Highlight Problems, Avoid Solutions

It’s wayyy easier to provide solutions than to help folks find their own solutions. What are the consequences of this observation?

For consultants, trainers, pseudo-coaches and others whose income depends on selling “solutions”?
For folks seeking long-term, permanent solutions to their problems?
For folks who choose to hire consultants or other experts to solve their problems for them?
For folks habituated to delegating the finding of solutions to their problems to others?

Voltaire asks us a rhetorical question:

“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”

~ Voltaire

I’ll not be offering any solutions to this conundrum. I am available help you along the path of finding your own.Do get in touch!

#IANAC (I am not a consultant).

– Bob

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