If there are nine people in a room and every person shakes hands exactly once with each of the other people, how many handshakes will there be? How can you prove your answer is correct using a model ...

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, ...

Problems come in many varied flavors in the world of business. Solving a problem means figuring out the best way to tackle it. Unfortunately, the biggest problem with entrepreneurs stuck in a singular ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – New research aims to help educators quantify how the best students perform problem solving with the aid of instructional videos, a step toward learning how to better coach ...

We all have problems—it’s an inevitable part of being alive. But sometimes, when we’re trying to focus our energies on solving these problems, we may actually be doing something far less productive: ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...