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Certainties & Serendipities

experiments in consulting

Ten Commandments of a Problem Solver

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  1. Don’t frown upon problems
  2. Don’t fail to ask what is the problem
  3. Don’t shoot the messenger
  4. Don’t polarize
  5. Don’t torture context to fit your solution
  6. Don’t replace backbone with a wishbone
  7. Aim for success, not perfection
  8. Talk their language
  9. Tap the power of simplicity
  10. Move on

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Written by Joseph Jude

January 9th, 2011 at 10:09 am

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  1. I agree with most of the points here barring points 7 and 8. I think they make the whole list look servile an obsequious.

    Siddhartha

    17 Feb 11 at 10:10 pm

  2. Sid: Read the corresponding posts (http://goo.gl/6Bbry & http://goo.gl/6Bbry) and tell me how they are servile. I often work with well recognized experts in their domain but don’t know what a browser is (they do get to internet and everything just they dont have to know the name of the application is browser). Talking the language of the client isn’t servile; it is professionalism.

    And there is no perfect world. In US laws are conducive to business; in India it is the opposite. But everyone lines up to open a business in India because that is where the money is now. No entrepreneur (be it in the US or India) got a perfect situation to launch their business. They worked with what they got and made it successful.

    Joseph Jude

    2 Mar 11 at 3:03 pm

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