The Way The Most Successful People Turn Obstacles Into Assets Works Everywhere

I am currently a guinea pig.

More specifically, I am part of part of a small experiment—being conducted by an extremely well known medical school—to treat, and hopefully, cure diabetes.

I have a vested interested in the subject, obviously. Diabetes is prevalent on both sides of my family and my blood sugar has been too high ever since they have started to measure it.

But I have another reason to want to see how the study turns out.

We have argued from the beginning of this blog that our organizations often fall into the trap of applying a basic approach to trying to solve problems—like health care—by essentially following this pattern: plan, optimize, execute. 

Known as prediction reasoning, this way of thinking is based on the assumption that the future is going to closely resemble the past, and, to be fair, it can work wonderfully in certain predictable situations.

We do exactly the same thing in planning our careers.  We say “Here’s where I want to be in five years,” and then work backwards from there, trying to gain the skills, training, education and experience we think we are going to need.

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