June 30 Steve Lewis had every reason to be pleased with the ways things were turning out. After finishing his graduate degree near the top of his class, he had landed his dream job as an analyst at a prestigious New York investment bank. While the work days were long, and the regular weekend… Read More »
June 18 In the wide world of problems, there are solved and unsolved problems. Solved problems are dead problems, and few people except historians have much interest in them. When people find themselves up against a problem that has been solved before, what is helpful is to look for previous solutions: Previous experience; recipes and… Read More »
December 1 In the Land of Opportunity, Achievement and Despair where professional people spend their working days, there is a high, hard ground and a swamp. On the high, hard ground there is firm footing, good light, and useful, effective tools with which to work. Conditions in the swamp are dramatically different: There is… Read More »
July 10, 2014 Problems are either wicked or tame concluded Horst Rittle and Melvin Webber in the early 1970’s, an insight that has turned out not only to be interesting, but central to all attempts to solve problems. Whether a problem is one or the other determines everything that follows: what should be done, by… Read More »