses and find it fascinating that we share a lot of the books that have inspired you: Minto, Zelazny, Tufte. I really like the summary and the presentation you have put together on the Pyramid Principle – super job. Some of the slides are in Spanish – is this intentional and if not do you have an English only version? I’m particularly interested in the summary on slide 38.

Thanks,

David

Comment on Go for quick wins by N.Chakrappani

N.Chakrappani — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:21:14 +0000

Hats off to Arnaud. I have been using ‘Problem Solving Technique’ long ago – but not so much ‘technically’ that I have learnt from Arnaud! This blog has been extremely useful for me to refine my approach in a near technically flawless manner that would surely go a long way in uplifting my career as well as prove to be worthy for the clients in resolving their ‘Issues’. Thanks a million!

Chakrappani