What’s even more powerful than finding the perfect solution to your challenge…

As I look around, I see people everywhere scrabbling to find the perfect solution — the perfect new tech product, the perfect transport solution, the perfect job, the perfect home, the perfect partner…

We think there is ‘one thing’; the solution that’s going to solve a single problem every single time it comes up. We want to scale, we want to perfect our systems and structures.

If I could find ‘X’ I’d never have to think about that thing again.

And yet, the truth of life is that we’re never done. There’s no such thing as ‘perfect’ and there’s no such thing as ‘done’. Each of us, and the word around us is in perpetual motion.

I saw this very clearly with a client this week who was asking me about organisational structures and why it seems to be the case that we evolve to ever-more complex and top-heavy structures. he was seeing top-heavy where it looked like flat and agile was a better model, but the general pattern he was observing was that structures and systems evolve for out-dated problems.

We’re great at finding solutions to challenges in the world around us.

What we’re not so great at doing is realising that those solutions are often solving a problem that is already in the past…