Problem Solving Tips - Article by Tanya Lacy

Problem Solving Article Solutions Thinking Savvy: Ideas + Strategies to produce problem-solving people.

This article is chock full of tips appears in Business Franchise Magazine January/February edition - Business Solutions Section.
Written by Tanya Lacy, Resource Speaker, Founder Intercept.

One of the keys from the article is thinking in the gaps.

Having a look at what's missing and getting there by asking questions untill all roads lead to understanding what's missing. This gives you the clues on how to fill it and what the solutions need to be. Sounds simple, but common sense isn't always common.

Problem Solving Quotations

Henry Ford
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
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Theodore Rubin
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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Billy Graham
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
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Denis Waitley
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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Unknown Author
Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but won't get you anywhere.
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John Dewey
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
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Norman Vincent Peale
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself - so always think positively.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the

Bill Gates - "Any tough problem can be solved"...

This is taken from a piece in the Telegraph UK. It is from Bill Gates commenting at a conference for Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. Also known as TED. At this conference he released a swarm of mosquitoes into the audience.

"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes, "he yelled to the crowd before unleashing the insects, which were not carrying the disease. "I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people shoule be infected."

The organisers of the TED Conference said it was an "amazing moment" and provided the audience with "food for thought".

Gates said that more money was being spent finding a cure for baldness than developing drugs to combat malaria. "Now, baldness is a terrible thinkg and rich men are fflicted,"he joked. "That is why that priority has been set.

"The market does not drive scientists, thinkers, or governments to do the right things. Only by paying attention and making people care can we make as much progress as we need to".

He called for greater distribution of insect nets and other protective gear, as revealed that an anti-maleria vaccine funded by his foundation and currently in development would enter a more advanced testing phase in coming months.

"I am an optimist; I think any tough problem can be solved," he said