Dreamer doers in the crowd find compelling reasons to exist, find problems and solve them – leaving behind a significant measurable impact on a really big scale!
Practical approaches to problem solving requires thorough understanding of the problem, its context and impact of solving the same in a big way! Then finding affordable, easily repeatable and self sustainable solutions will become the priority. Focus, Participation and Desire to spread happiness then reinforces the solution making it really ‘viral’.
Paul Polak offers a great insight into his amazing problem solving approach. Though the context is to help people get “Out of Poverty”, the principle applies to any situation.
- Go to where the action is!
- Talk to the people and listen to what they have to say!
- Know the specific context of the problem!
- Think and Act Big – stay away from moderate, mediocre approach to problem solving
- Think Like a Child – Keep the fresh outlook – Suspend Judgment!
- See and Do the Obvious – Leave your blind spots behind by immersing yourself in the problem!
- Don’t reinvent the wheel – Shamelessly use what has worked!
- Make sure that the approach has positive, measurable impact that can be scaled up!
- Design to Specific Price Targets! – Affordability rules the choice of solution!
- Keep a practical three year work plans – Vision without a plan for first three years will not get you there!
- Continue to learn from your customers! – Be closer, relevant and significant in their journey!
- Don’t be distracted by what other people say – otherwise you will never get there!
Listen to his time tested, practical advice distilled out of several decades of dedicated journey to help people have their lives!
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A true dreamer doer in the crowd to emulate….
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