Ready-Aim-Fire Problem Solving

"Understanding your personal style is an essential first step in improving your decision making and problem solving activity."

"Individually, they may drive us mad, but put them together in a team, and they can achieve high performance."

"As leaders, it is our responsibility to set an example and 'walk the talk'."

"Innovation can be overdone; what may be needed is a balance between looking for improvements and realising the benefits from the improvement before changing the practice again."

"Once the solution or strategy is identified, then go into action?Fire."

"An idea by itself has limited value; only by applying the idea to a problem, situation or opportunity does it gain value and become an innovation."

"Allowing people to make mistakes without fear of retribution is seen to be the way to question the status quo and shake organisations into the new economic reality."

"In an action-oriented organisation, there is not time to analyse the process and see what is wrong?the reaction is to jump into action and treat the effect, not the cause."

"Creating possible solutions and alternatives come from the use of a number of creative techniques such as brainstorming, morphological analysis, making collages and lateral thinking."

"Before making an attempt to solve a problem, a common understanding needs to be developed, with a collective insight and view as to the factors involved."

"Establish your anchor in the future and pull on the chain to get you there as quickly as possible."

"These skills and processes are often linked together under the title 'Project Management' and have been closely guarded by the professional engineers and project management specialists as their personal domain and source of power."