For every Problem, there are at least 2 Solutions and there may also be some hidden Opportunities.
Link to P=2S+O worksheet/template.
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In the last blog I mentioned P=2S+O is about thinking…thinking aimed at success.
I recently read ‘HOW SUCCESFUL PEOPLE THINK, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life’, John C. Maxwell, 2009.
Here is a link to John C. Maxwell
http://www.johnmaxwell.com
Providing a formula like P=2S+O is intended to be a starting point.
Tools are required to help our people excel at converting Problems into Solutions and Opportunities.
We create tools for problem-solving.
And, we seek out the advice of experts...seminars, audio tapes, books, etc.
John Maxwell’s little book - HOW SUCCESFUL PEOPLE THINK, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life - is as good a guide as I have come across. In clear and simple words, John introduces several types of thinking and he provides some good suggestions on Why we should and How we can approach thinking from different directions.
Here are samples of John Maxwell suggestions that fit very well with P=2S+O:
HARNESS CREATIVE THINKING - Characteristics of Creative Thinkers:
- Creative Thinkers value ideas
- Creative Thinkers explore options
- Creative Thinkers embrace ambiguity
- Creative Thinkers celebrate the offbeat
- Creative Thinkers connect the unconnected
- Creative Thinkers don’t fear failure
EXPLORE POSSIBILITY THINKING – why you should become a Possibility Thinker:
- Possibility thinking increases your possibilities
- Possibility thinking draws opportunities and people to you
- Possibility thinking increases others’ possibilities
- Possibility thinking allows you to dream big dreams
- Possibility thinking makes it possible to rise above average
- Possibility thinking gives you energy
- Possibility thinking keeps you from giving up
P=2S+Omeshes well with thinking as John Maxwell describes it...thinking aimed at Success.
More on this in the next blog...