Running headlong into a problem and then solving it can give you a barrier to competition, or at least a remarkable head start in the marketplace.

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The company made clear to the workers that their primary job was to identify problems as soon as they occurred and then engage in creative problem solving to find solutions.

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The key, he said, to inventing wonderful things the world can't live without is to ask yourself what the world's biggest problems are and then set yourself a target - solving them.

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The solutions were then correlated to mood and method of problem solving.

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Unfortunately, politicians prefer the blame-the-victim game, so they attack the companies instead of solving the underlying problem (and then they wonder why job creation is anemic).

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She says that picking patterns and materials, customizing them to her own needs, and then producing a finished product was an excellent introduction to problem solving.

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He has been thinking about the problem of learning for over three decades, starting with courses in problem solving that he taught at the University of California, Irvine, and then with artificial intelligence systems that Xerox built for the Army to better troubleshoot broken electronics.

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And if we can ride out another ten years through a diplomatic approach to solving Iran's nuclear crisis, then that country's demography also points to an entirely new beginning just over the horizon.

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