Collaborate Instead of Commanding

 

As a recovering know-it-all I remember making many mistakes, trying to solve someone else's problem. I've learned that maybe, just maybe, I can help, but it is highly unlikely that I'll solve that problem.

The problem with solving someone else's problem is that it may not fit into their schedule. Or their plan.

Work together. Collaborate. Share. If the solution emerges between you, let them take credit for the brilliance of the solution. You'll never run out of problems to help on, unless you try to solve them all on your own.

-- doug smith

A Touch of the Poet

Highly structured? Wildly improvised? 

Harmonic, or distorted? Fast or slow?

Analytics help, but there's nothing quite like a touch of the poet in solving problems. The deep pondering, the pedantic piecing together, the frantic splash of passion.

Whether or not they know it every problem solver has a touch of the poet.

Are you in touch with your touch of the poet?

-- doug smith