Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.

How to Raise Problems Without Sounding Negative Many people hesitate to bring up workplace issues because they don’t want to be perceived as difficult.

Solving hard problems changes the way you think and look at the world. Pattern recognition: Make the gears mesh. I’ll take an analogy and compareproblem solving to a system.

My initial reaction was shock, but after the discussion I told myself to take a deep breath and consider the “feedback” in a ...

Cyber technologies underpin every facet of the economy and are critical for national security. Cyber and cyber-enabled systems are rapidly growing in both complexity and scale, and - despite ...