Robert’s Six Laws of Holes

Posted by Robert Merrill on August 8, 2011 under Process Improvement | Be the First to Comment

What do you do when you realize you’ve dug yourself a hole?

I’m talking about the kind of holes that we dig ourselves in business, or the kind of gigantic hole that we in the United States have dug ourselves.

1. Stop digging (Will Rogers). Doing whatever you’ve been doing, only with more fervor, is probably going to result in more hole.
2. Re-evaluate your thinking (Albert Einstein, Part I). We all have mental models of the world and the people who populate it. They’re essential approximations of reality because reality is too much for our little brains (or we’re just in denial). Read more of this article »