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Rather than simply stating, "I am an effective problem-solver," review your experience section and think about how your soft skills helped you achieve those results.
By voicing such statements as "I don't understand what you're driving at" rather than "Here's what can happen if we're not clear on this issue," the recruiter contends that she was seen as a complainer and not as an effective problem-solver, a quality closely associated with executive leadership.
In order to be an effective problem-solver, you must be willing to think, in the words of Dennis Gillings (the founder of the 16,000-employee biotech firm Quintiles, who just donated $50 million to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Public Health to stimulate problem-solving in the public-health sector) "horizontally" as well as "vertically".
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If the company was such an effective problem solver — more effective, at times, than the federal government — why not tackle the big issues of the day?
Being an effective problem solver means staying focused on the facts of the situation and thinking of creative solutions.
McKinsey has been a very effective problem-solver, and Strategic Intelligence might work for McKinsey, but their services don't really overlap.
Are you a good problem-solver?
Einstein, a rather effective problem solver, said we can't solve a problem using the same thinking that got us there.
Students in a rhetoric-focused class become more effective problem-solvers in communication they are more able to seize an opportunity, to establish credibility, to state a case responsibly, to argue ethically, to understand and contribute to a community.
The findings of this study also reject the claim that less effective problem solvers spent shorter time in comprehending a text than more effective and creative ones (Csikszentmihalyi and Getzels 1971; Gick and Holyoak 1983).
Is that one of the cognitive biases that stop people from being effective problem solvers?
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