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Welcome to this episode of The How We Business. This is Henry Lopez. And my co-host is Davidgan. David, welcome back on the show. Thanks for having me, Henry. We're glad we're recording this the day after the hurricane came rolling through the East Coast of Florida. Milton, right? Gosh, I don't even know the name, but I think it's Milton. Yeah, it's Milton. Yeah, we were fortunate. You know, we're on the East Coast. I'm on the East Coast about an hour north of Palm Beach, and so we got a couple of the outer bands. The scariest thing was several tornadoes that were spawned, but we were good. We didn't even lose power, so we were very fortunate. Yeah, good shape. So yeah. All right, well, we're going to talk about problem solving,

specifically a method that power, so we were very fortunate. Yeah, good shape. Yeah. All right, well, we're going to talk about

problem solving, specifically a method that actually you taught me, or a version of it anyway. There's

various versions of this method, but we'll call it the 131 problem solving method. And so David

are going to explore, David and I are going to explore this

method on this episode so you can use it for yourself. But I think even more importantly and

powerfully is to help your team develop this, use this as a way to empower them to make decisions,

which is so important. David and I talked about this on previous episodes,

how when we are, and we'll explore this, when we are the firefighter in chief, as I like to say,

the ultimate decision maker, that doesn't scale. And part of it is we tend to undermine our teams

on them being able to make decisions. And so this is a method

by which you can help them at least bring to you possible solutions. So that's what we're

going to talk about on this episode. You can find all of the Howa Business resources, including the

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All right. So as I mentioned, you and I did an episode a bit back, episode 530, complex decision making,

which is kind of related here, where we address, you know, how do you make complex decisions in a business?

This is now kind of a tool related to that, the 131 problem solving method.

And let me explain it and then we'll get into it, David.

But at a high level, the way I'd like to define it is the one three one problem solving method teaches ourselves, but more importantly, teaches team members to independently analyze

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