how to make challenge seeking a habit (1)

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How to make challenge-seeking a habit

• Get your team together and regularly brainstorm
  to uncover and assess all possible challenges
  that you may not yet have fully recognized and
  tackled. These challenges may already exist or
  they may be ones that you foresee arising in the
  near future.

2
Different Forms/Kinds of Challenges

• You notice it's becoming harder to hire
  engineers
• Your plant is running out of an essential raw
  material
• A key client seems to be having worsening cash
  flow problems
• Key staff are retiring with no successors in
  place
• A new competitor has just launched a
  lower-priced product that may take market share.

3
Be Careful

• Be aware that your eagerness to take on
  challenging tasks may have its down-Sides such as
  needing to work longer hours and the risk of
  becoming stressed. Do be careful about going
  overboard on this one and seeking out problems to
  solve just for the sake of it and being viewed as
  someone who finds a challenge hiding behind every
  corner and lurking under every stone. Your team
  may become angry that you're creating more work
  for them unnecessarily.

4
Plan To Tackle With Challenges

• Involve the relevant team members and
  colleagues to help you analyze and understand
  each issue and to decide how you'll tackle and
  solve it.
• Decide whether the challenge needs to be
  responded to now, at a later date or can even be
  ignored altogether
• Agree how you'll obtain the necessary
  resources and approvals to implement your plan of
  action.