In problem solving you often want to find the root cause. One technique for doing that is using the "5 Whys" technique. This is a technique from lean manufacturing from toyota in the 70s, and more relevant to myself agile software development. However the technique is applicable everywhere....ask a question for which you want to find the root cause. Then keeping asking why till a root cause comes out. Sometimes you have to be a little smart in the "why" question but its mostly striaghtforward you may also need to ask "what caused that problem". Sometimes you may require more than 5 question, sometimes maybe less.
Anyways, one problem I see all the time is one of self worth. I'd be curiuos if people can introspectively do the 5 whys and find the root cause. And if not, what is the hardest part of the self reflection.
So :-
If you have no/little self worth, 5 whys?
If you have strong sense of self worth, 5 whys?
If people do this, and put their thinking on the comment system then i'll share my thoughts :-)
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
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