The easiest way to solve tough problems is also the one we usually think of last. Imagine you're facing a problem at work--maybe your big presentation isn't quite working, your new design lacks something, or your hiring strategy needs a tune-up. How do you proceed with solving the problem? Ask a dozen different people for advice and you may get a dozen different suggestions. From a new recruiting strategy to an additional slide to a new product feature, everyone will have something to add, but you know what no one is likely to suggest? Taking something away from how you currently do things. According to a much buzzed-about new study recently published in Nature, humans have a pervasive bias to add things on when searching for solutions--and that's causing us to miss out on a whole lot of great ideas. Human brains love to add, forget to subtract. There's already a huge number of known biases that mess up our decision making, but as Diana Kwon recently reporte...
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