The first step to fixing a process is mapping it. High performance leaders seek to understand problems before solving them.
How much time do you spend working to understand your most serious problems?
Where do you look for help?
What sources of help might you be overlooking?
-- Doug Smith
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It''s a challenge to your composure, to your centeredness. It's an attack on your boundaries. How do you react? Nothing gives an...
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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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You could think of it as the ostrich effect - putting your head in the sand to avoid a danger. You can't see it anymore, you don't n...
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We can push really hard on hard problems and not get anywhere. The problem may be too fixed to get fixed. It may be too tough to push over. ...
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We're all in a hurry. Urgency is a way of life. When we're working on a problem it feels as if the faster we solve it the better. Bu...
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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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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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