When you're solving a problem, do you consider the impact on each person involved?
It's easy to seek to solve a problem by fixing a person or two, but people are not easily fixed. You might even say that people don't need fixing. But sometimes they do need taking care of. Sometimes they are impacted by both the problem and our attempts to solve it.
We need to center our focus on that impact. We need to take care of the people who are part of the solution.
Solve the problem, preserve the person.
Because when we hurt the people, we have not really solved the problem.
-- Doug Smith
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Front Range Leadership: High performance leadership training
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It's harder to solve a problem alone when you are at the center of the problem. Get another perspective. Stay open to your own part of t...
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You can't talk yourself out of a problem unless you share. -- doug smith
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When we are off center it impacts our results. Our solutions will seem 0ff-center as long as we are. Let's start by centering ourselves....
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If you work long enough you'll notice something that will give you a strong perspective. Every year there is a new problem that is capa...
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"When you ignore a problem that is small enough to handle, it often grows into a problem too big to manage." -- James Clear Sour...
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Leaders and others strain under the weight of not knowing. The tension of transition that is uncertain can feel unbearable. We want answers....
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Obvious solutions are great, except that they seldom work. The chances are that the solution that first occurs to you has already been tri...
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It isn't possible or necessary to solve every problem. Focus on the problem in front of you. Solving that first problem builds momentum ...
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We need to agree on the problem before we can agree on the solution. -- doug smith
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A problem is a dynamic in search of a dance. -- doug smith
