by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We were once told, “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.” I hope most of us have ignored that.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There was a time when I was repeatedly told at work, “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The idea was that bosses had enough to do already and didn’t need any more problems from little folks like me. If there was a problem, I was supposed to think and think and think up a solution so that I could tell the boss, “This is what is wrong. This is what we should do.” If I didn’t have a remedy, I should not mention the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a great idea. Well, it wasn’t a great idea. The counter example was if there was someone in the hallway and their heart stopped beating and their breathing stopped as well, I wasn’t to tell anyone unless I knew exactly how to revive them. You can see the fallacy here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “That’s an exaggeration,” was the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, someone became a boss because they knew some things that the rest of us didn’t. Right? Therefore, the boss knew how to solve problems that the rest of us didn’t. Right? Well, perhaps I was just na\u00efve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am happy to report that I haven’t heard this problem-with-solution-only phrase in many years. Perhaps it has faded away to that place where stupid ideas should fade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have a problem and don’t have a solution, raise your hand anyways. We can all do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips We were once told, “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.” I hope most of us have ignored that. There was a time when I was repeatedly told at work, “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.” The idea was that bosses had enough to do already and didn’t need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53,337],"tags":[132,174,338],"class_list":["post-3850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-problems","category-solutions","tag-management","tag-problems","tag-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3851,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions\/3851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}