Giz has asked me to share my considerable minor talent, but enormous ego blogging about workplace psychology… Ok, here’s a DEEP one… Just peal the stickers already!

Giz has 2 posts about a passion of his… the 80’s wonder… the 6 sided widow maker… the best thing out of Russian since little black fish eggs on crackers… “The Cube”.

Ui,li,u,ri…. WHAT?… Patterns, memorization… Just peal the darn stickers! “It’s cheating”, I hear you squirming in your swivel chairs, wincing at ruining… “The Cube”. But think about it… Use the toy as a symbol of your problems and how people deal with them.

Totally different subject, but still in the same vein… watching some show tonite… “Wipeout”?… American style MXC… Some lady (I assume) flies out to California, signs  1,000 waivers, gets dressed in their silly tights/helmet.shin guards does an interview with the host… then when she is supposed to walk on this 6′ high beam while 2 slowly spinning arms try to push her off… she says (and I quote) “Uh- No way am I gonna get on that D*** thing!” then she quits. That’s the first way people deal with problems… Ignore the warning signs, their own lead-in behaviors, just say “nope, not doing this.” & fold.

Then there’s Giz…& my wife for that matter. Read books on the issue. Ask experts, tabulate data, form algorithms, analyze, prioritize, sanitize… then come to a conclusion. Takes longer… high rate of success IF you get to a final solution. How many times  do you  get stuck in a rut… Problem-data-solution1, more data, solution 2, 3, 4, ad nauseum. Stuck in a endless cycle… well, “endless” is a bit harsh.

JUST PEAL THE STICKERS OFF!

Sometimes you have to refocus on the the end product. SOMETIMES an elegant solution is great, but a simple one works just fine. It’s a thinking person’s job to figure out where the line is.

Oh… and make sure there’s some rubber cement handy… those darn stickers don’t want to stay on sometimes.