Dealing With Emotional Pain

Following the horrifying events of September 11, 2001, I thought it would be appropriate for us to discuss how to deal with emotional pain. The kind of pain that sits in your heart and occasionally (sometimes without warning) breaks your heart just a little bit and you feel an overwhelming urge to cry. Many of us can relate to that as we have spent the last few weeks on the verge of tears many times, and if you are anything like me - you cried a lot.

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Solution or band-aid?

According to Tom Peters, who wrote In Search of Excellence, 86 per cent of all business problems can be solved by the people actually doing the job. Look at the number of times a consultant has been brought in, paid an extraordinary amount of money, only to come up with a solution the company could have come up with on its own?

The challenge we face is that we tend to assume we know what the problem is. And then we are quick to put a corporate 'band-aid' on these misdiagnosed problems. ...More of "Solution or band-aid? "