Extracting Solutions
Charles Kettering said, “A problem well stated is half-solved.”
Extracting your solutions is about creating a strategy to break through your limiting factors. When you have correctly identified why your challenges exist, the path to bring change becomes clearer and more apparent. And when it comes to solutions the more options, the better. You have to spend time working through what I call, “Possibility Pathways.” Possibility Pathways are potential options that could solve your challenges. Breaking down your solutions into multiple possible pathways helps you objectively assess options as you explore the outcomes. There is more than one way to lead and navigate to the next level. This is why examining the possibility pathways helps you know the best course of action.
Many people never take the time to plan out every possible solution. As a result, they get stuck engaging their challenges and never extract the right strategy to rise above them. They are frantically trying hard to find the one path and in doing so fail to see all the other options.
You don’t just find solutions; you create them. This means there is a craftsmanship to being a great decision maker. Breakthroughs don’t just happen; they happen progressively. It’s through options that we can clearly measure the best road to a solution. Businessman J.P. Morgan said, “No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.”
“Breakthroughs don’t just happen; they happen progressively.”
John Barrett
Let me take you through the extracting process by creating possibility pathways to gain clarity on the best solutions to move you and your organization to the next level. Henry Ford said, “Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
There are three ways to extract solutions: Get around the right people, get your head in the clouds, and get experimenting with possibilities.
In my book, E3 Leadership: Why E + E + E = E I break these down. I would love for you to get a copy on Amazon Prime here and take your problem solving to a whole new level.
