Getting tired of dealing with problems?
in Professional on Systemic thinking
If you think you can get rid of all your problems, take a look at what Ichak Adizes had to say about that…
What is the one thing in life you can be guaranteed of?
Change.
If you aren’t changing it means you are dead, so be happy about that. But when things change, that does that cause?
Problems.
As a smart person when you are faced with a problem you find…
Solutions!
Aaand what do solutions cause…?
Oops.
As you can see, you will always have problems:
The real question to ask is: Do you have the right problems?
For a new startup, battling with cashflow is the right kind of problem to have. A company that has been around for 10 years and having cashflow issues is experiencing the wrong problem.
Celebrate and embrace your right problems. Resist the urge sweep them under the rug or they will become wrong problems. When you find a genuine wrong problem, step back. Think about how the systems allowed that problem to happen and how the system could be changed to prevent it in future.
Note: I first came across the change-problems-solutions loop via the work of Izak Adizes
