Even if the pattern remains unspoken, several marketing executives, in various fields, recognize the phenomenon.

With 2025 behind us, violent crime — especially murder — is likely down nationally once again. Although it will be months before we have official statistics, early indicators suggest a continuation of ...

More than four million migrants have flocked to the southern border since Vice President Kamala Harris was assigned the task of addressing the "root cause" of the crisis nearly two years ago. U.S.

Are you relying on gut feel to diagnose difficult problems in your organization? If the answer is yes, there is a good chance you are going to be led astray. Why? Because “until you really take the ...

Sakichi Toyoda created the "Five Whys" (5Ys) as a method for identifying root causes of errors or problems way back in the early years of Toyota. He claimed that by asking "why?" five times, one could ...

In a previous article entitled, "What Are Problems?" we theorized that problems cannot or do not exist—at least, not in the way we've been taught to think about them. Because all we have are ...

When a storage element becomes inaccessible in the course of the business day, the order of events typically involves getting an alert, identifying the problem, fixing the problem, getting the system ...

The Biden administration assured us that addressing the “root causes” of illegal immigration would solve the problem (not a crisis!) at the border. The thinking was that as people had more ...

Planning is a key part of staying productive, but it has to be done right. To succeed, you need to understand why previous attempts at planning didn’t pan out. Conducting a personal after-action ...

I’m tired. I’m tired of being poisoned and not taken care of by doctors. I’m tired of trying to handle my health problems. I’m tired of doctors thinking that every time I have a symptom, it’s cancer.