According to Mitroff & Silvers in "Dirty rotten strategies" (2010), type three errors occur when we get the perfect solution to the wrong problem. Common causes for solving the wrong problems are: 1. Closed belief systems - resulting in defining the problem too narrowly. This happens when we use a single preferred discipline, profession, ideology, worldview or set of assumptions ignoring or discrediting the values systems, professions, ideologies and worldviews of others. This leads to a single definition of a problem that is accepted beyond question and then staunchly defended.
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