Quotes About Problem-solving

Sharp, incisive, clever thinking is steadily becoming a lost art, more and more the domain of specialists and gurus. The trend is troubling and raises the question, Is America losing its ability to think? If, for argument's sake, we define thinking as the use of knowledge and reasoning to solve problems and plan and produce favorable outcomes, the answer is, apparently, yes.

theory is good for you because studying it expands your mind... Specific technical knowledge, though useful today, becomes outdated in just a few years. Consider instead the abilities to think, to express yourself clearly and precisely, to solve problems, and to know when you haven't solved a problem. These abilities have lasting value. Studying theory trains you in these areas.

That is how entrepreneurs work. Where others see a barrier, they imagine a logical solution and then turn it into reality.

Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

Scientists often describe the autotelic aspects of their work as the exhilaration that comes from the pursuit of truth and of beauty. What they seem to describe, however, is the joy of discovery, of solving a problem, of being able to express an observed relationship in a simple and elegant form. So what is rewarding is not a mysterious and ineffable goal but the activity of science itself. It is the pursuit that counts, not the attainment.

preguntas (figura 9.6). Figura 9.6.

Toyota ha considerado desde hace tiempo que una de las ventajas competitivas de la compañía es su capacidad para resolver problemas de forma permanente y para mejorar procesos estacionarios. El capital intelectual de la compañía es tremendo gracias a que la totalidad del personal de la compañía está encargada de resolver los problemas propios de su puesto. Declaración de KATHI HANLEY

2.Abordar el obstáculo u obstáculos a través del conocimiento, la comprensión y la eliminación de sus causas. Figura 5.1. El rol de un estado objetivo.

Challenge in hand, and all stuck together, State Fire Marshal William Cowhey observed: "There's enough brains and good will in this room to overcome this problem that has hit Chicagoland." (Results have indicated that it wasn't a very big room.)

Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

And what if the Rockets only had 99 legs.

I swiftly discovered that there are few things in DIY (and possibly life) that can't be solved with a large mallet, a bag of ten-centimetre nails and some swearing.

What good is it to be sad after identifying the problem? You can only be sad when you are still confused, otherwise your sadness is just a matter of choice.

The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.

There is an old joke: A physicist, an engineer, and an economist are stranded on a desert island with nothing but canned food. The physicist proposes to make a fire and heat the can until it bursts. The engineer proposes to climb to a local ridge and drop the can, which will burst on landing. The economist says: "Assume a can opener.

It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

The formal operational thinker has the ability to consider many different solutions to a problem before acting. This greatly increases efficiency, because the individual can avoid potentially unsuccessful attempts at solving a problem. The formal operational person considers past experiences, present demands, and future consequences in attempting to maximize the success of his or her adaptation to the world.

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

Para disolver un problema que ahora te parece tan real, todo lo que tienes que hacer es quitar tu atención de ello.

Not knowing the right definitions is no different from not having the right tools to fix a burst water pipe.

The American is not intolerable because he believes he is important individually, but because he possesses, insofar as he is an American, the solution to every problem.

Getting to the root cause to eliminate problems and defects is close to the heart of lean manufacturing.  Just solving a problem to allow it to occur again is such a waste of human ingenuity.  Dr. Shingo would want us to spend a little more time up front, to investigate causes a little deeper to insure that the same problem would never happen again.

Don't tell them how to do it!  Just teach them the principles of Lean, challenge them, and let them do it."   John Miller – Gemba Research