Businesspeople see themselves as problem solvers. For most, success in so doing is usually about overcoming the cause of the problem or coping with its effect. Vistage-St. Louis member and communication consultant Les Landes suggests that many times the solution to the problem can be the problem itself.
In a short blog post, Mr. Landes offers some counterintuitive advice on problem solving with the example of the perhaps the greatest maritime tragedy ever, the sinking of the Titanic which cost 1,500 lives. He suggests that a simple solution might have been close at hand but in the panic of reacting to striking an iceberg, no one could see it.
Perhaps the solutions to your problems are the problems themselves.
