My former advisor and good friend Pol Spanos has a great saying: “intuition is a good servant but a terrible master.” It’s not because you’re good somewhere that you’re good everywhere Sometimes your knowledge and skills will transfer from your…
Whether looking for the root causes of your problem or identifying solutions, you must be collectively exhaustive (CE). That means looking for all the possible solutions. That’s fine in theory but in practice, that induces paralysis by analysis. So you need to…
To solve your problem you need to ask how you can solve it—that is, identify various solutions. But should you do so from the get go? Ask how to solve your problem only if you already know its root cause(s)…