Workarounds That Work by Russell Bishop

Author:Russell Bishop
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2011-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

THE INSANITY CALAMITY

We have all heard the definition of insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. One reason we see so much apparent insanity in day-to-day life could be traceable to people making decisions from a negative stance (away from something) rather than the more positive act of making choices toward desired outcomes.

Negative decision processes as described in scenarios 1 and 2 earlier in the chapter can lead to endless loops of “trying harder” coupled with defensiveness or the need to prove someone “right” by trying to force a previous “square peg” decision into a “round hole” issue. In scenario 1, everyone killed off the ideas on the table, and so the team was left with “business as usual.”

In scenario 2, the team selected option C because it was the only one left standing after A and B were assassinated by the process of de-ciding. If the team moves downstream and option C proves to be even more problematic than the other two, the team leader often goads the troops to try harder or get committed, desperate to pull off an unlikely success. But that’s only because other options have already been killed off—there’s nowhere left to turn.

Both scenarios 1 and 2 give way to differing versions of the insanity calamity—people trying to produce meaningful results from already failed options.

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