Steve Jobs, problem-solving, and innovative thinking

Via Business Insider:

"Steve would walk in the door and say, 'Alright, what's going on?'" Rosen said. "Somebody in the room would say we're trying to figure this out, maybe go to a whiteboard, and say we couldn't figure out what to do."

Jobs had a talent for immediately finding an answer to the problem.

"And [Steve] would say, 'What about doing this?'" Rosen said. "And you could look around the room and you could just see people dumbfounded, their jaws dropping, because it was a really good idea."

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This is the ability to process information quickly, being able to connect different bits of information and process it in new ways. It’s an element of innovative thinking.