Often the successful of leaders has been indentified with the problem solving in their environment. Often the leader’s qualities, their skills and values are forgotten in the moment when they have fallen in one or another crucial situation. The leaders have been judged by history from their successful in problem solving and many times the rests of contributions have been minimized or maximized in function of their success in problem solving.
Like generals in battles the leaders need to demonstrate their full performance in the moment when a problem needs solutions. Unfortunately problem solving for some leaders is not the only; in the moment that the problem occurs seems to generate other problems and the leaders may be confronted with accumulated luck of knowledge, bad skills, behaviors, traits, and cooperation.
If a leader achieves to solve a problem, actually he has demonstrated in the same time his/her entire capacities in his/her entire work. Imagine that you are a leader and you should deal with the problem. The first thing to demonstrate is the optimism. The followers need direction and a pessimist attitude is the worse behavior during this moment. The leader must inspire the subordinates being resilient. The resilient personalities of leaders are more necessary than ever during the problem solving. The followers need courage to continue, and they “spy” every movement of leaders, every body language of them, every single note, and every short message.
Vini, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered ) these words by Julius Cesar thousand of years ago said to Roman Senate after his victory of King of Pontus must be in mind of every leader in every first step of the difficult situation that needs to be solved.
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Green hat: For developing creative solutions to problems. Criticism of ideas is not permitted. A variety of tools is available for encouraging creative thinking.
Blue hat: For process and control, typically worn by the person who is chairing the meeting who may need to redirect thinking into other ‘hats’ to together try on each of the ‘six thinking hats’ and to think of as many points as possible under each ‘hat’ before moving on”. (Bailey 2007)
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