Solving Tough Problems
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- ideaman
Last week we learned that the authoritarian approach to solving tough problems, where the expert, the boss or the politician attempts to solve it does not work. Rather, it hurts and as Adam Kahane, author of Solving Tough Problems, learned from his dental nurse, when something you are doing hurts then stop doing it.
- detritus0
Aye, best entrust the important decisions to the people.
Catering to the lowest common denominator's a much more reasoned approach to problem solving.
- TheBlueOne0
An architect we work with said this to me once in casual conversation, which I jotted down and keep above my desk:
"Problems always happen. Problems are solvable."
Kinda keeps things in perspective for me.
- ********0
"Solving tough problems" - maybe true
"Solving tough problems in time" - certainly not true
"Solving tough problems in time before another problem comes up" - definitely not true.
- ********0
“It has been said there are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice on a dark night.”
- jfletcher0
So if the expert doesn't solve problems.... who does? And don't give me that crowd sourcing BS.
