Can you do it all by yourself?
If your problem extends to other people, do they really need to get involved? Even that guy down the hall who slurps and yogurt and roots for the wrong football team? Even your ex, who works in accounting now and has to approve your budget?
Problems solved in isolation tend to re-emerge. Centered problem solving involves all stakeholders.
Even the ones we're not too happy about.
-- Douglas Brent Smith
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Highly structured? Wildly improvised? Harmonic, or distorted? Fast or slow? Analytics help, but there's nothing quite like a touch of t...
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The mastery of problem solving begins with the mastery of self. -- doug smith
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Whenever I find a way to embrace joy some part of a problem fades away. -- doug smith
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Do you try to do everything on your own? If you're part of a team, and especially if you are leading a team, it goes better by collabora...
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Sometimes it's more important to be centered than to be right. -- doug smith
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Things change. Problems deepen. Solving a persistent problem might require us to let go of what has fixed it in the past. -- doug smith
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A truly ambitious goal will give you a new problem to solve. -- doug smith
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Have you ever held onto a problem just because you couldn't find the perfect solution, an elegant, efficient, bruise-free choice? Tha...
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It's the system. Or maybe it's the process. It might not be you at all. It might not be your team at all. Personal problems come fro...
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Problems bring pain. Maybe it's physical, or emotional, or logistical-- as long as the problem is there, so is that pain. When we solv...
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