Hec Stories

Keith Grint, researcher, Emeritus Professor at Warwick Business School and author of "Leadership. A Very Short Introduction", has taught leadership for 10+ years at the HEC-Oxford Executive Master « Consulting & Coaching for Change ». Herbert Simon, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 for "his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations", is considered by many as the father of decision sciences. Simon's three stages in Rational Decision Making are Intelligence, Design, Choice. Decision-making was for him identifying and solving problems and he underlined that what is the most important and the most difficult isn’t "problem solving », which is the dominant mindset - but « problem finding ». And « problem finding » requires knowing how to identify and formulate problems. That's why I was so interested by Keith Grint research and asked him to speak to us about how to redecide problems using his critical, tame and wicked framework. During this phone intervi