97. On Strategic Thinking - When You Start Turning Over Rocks, You're Going to Find Worms with Prina Shah

When you start turning over rocks, you're going to find worms!

Then you need to be strategic with how to address said worms!

When you start turning over rocks, you're gonna find worms.

You are then therefore going to be the problem...

And, ideally, you should be the solution as well.

So in a workplace, often is the case that we will uncover issues.

And, oh my gosh, there will be issues and often people just go <pppft> to their manager with issues without providing any solutions.

So my recommendation to you is, or my question to you is when you uncover those rocks, you find those worms, are you going to be a part of the problem or are you going to be a part of the solution?

Every time I used to go to my manager with an issue, I'd also have a bit of a solution, at least one or two solutions in my pocket ready to say, hey, I thought about this strategically, and while we have this problem, here are the associated risks with it, here are the potential costs, and this is my solution therefore.

Try it and see how you go!