But Man is not made for defeat, he could be destroyed but not defeated.- O’Henry

We all have heard about an old and famous saying “Divide and Rule”. Apart from politics and defense, this rule is very much applicable in how we handle diffuclt problems or issues in our professional and personal lives.

For discussion lets talk about only the professional life so as to understand the concept of “Divide and Rule” and same would be applicable to personal life also. When ever we face some big challenges or issues we get bogged down with the sheer colossal nature of it. We jump on to the problem and without any strategy start looking for the random solutions. Somtimes this strategy works but often it doesn’t result in desired results, and leave us with a feeling of despair and lack of confidence.

In the above kind of situation the golden rule of “Divide and Rule” can help a lot which profess that we should divide our issue or problem at hand into smaller sets. Then tackle those small issues one by one. Lets take an example, your boss asked you to design a new product in one week of time and you don’t have any idea about the product. Instead of directly jumping and worrying about how product will be designed in just one week of time, divide this activity in smaller set of tasks. Such as, collecting information of what the product is about,getting its definitions etc, contacting a POC who has knowledge about the similar kind of product,writing down the requirements of users of the products etc.

Then tackle one or two tasks simultaneously and steadily complete the list of tasks. You will be amazed to see that in week’s time even if you are not able to do complete product modelling but you would be in better state to face people and let them know that you could complete the designs with in some more days. You will be more confident and sure about how and what will be delivered as product modelling.

This technique sounds simple but some times people ignore it while handling the issues when situation demands so. Next time when you face any issue, consciously make efforts to apply this rule and you will definitely get better results.