Smart Solutions
IT IS WONDERFULLY SATISFYING when you arrive at an elegant solution to a problem. As your career advances, the problems you must solve grow in size and complexity, as does the impact of your decisions. In this light, coming up with quick, simple answers is not always the easiest, or the best, thing to do. Before diving into solutions mode, leaders can benefit from taking a step back to consider the question posed by the title of Thomas Wedell- Wedellsborg’s article “Are You Solving the Right Problems?” In a study of 106 C-suite executives, he found that 85% of them agreed that their organizations were bad at diagnosing problems. Tackling the wrong issues wastes time and money. The author advises reframing, to identify what the real problem may be, which opens…