After more than 24 years of coaching, I've noticed that teams and organizations still use traditional problem-solving techniques despite these being either obsolete or ineffective. For example, ...

Many of the teachers and students who have written for this blog have described projects in which students worked in teams to solve problems and produce products. Here is a recent example from a ...

Faced with a tough decision that needs to be made quickly, most leaders’ command-and- control instincts kick in. They are often wrong. In a world changing at an extraordinary pace, expecting a leader ...

Grant makers are especially well positioned to get nonprofit organizations to work together on common problems in their communities, write Joseph A. Connor and Stephanie Kadel-Taras, chief executive ...

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Business leaders lack such brisk solutions for their problems today. Global competition, networks, and stakeholder empowerment are transforming former manageable, bounded challenges into endless ...

Gisèle Huff is one of the nation’s most spirited advocates for the transformation of elementary and secondary education (K–12) through school choice and increased use of computer technology. She is ...

Stephen M. Fiore has received funding from federal agencies such as NASA, ONR, DARPA, and the NSF to study collaborative problem solving and teamwork. He is past president of the Interdisciplinary ...