I’ve been a problem solver for most of my life.
I was an astrophysics major in college, trained to solve problems in math and physics.
Problem Solving
The secret to asking better questions
It’s been a travel-filled year for me, as I’ve been on the road frequently to give keynotes.
When I’m checking out of a hotel, I almost always get the same question.
The one question I ask myself frequently
Back when I was a professor, I was appointed the chair of a faculty committee.
At the time, the committee had a decades-old practice of holding meetings every month. Having sat through—no, suffered through—these meetings as a junior committee member, I knew we could cut the number in half and still get the job done.
The mark of a true genius
How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that!
This was the reaction of the biologist Thomas H. Huxley to Charles Darwin’s publication of On the Origin of Species.