04 March 2011

Yes. This.

"A problem is just a problem because we think of it that way. Stuff happens. If we don’t like the stuff, we label it a problem and try to jam the world back into the way it was going before. If we do like the stuff, we label it an opportunity and try to take advantage of it. The difference between a problem and an opportunity is what we do with it, not what it is to begin with." ~ Stever Robinson, The Get-It-Done Guy
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4 comments:

  1. SciFi DadMarch 4, 2011 at 10:58 AM

    Yep.

    Did you know that a standard engineering report has the following sections:

    Problem/Opportunity
    Options
    Conclusion/Recommendation

    For me, problems and opportunities are interchangeable.

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  2. DGBMarch 4, 2011 at 2:30 PM

    I will now call them problemtunities.

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  3. Jennefer March 8, 2011 at 5:37 AM

    I suppose the trouble is the label.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 21, 2011 at 10:59 AM

    Did you know that the Chinese (mandarin?) word for crisis is same as the word for opportunity?

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