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The problems and Interventions!

By Bamboo In The Wind

So many times, you solve problems only to create many more. Solving problems means providing intervention. You solve problems because you think your interventions will make a difference. What if new issues show up despite the intervention?

Then, that means you need to be equipped to solve the problem. Often that happens when your view of the problem is based on the quest for confirmatory bias. It comes from looking for patterns in the current situations in something you already know and have experienced. This creates a substantial blind spot and assumes that the situation warrants action.

This means what you saw and thought was amplified by your biases and turned into a truth requiring some action.

The action is likely flawed when this assumption is based on an incomplete understanding.

The remedy is the take a problem and look at it from all neighboring angles.

At work: think from the employee, peer, manager, company, partner, or customer perspective. In personal life: think from immediate and extended family, friends, colleagues, society's, and country's perspective 

Who will be impacted? How? What actions do you need to take? Are they necessary? What would happen if you did not act? 

And know the ramifications of your intervention. Is it improving the odds of benefits? Would the benefits outweigh the downsides? Would everyone be better off as a result of your action?

Interventions are not necessary. Interventions that enhance benefits are a no-brainer. Yet, there are places where intervention is best avoided. That is the only way to solve the problem, staring at you!

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