The machine needed oil. The garden needed water. The team member needed attention.
Problems appear from unmet needs.
Seldom do problems occur without warning. Often, the problems are completely avoidable. By providing our responsibilities with what they need, we can often keep things in order, running well, centered, and happy. When we ignore this need, more problems pop up.
Once you've solved that problem, do you have a maintenance plan to prevent it from recurring?
-- 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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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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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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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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