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PROBLEM TYPES

  Two professors who study the science of complexity - Brenda Zimmerman of York University and Sholom Glouberman of the University of Toronto have proposed a distinction among three different kinds of problems in the world.  a. Simple Problems e.g. baking a cake from a mix. There is a recipe. Sometimes there are few basic techniques to learn. But once these are mastered, following the recipe brings a high likelihood of success.           b. Complicated Problems e.g. sending a rocket to the moon. They can sometimes be broken down into a series of simple problems. But there is no straightforward recipe. Success frequently requires multiple people, often multiple teams, and specialized expertise. Unanticipated difficulties are frequent. Timing and coordination become serious concerns.           c. Complex Problems e.g. raising a child. Once you learn how to send a rocket to the moon, you can repeat the process and perfec...

Feedback : A Way to Look Brilliant With Little Efforts

I was recently reading an article on LinkedIn which was based upon a Customer's Feedback and Response. This article listed the personal experience of the writer's logistics arrangement and the price savings on the hotel he had booked while planning for a vacation. The article opened with the sentence ' In today's world where everyone is pushing for new sales conversions, do we really care about our customer’s feedback? Most of us might say “YES WE DO” but “DO WE ACTUALLY”? After reading the article, I just thought of writing about feedback because I firmly believe on the importance of feedback and its importance as a tool for enhancing one’s efficiency and effectiveness. Most companies usually ask for feedback because it is a piece of information which the company is better at having rather than none. Average companies may ignore the feedback as it may temporarily make them feel uncomfortable or unhappy, but the BRILLIANT ones ac...