Find the causes
When you have the knack, delegating is a lovely thing that comes with the triple benefit of clearing your inbox, getting the work done in the…
We all like an easy fix. We like to think that when we dig a little underneath a problem and discover an obvious issue, that it’s THE issue, that this one thing caused the horror and all we have to do is tweak it a smidge and polish it a little and, ta da!, all is good with the world.
It doesn’t work that way.
It’s never just one thing. When there’s a problem, if you take the time to track down what’s really going on, you always finds it’s this and this and this and this. Everything is connected, so a problem here makes a problem there which causes issues in that other place too.
If you really want to break away, gather the talents around a white board, draw the boxes and make the connections. Fix together what you find together.
Skippy strategy: Find the causes, fix the causes.
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