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You can’t solve a problem without good quality information. If you recall the reports of unintended acceleration that Toyota experienced a couple years ago, you know that one of their challenges was the inability to duplicate the problem. Therefore, their best source of information was from a driver who was

In the past week clients from two very large companies asked me how to address painfully slow decision making that is occurring in their organization. In fact, one was an oil & gas industry giant whose employee surveys from the last 5 years have listed slow decisions as the #1

By Lou Quinto Executive Coach and Speaker One of the advantages of the information age we live in is that data is relatively easy to obtain. (Thank you Google, Bing and the corps of other popular search engines!) This is good, right? Of course it is… Unless you’re trying to

Do you want to know the secret to creativity? It’s focus. Most people remember that it’s important to defer judgment and look for unique combinations but until you focus, creativity rarely happens. And the narrower you make your focus, the greater the likelihood that you will achieve a breakthrough idea.