Puzzle or Mystery?

Being a strong Christian leader means developing good thinking skills. (I firmly believe that Christians should be the best thinkers on the planet.)

So I recommend the "Open Secrets" article to you. Malcom Gladwell (of Blink and Tipping Point fame) looks at the Enron case and some WWII intelligence history to help us distinguish puzzles from mysteries.

Puzzles are solved when you get all the pieces. Puzzles -- like the location of Usama bin Laden -- are solvable when you get critical pieces of information and see how they fit together.

Mysteries -- like the Enron financial collapse -- are situations when all the facts are actually in plain sight (years of SEC filings, and company officials giving loads of interviews about what they were doing), but people fail to interpret the facts or make actionable information out of them.

Very readable, good points. Recommended.