http://www.philipplomboy.com/mastermind-meeting-sneak-peek Awareness | Empowerment | Progress Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:44:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.philipplomboy.com/mastermind-meeting-sneak-peek/comment-page-1#comment-7 John Lindstrom Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:37:03 +0000 http://philipplomboy.com/?p=66#comment-7 This was an interesting variation on a problem solving technique I developed over the years. A potential client asked me to how I would solve a problem he had. I told him that the first thing I ask myself when confronted with a problem for which I had a small knowledge base was: "Who do I know that's an expert in this field?" Two people/companies came to mind immediately for his problem. The other nugget I gave him was that sometimes fixing what you already have is more expensive than starting over and I suspected that, in his case, that might be true. He hired my firm on the basis of this answer. Profit on the project was about $50,000. This was an interesting variation on a problem solving technique I developed over the years. A potential client asked me to how I would solve a problem he had. I told him that the first thing I ask myself when confronted with a problem for which I had a small knowledge base was: “Who do I know that’s an expert in this field?” Two people/companies came to mind immediately for his problem. The other nugget I gave him was that sometimes fixing what you already have is more expensive than starting over and I suspected that, in his case, that might be true. He hired my firm on the basis of this answer. Profit on the project was about $50,000.

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