Do something different

I had an interesting discussion, related to work effort and getting stuck in the familiar patterns of work life. There are many times when the first and only answer to a problem is to work harder; to keep exercising the same methods to get out of a bad situation.

Fundamentally, in a business setting, I believe this comes from fear of failure. The willingness to take risks and accept failure is not built into most people's psychology, even risks which are not of a huge in nature. In addition, there are cultural barriers built into most companies which punish all failures. The option of failure as a course of learning is not available.

There comes a time when you have to Do Something Different. Doing something in different ways at least gives an opportunity to try to solve the problems in a new way. There is a chance of failure, which should be mitigated as far as possible through good team oriented thinking and planning. Nevertheless, the risk of failure will be there. We have to take the risk and try something different. In most people and most business cultures, this is not an easy thing to do.

The gist of the discussion which triggered this entry in the blog was centered around (convincing to try) taking a different route. More later in the success of the attempt.......