You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist.
Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
Genius is patience.
The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.