It’s important to take a look at your business and identify the potential problems that could be hurting the bottom line.

But you don’t always need a therapist to recognize and correct an unhealthy pattern in your life. Here’s a primer for how you can solve the problems that don’t require professional help.

The systems thinking approach involves three distinct pillars—find leverage points, draw out patterns, and clarify the problem.

A baffling mindtwister requires outside-of-the-box thinking and keen pattern-identifying skills to get to the bottom of it.

How good is your company at problem solving? Probably quite good, if your managers are like those at the companies I’ve studied. What they struggle with, it turns out, is not solving problems ...