Too many employees have also learned to use "it can't be done" to avoid difficult problem solving and continuous improvement assignments. This avoidance is fostered by bosses who accept that excuse out-of-hand with no supporting justification. And this creates the biggest cop out. They avoid the effort and miss out on the potential reward. Because it will be done. Some day. By somebody. A somebody who realizes that each passing day brings new experiences, new technologies, new ideas that move people down the road into a future where the problems of yesterday become the opportunities of today and the improvements of the future.
Commercial space travel is within reach. The flying car is here. Nanotechnology is creating materials that were inconceivable thirty years ago. The inventors, innovators, creators, problem solvers, enhancers and improvers know this. They stay alert for new things to help move things forward. The nay-sayers and negative thinkers cop out.
Our post today can be summed up in two examples. Nay-sayers think like Charles Duell, head of the U.S. Patent Office who declared "Everything that can be invented has been invented." He made his declaration in 1899!
Inventors, innovators, creators, problem solvers, enhancers and improvers think along these lines when it comes to something that most believe can't be done, such as time travel: "Don't believe anyone who tells you that humans will never have efficient technology for backward and forward time travel." (source: NOVA online)
About me: For 25 years, Dan Pelley has presented supervisory management development programs in Rhode Island (RI), Massachusetts (MA) and Connecticut (CT). He is the 2004 recipient of the Richard Fontaine Award for Teaching Excellence awarded by Quinebaug Valley Community College in Danielson, CT.
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