Elephant Question – How to Find Entrenched Problems

This is a great article on how to be a patient change agent:

• People don’t like hearing that entrenched problems are “totally fixable” (none of us do — not just those “other” people).
• To you, the fix is “common sense”, but to outsiders it may be counterintuitive.
• By definition, a problem that remains entrenched is not “totally fixable” (without a change in context, actors, intent, etc.) On paper it may be fixable. In context, it is not.

At a minimum, ask someone:

Can you describe an elephant in the room that I will quickly encounter, will think is totally fixable, but will be wrong? Why is the status quo difficult to change?

–Hacker Noon