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Whether you’re an author suffering for writer’s block or a start-up team struggling to satisfy its customers, the solution is to change the question you’re asking.
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070 |
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…a coach’s best tool for understanding what’s going on is to ask. Don’t presume you know what the problem or solution is.
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067 |
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…this ‘solve your own problem’ approach lets you fall in love with what you’re making. You know the problem and the value of its solution intimately. There’s no substitute for that.
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036 |
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Problems are usually pretty simple. We just imagine that they require hard solutions.
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101 |
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Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there’s no glamorous work.
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112 |
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What distinguishes people who are ten times more effective than the norm is not that they work ten times as hard; it’s that they use their creativity to come up with solutions that require one-tenth of the effort.
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121 |
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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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Adopting the mindset that guidance is a gift will ensure that your guidance is helpful even when you can’t offer actual assistance, solutions, or an introduction to someone what can help.
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140 |
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Don’t let the fact that you can’t offer a solution make you reluctant to offer guidance.
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140 |
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…being of service (providing valuable and desired solutions to the needs of others) is a critical element of expanding your network.
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066 |
