Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.
For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.