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Reframing Problems

Master the art of redefining challenges through real cases where shifting perspective turned intractable problems into elegant solutions. You will practice reframing, first principles thinking, and design thinking through scenarios drawn from medicine, startups, manufacturing, and public policy. These exercises reveal why the way you frame a problem determines your solution space more than any amount of effort within the wrong frame.

intermediate15 minCreative Thinking
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A hospital struggled for years to reduce surgical infections by training staff on better hand hygiene protocols, but compliance remained stubbornly low. Then a surgeon borrowed an idea from aviation: a simple pre-surgery checklist that included hand hygiene as one mandatory step among many. Infections dropped by 40 percent. What creative thinking technique made this breakthrough possible?