BRX Pro Tip: Solve Problems Faster
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, anyone who has ever heard me on the air knows that I am absolutely committed to producing better results in less time. Let’s talk a little bit about problem solving and how we can do it faster.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:17] Yeah, this is one of those things where if a problem kind of bubbles up, it’s so much better to deal with it right away and solve it one way or another than kind of putting it on the back burner and hoping it goes away by itself. A lot of times, procrastinating on a problem, it just doesn’t work. It doesn’t get better, and it just typically gets worse. And then, a small problem that you could have solved in a minute becomes a big problem that now you’re dealing with.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:47] So, I think it’s much better, just as a philosophy, that if something bubbles up in the present, deal with it right away. You know, triage it to the best of your ability right when it happens to prevent it from becoming a bigger problem in the future. And a lot of times, we don’t want to deal with kind of these little nagging issues, but you know. And I think this becomes clearer and clearer as you get older in your own health. It’s a lot better to be dealing with issues when they’re smaller than they are if they get worse down the line because these things never get better by themselves.
Stone Payton: [00:01:24] I think, too, that this is one of those areas where having a few working disciplines really can serve you well. Like for us, we always try to err on the side of generosity. For us, we live by bad news first, so we communicate it internally so that we can get the right resources on it. If you have some of those core values or operating disciplines, it helps you guide the decisions, so you can make a decision that’s necessary to to live into and solve that problem. So, I think this is a good opportunity to suggest having just a handful of those operating disciplines can really help you on the problem solving front and get it done faster.
