Comments on: To Solve a Problem…Subtract Before You Add? https://madelaineweiss.com/to-solve-a-problemsubtract-before-you-add/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=to-solve-a-problemsubtract-before-you-add Board Certified Executive, Career, Life Coach, Licensed Psychotherapist Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:14:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Madelaine Weiss https://madelaineweiss.com/to-solve-a-problemsubtract-before-you-add/#comment-194 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:14:12 +0000 https://madelaineweiss.com/?p=3713#comment-194 In reply to Steven Nisenbaum.

Yeah but…real issue as i see it is that large institutions add and add and add without subtracting, until the bloat becomes so bad they have to do something all at once. what do yiu think of that?

]]> By: Steven Nisenbaum https://madelaineweiss.com/to-solve-a-problemsubtract-before-you-add/#comment-193 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:17:40 +0000 https://madelaineweiss.com/?p=3713#comment-193 Depends on your point of view and WHERE THE CHIPS FALL. Sometimes it is phony theater or self-rationalizing simply to look or feel better. For example, It used to be called “adding by subtracting” in striving for efficiency and demonstrated middle management “courage” when I worked for the State government. There was an unusually hurtful pattern of cruelly trimming and laying off some unsuspecting State workers (several times over the span of years) just before Christmas nearing the end of the calendar year. Each time it happened, we who were still left felt “survivor guilt” for escaping the latest round of what was touted as harsh swallowing a bitter pill necessary layoffs and work force cutbacks, but actually to deflect crfiticism and redeem the tough-mindedness good motives image of higher-ups trying to demonstrate taxpayer so-called reluctant savings determination managerial “courage” to the State Legislature just before submitting the proposed faux budget for the next upcoming year (i.e., nearing the final weeks of the bloated budget and blindly inefficiently mismanaged current calendar year (and coincidentally — or unconsciously sadistically (??) — harsh on the festivity and joys for some loyal low level workers during the family holiday season.

]]> By: Madelaine Weiss https://madelaineweiss.com/to-solve-a-problemsubtract-before-you-add/#comment-192 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:20:47 +0000 https://madelaineweiss.com/?p=3713#comment-192 Right! My client just this last hour told me that she was adding in a time management program, but read this and thought, “wait…is that going to help me or burden me more.” I love finding and sharing these little tidbits that can make such a difference. Thx for weighing in, Ana!

]]> By: Ana https://madelaineweiss.com/to-solve-a-problemsubtract-before-you-add/#comment-191 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:34:17 +0000 https://madelaineweiss.com/?p=3713#comment-191 I loved this concept Madelaine, “subtracting instead of adding!” I can think of so many opportunities, in all areas of my life to apply that too. Today I’m cleaning closet!

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