{"id":5557,"date":"2022-03-29T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2022-02-25T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T23:18:47","slug":"when-youre-stuck-hire-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/when-youre-stuck-hire-help\/","title":{"rendered":"When You&#8217;re Stuck &#8211; Hire Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Most of us are hesitant to admit that we don&#8217;t know how to do something. So we can waste a lot of time trying to learn how. But in business, that&#8217;s a foolish waste of time and money. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/673292398?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Hospitals-Improving\/dp\/1259641082\/\">Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Like many other people, I have a hard time asking for help. The other day, I was trying to work on something for our website: it was a process link to go out to the United Postal Service and get the Zip Plus 4 thing. I looked at all of their documentation. I thought I knew that it was working and I kept trying to make it work and it just wouldn&#8217;t work; it just kept coming back &#8220;boolean false.&#8221; Wrong answer, Jay. I thought, \u201cOkay, what am I going to do about this?\u201d <\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So, what did I do? Well, I talked myself into going out and finding somebody out there on the internet to look at the code, paid them a hundred bucks to do it. They turned it around in an hour. It&#8217;s working perfectly. That saves me dozens of hours of farting around with their stupid code that has terrible examples on it. <\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s one of the things I want you to think about: there are experts out there. If you&#8217;re struggling with data, maybe you should send it to us and see if we will (for a fee) will come in and see something you can&#8217;t see, and see it in a timely fashion so that you can get on with making results. <\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: When you&#8217;re stuck, hire help, right? \u201cHire when it hurts\u201d is what they always say. I usually get to the point where it hurts too much and then I hire somebody online to help me with whatever code gadget I need. <\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s create a hassle-free America; hassle-free healthcare. Let us know if we can help you with your data. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us are hesitant to admit that we don&rsquo;t know how to do something. So we can waste a lot of time trying to learn how. But in business, that&rsquo;s a foolish waste of time and money. 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