Marc Haine explores solutionizing, when leaders jump to fixes without understanding problems. Signs include offering solutions before listening and treating every issue as your personal project. Remedies: pause to ask clarifying questions, foster curiosity, delegate ownership, and use structured frameworks.
What was it?
Solutionizers.
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So, what signs should leaders look for to recognize that they might be falling into this trap of solutionizing?
Oh God, this is my favorite. So, one super easy one that we're all guilty of is when we're giving unsolicited advice. And so, they start solution-shanking you and giving you advice and their resources when you haven't even asked for them, right? Or seeing somebody struggle and instead of letting them work through the struggle, you jump in and save
