What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem?
Author: Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633697231

"The author makes a compelling case that we often start solving a problem before thinking deeply about whether we are solving the right problem. If you want the superpower of solving better problems, read this book." -- Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Google Are you solving the right problems? Have you or your colleagues ever worked hard on something, only to find out you were focusing on the wrong problem entirely? Most people have. In a survey, 85 percent of companies said they often struggle to solve the right problems. The consequences are severe: Leaders fight the wrong strategic battles. Teams spend their energy on low-impact work. Startups build products that nobody wants. Organizations implement "solutions" that somehow make things worse, not better. Everywhere you look, the waste is staggering. As Peter Drucker pointed out, there's nothing more dangerous than the right answer to the wrong question. There is a way to do better. The key is reframing, a crucial, underutilized skill that you can master with the help of this book. Using real-world stories and unforgettable examples like "the slow elevator problem," author Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg offers a simple, three-step method - Frame, Reframe, Move Forward - that anyone can use to start solving the right problems. Reframing is not difficult to learn. It can be used on everyday challenges and on the biggest, trickiest problems you face. In this visually engaging, deeply researched book, you’ll learn from leaders at large companies, from entrepreneurs, consultants, nonprofit leaders, and many other breakthrough thinkers. It's time for everyone to stop barking up the wrong trees. Teach yourself and your team to reframe, and growth and success will follow.

What's the Problem? A Story Teaching Problem Solving

What's the Problem? A Story Teaching Problem Solving
Author: Bryan Smith
Publisher: Boys Town Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2019-09-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 154574792X

This story introduces and encourages readers to use SODAS (Situation, Options, Disadvantages, Advantages, and Solution) as a way to logically and thoughtfully figure out how to solve any problem, from the silly to the serious. What’s the Problem? adds to the wildly popular Executive FUNction book series.

What Do You Do with a Problem?

What Do You Do with a Problem?
Author: Kobi Yamada
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2021
Genre: Creative ability
ISBN: 9781952183805

This is the story of a persistent problem and the child who isn't so sure what to make of it. The longer the problem is avoided, the bigger it seems to get. But when the child finally musters up the courage to face it, the problem turns out to be something quite different than it appeared. What Do You Do With a Problem? is a story for anyone, at any age, who has ever had a problem that they wished would go away. It's a story to inspire you to look closely at that problem and to find out why it's here. Because you might discover something amazing about your problem... and yourself.

What's Wrong with Rights?

What's Wrong with Rights?
Author: Radha D'Souza
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Human rights
ISBN: 9780745335407

A critique of liberal rights exposing the paradox between 'good' capitalism and the reality of its actions

What's Wrong with the Poor?

What's Wrong with the Poor?
Author: Mical Raz
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 146960888X

In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the poor had less, and African Americans, disproportionately represented among America's poor, were seen as having practically nothing. Raz analyzes the political and cultural context that led child mental health experts, educators, and policymakers to embrace this deprivation-based theory and its translation into liberal social policy. Deprivation theory, she shows, continues to haunt social policy today, profoundly shaping how both health professionals and educators view children from low-income and culturally and linguistically diverse homes.

What's the Problem in Problem Gaming?

What's the Problem in Problem Gaming?
Author: Jessica Enevold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9789187957888

What's the problem in problem gaming? is a valuable contribution to the debates about young people's gaming habits and the highly contested concept of video game addiction. The chapters in the volume provide a number of perspectives on the issue, such as players' life conditions and lifestyle choices, problem gaming from a family perspective, the voices of treatment professionals, and how game design can become problematic. How problem gaming is framed is a highly relevant issue that affects policies surrounding the consumption of videogames. This anthology is a just in time contribution and an essential read for researchers in the field as well as for policymakers, social workers, clinical psychologists, teachers and others who encounter problem.

What is Your Problem?

What is Your Problem?
Author: Jack Dee
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1529413389

'So funny, and so wise. Just like the man himself' - Richard Osman 'I inhaled it. HILARIOUS. So sharp - it really made me laugh' - Katharine Ryan Jack Dee has been very busy during lockdown and would like to update everybody on what he's been up to. While the nation has been baking bread and clearing out cupboards, Jack has retrained online as a psychotherapist and is now open for business. After FOUR HOURS study, he has a certificate of completion from The Ruislip College of Advansed Learning [sic]. If you have an emotional, relationship, work or other issue that you need help with, or if you've just totally lost your sh*t and can't take it anymore, then he would love to hear from you. This book will be a rich compendium of your problems along with Jack's unique, very professional, advice.