Growing up in Zambia, Choolwe Mandona did not always plan on becoming an engineer. “I actually was pretty afraid to do engineering,” said Choolwe, who graduated from Miami University in 2013 with a ...

This proverb emphasise tackling issues at their source. Cutting grass at the root prevents regrowth, a lesson for life's ...

Quote of the Day: Ancient wisdom from Liezi urges us to tackle the root cause of problems, not just their symptoms. Modern ...

Life science organizations today are faced with increasing regulatory pressure to offer products that are compliant, effective and efficient. While this is certainly the goal for many companies, ...

Factories are more than collections of machines: they are decision systems made up of people interpreting signals under ...

Are you relying on gut feel to diagnose difficult problems in your organization? If the answer is yes, there is a good chance you are going to be led astray. Why? Because “until you really take the ...

In a previous article entitled, "What Are Problems?" we theorized that problems cannot or do not exist—at least, not in the way we've been taught to think about them. Because all we have are ...

Do you play pool? I sure don’t. But I know enough about the game to use it as a metaphor for the hidden reasons we don’t do what we say we will. The object is to get balls into pockets using a big ...