More often than not, you’re offering up insights and solutions (brilliant or not) to the wrong problem. You’ve been suckered into believing that the first challenge that’s mentioned is the real challenge. It rarely is. But because we’re all twitchy-keen to help and primed to get into action, we love to jump in and solve the first thing that shows up—even when it’s not the actual thing that needs to be figured out. At this very moment, throughout your organization, people are working hard on non-critical issues because leaders haven’t stayed curious long enough to find out the real challenge.
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