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Trying to solve a problem that hasn’t been clearly defined is not likely to result in a good solution; debating a half-baked idea is likely to kill it. As the boss, you are the editor, not the author.
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089 |
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To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing and solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
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321 |
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Very few problems need to be solved at the twelfth or fifteenth hour of a workday… Nearly everything can wait until morning.
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095 |
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When problems call for creativity and multiple views, place people in teams.
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208 |
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…a range of studies show that the best judgment and problem solving incorporates emotion. In fact, if emotion is entirely ignored in the decision-making equation, the results can be surprisingly harmful.
|
080 |
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Every person on a team knows something that no one else knows. That’s why teams exists: you need more than one person’s set of ideas and skills to solve a problem.
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111 |
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…if a manager learns to ask questions and lead with empathy, they create a very important opportunity for the team member to open up, share, and even solve problems on their own and grow.
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056 |
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But problem solving, however necessary, does not produce results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results.
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446 |
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The litmus test for empowerment is that the product team is able to decide the best way to solve the problems they have been assigned (their team objectives).
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013 |
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…successful problem solvers are more able to determine the deep structure of a problem before they proceed to match a strategy to it.
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115 |
