“Life gets painful both at work and at home when you’re not making decisions with facts. When all you hear are people’s… — Nat Greene Life Copy Share Image
“There are even a lot of formal problem-solving methods that actively encourage expanding possibilities when problem-solving. As I’ve said before, expansive thinking… — Nat Greene New things Copy Share Image
“Variable Analysis 1. Define the problem. a. What problem are you trying to solve? b. Determine the primary variable • Closely inspect… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, PHYSICIST” — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
“If you get from someone a list of 10 “potential” root causes, they don’t know what’s happening. If you’ve come up with… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
“our job is to efficiently find the root cause. So instead of expanding each variable, we want to see if we can… — Nat Greene High level Copy Share Image
“To dig into the fundamentals, you’ll need to learn both the particulars of that system, and some of the science behind it.… — Nat Greene Science Copy Share Image
“Successfully solving hard problems requires knowing what problem you’re solving. You should put great care into defining the problem in an accurate… — Nat Greene Problem solving Copy Share Image
“If you don’t believe in a simple solution, you are very unlikely to find it, whether it is there or not.” — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
“Don’t ask SMEs to make business decisions for you without stepping back and considering a possible conflict of interest.” — Nat Greene Business Copy Share Image
“Great problem-solvers also have opinions; what makes them different is that they recognize them for what they are and then set them… — Nat Greene Problem solving Copy Share Image
“how do you utilize experts properly? The first rule is stop asking them to solve your problem. Don’t ask them, “what’s causing… — Nat Greene Problem solving Copy Share Image
“Know what problem you’re solving. Often, people work on the wrong problem entirely by making some implicit assumption about what’s causing it.… — Nat Greene Problem solving Copy Share Image
“The practice of guessing so obviously fails in detective work that it’s almost shocking that we guess when we have important problems… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
“Great problem-solvers resist the temptation to guess at every stage of the process. Guessing is a tough habit to break, so get… — Nat Greene Habits Copy Share Image
“So what is a relevant fact? It’s a fact that’s going to answer the question you’re asking that takes you to the… — Nat Greene Habits Copy Share Image
“If you believe that complex solutions are better than simple ones, or if you believe it’s better to take a simple guessing… — Nat Greene Problem solving Copy Share Image
“Brainstorming might be useful in situations where creativity is required. However, solving hard problems is not one of these.” — Nat Greene Creativity Copy Share Image
“Staying on target means understanding and measuring only what you need to in order to drill to the root cause and find… — Nat Greene Goals Copy Share Image
“every unsolved problem is bottlenecked by not understanding the root cause at a fundamental level, and every single one needs some great… — Nat Greene Problem solving Copy Share Image
“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. —HENRY FORD, AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST” — Nat Greene Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Always check that you are operating at the right level and get the facts to confirm that, even when you are not… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —LEONARDO DA VINCI, 15TH-CENTURY PAINTER AND INVENTOR” — Nat Greene Painting Copy Share Image
“Clear your mind of prejudices and assumptions, and look to define the problem as something you can objectively measure to determine whether… — Nat Greene Clear your mind Copy Share Image
