While weaving the car through endless roadworks on the school run this morning, Mrs H noticed a truck claiming to offer ‘Logistics Solutions’ or some similar marketing claim. It seems obvious enough that businesses would claim to offer solutions to something or other, but the word 'Solutions' seemed superfluous. A logistics outfit wouldn’t offer ‘Logistics Problems’.
Lots of businesses seem to offer 'solutions', but it occurred to me that I’ve never seen a claim to offer ‘Political Integrity Solutions’. Maybe there's no market for it. Another thought could be the division of public and private sectors via their approach to solutions.
Private. Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions.
Public. Don’t bring me solutions, bring me problems.
Private. Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions.
Public. Don’t bring me solutions, bring me problems.
6 comments:
Politicians don't do solutions. They start with resolutions, and end in dissolution.
Sam - and for some reason they do pledges rather than promises which also end in dissolution.
I once had a Chief Engineer whose often repeated comment was, " We don't have problems, we have opportunities".
Sir, we have a problem.
We don't have problems, we have solutions.
Sir, we have an opportunity.
That's better, what's the opportunity?
The opportunity to relocate our premises, the building is on fire.
Solutions? Sorry that should have read opportunities. It's an age thing.
DAD - it's the best way to look at problems, although in the land of bureaucracy the opportunities are not necessarily in the taxpayer's interests.
Andy - Do you have a risk assessment for the relocation process?
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