Gerald Nadler

Thinkers1924 to 2014Industrial engineer

Works

  • Breakthrough Thinking (with Shozo Hibino), 1990

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Known for

A University of Southern California professor of industrial and systems engineering, he argued in Breakthrough Thinking that problem solvers should first expand a problem's purposes into a hierarchy, asking what the purpose of each purpose is, and then design toward the ideal solution for the largest purpose that matters.

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