Management & Leadership

This Is Problem Solving for Business

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How to identify roadblocks and move beyond them

By The Blinkist Curators

What's it about?

Management & Leadership Entrepreneurship

Test, evolve, and scale. That's the basic formula anyone looking to grow their business should bear in mind. Part of this requires the ability and flexibility to problem solve on the fly and especially when things don't go to plan. This collection combines problem solving classics with new approaches to effectively solve your business problems. Learn how to leverage market gaps, what the basics of problem solving are, and why curiosity and willingness to change are key to reinvention and business relevance.

This Is Problem Solving for Business

How to identify roadblocks and move beyond them

Problem Solving 101

Problem Solving 101

A Simple Book for Smart People

The Creative Thinking Handbook

The Creative Thinking Handbook

Chris Griffiths & Melina Costi

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Problem Solving in Business

Improve Problem Solving In Any Company: Melanie Penna

Improve Problem Solving In Any Company: Melanie Penna

The best businesses go looking for problems—both their customers’ and their employees’— and solves them. In this episode, Comcast's Melanie Penna explains how they innovated new processes to find pain points and get them solved quickly. You'll learn how to get valuable insights from employees, and not just a clock-in mentality. You'll also discover new methods to deliver positive change fast in a company of any size!

Leadership Blindspots

Leadership Blindspots

Robert Bruce Shaw

How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses that Matter

Running Lean

Iterate from a Plan A to A Plan That Works

Daniel Schreiber: How to Leverage Market Gaps

Daniel Schreiber: How to Leverage Market Gaps

We all hate dealing with insurance, and for good reason. A lot of the time the experience of making a claim can be worse than the incident that caused it! That's why the market started to demand a new kind of insurance provider—one that looks a lot like Daniel Schreiber's Lemonade. In this episode, you'll hear Schreiber talk about how Lemonade disrupted and innovated in an old-school, established industry, to get insight on how you might do the same. You'll also learn how to spot a gap in the market that's ripe for development, and how to use first principles thinking to build your idea into a business.

Will It Fly?

How to Test Your Next Business Idea so You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

Growth IQ

Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business

The Road to Reinvention

The Road to Reinvention

How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation

How to Deal With a Sudden Loss of Revenue

How to Deal With a Sudden Loss of Revenue

As an entrepreneur encountering a sudden loss in revenue is not uncommon—in fact, it’s almost inevitable. And no matter how good you are at planning ahead, external forces that are out of your control can suddenly blindside your business. So, what can you do? In this episode, Omar explains the strategies that you are in control of, and how you can bounce back as quickly as possible.

Fix This Next

Mike Michalowicz

Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business

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