Business Blog: Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

It’s the easiest thing in the world to take the long way around, isn’t it?

Have one more cup of coffee before you pick up the phone to make the call you think could be unpleasant.

Wait one more day to start your new workout routine.

Have a long meeting where everyone talks around the issue instead of a short one where people take direct responsibility.

Write a long, jargony sentence instead of a short, simple one.

Come up with a long, fluffy list of to-do’s instead of a short, hard list of top priorities.

Circumlocute endlessly instead of saying what you mean.

Proliferate paperwork instead of saying “I think this paperwork is hurting our business.”

Take something simple and make it complicated.

Multitask ad infinitum instead of doing one important thing.

Sound familiar? If so, you tell me:

What’s the straight line from here to there?
If you aren’t following it, what’s preventing you?

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• The power of naive questions.
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