Deborah Mills-Scofield
has framed beautifully the challenge of our cultural habit of rushing
to results before enough thinking has gone into the data around the
problem.
Deb calls it Rushing to Discover. It's exactly right.
In my 8 years at PwC, years before and after with clients at universities, schools, entrepreneurs, and larger businesses, my goal is always to help them (more) comfortably spend time in unfamiliar territory, on observation before rushing to judgement. Without time in unfamiliar territory, you end up rearranging the same data points in different patterns.
This is worse than trying to innovate and failing: this will prevent innovation from happening. Ever.
Thanks, Deb - What a great way to sum up my favorite part of work.
Deb calls it Rushing to Discover. It's exactly right.
In my 8 years at PwC, years before and after with clients at universities, schools, entrepreneurs, and larger businesses, my goal is always to help them (more) comfortably spend time in unfamiliar territory, on observation before rushing to judgement. Without time in unfamiliar territory, you end up rearranging the same data points in different patterns.
This is worse than trying to innovate and failing: this will prevent innovation from happening. Ever.
Thanks, Deb - What a great way to sum up my favorite part of work.
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