What We Can Learn from The Problem with Horses

Leaders are often more eager to fit a waste bucket to the back of the horse than to seek a solution that will reform a defective system. Rather than limiting themselves to a rapid solution provided by experts, decision makers should leverage the five key points. They should look outside of the core problem domain for potential solutions, extrapolate the impacts of emerging inventions, weigh the extended benefits of trickle-down effects, and even postpone action until a viable technology emerges.