Many ways to skin a cat

Having never tried, of course, I wouldn’t know!  Today I was preparing for a business meeting which had the possibility of being a little difficult; it involved bringing together  a number of parties all with different needs and interests.  I had anticipated it foundering on the rocks of some of the ‘demands’ of the participants despite the fact that it appeared to me that there were wins for everyone if agreement was reached. 

I was called by one of the parties and had a meeting with one of the others, when a whole new way of looking  at this opened up and suddenly a rather neat, if somewhat different solution begun to present itself.  Obviously we won’t know till the meeting is held, but it is interesting that sometimes the solutions to our problem pops up in unexpected places, and of course, we can easily miss them if we always look in the same old places.

So if today you are wrestling with a problem, try looking somewhere new for your answers….

“Good questions outrank easy answers.”

“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem”  Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tags: answers, problems, questions, solutions

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