I thought about yr blog entry carefully and finally decided that I do not belong to the 'some people' group as there is not always one answer to everything. I believe the answer is just decision that you or the person who was looking for the answer that you were involved with, believes it is the right one at the time. Having the luxury of time and thinking/discussing all possibilities and avenues before coming to a conclusion on what might fit best, helps no end. Sometimes however, you don't have the luxury of time, resources and planning and a conclusion could be hastily agreed, perhaps even pressured upon you. I think it all depends on who is involved and what you are trying to achieve. I believe in a working environment, the right answer, solution or resolution is the one my boss/client agrees with or approves of. Whether the decision is right ... remains to be seen! That's why we test/control to ensure we learn from our findings, share and then incorporate into future campaigns and careers. The same principal applies in your personal life. You make individual decisions based on your experience, ethics, life stage etc. Personally, I always look at alternatives and the 'what if' scenarios as I am always open to the possibility that I might make the wrong 'choice'. I make my own life choices and have to live with those. I happily work client side in a tiered management environment. I will never be an MD for a blue chip company but I am MD of my own company and plan to make my millions :-) My head will never fall should the answer/solution we provided the client, fail to deliver. It would be a tough world, if someone did .. but sometimes it happens. My head will also never fall should the answer/solution I make for my company be wrong. I'll accept that I ballsed up, find out why, survey the damage and pick myself up again.

Normally, I would call that 'some people' in two ways: 'narrow people' or 'people which have principles'. Could we think of a person having the principle of looking for alternatives? Or, could we think of a person who doesn’t look for alternatives as a wide common-sense person? But, it is generalizing my point of view. In spite of this, I would prefer to think that the uniqueness of a solution comes from the nature of the problem we are faced to. Maybe, neither the problem nor the solution are varied. It is just the way you solve the problem which is different from one to other person. Again, it depends on the nature of the problem. To my mind, uniqueness is not applicable to personal life, philosophy and religion. On the other hand, it fits perfectly with technical problems, science evolution and other aspects of our 'knowledge's life'. Though, not to social sciences which need another endless post. In this topic, I agree with Lesly. He says: 'I believe in a working environment, the right answer, solution or resolution is the one my boss/client agrees with or approves of'. I don't agree with him in that 'all depends on who is involved'. At last, the discussion brings to my mind the post about 'simplicity of solutions'. I believe that the optimal way of solving a problem is the simplest way of solving it. Greetings from a cloudy day in Buenos Aires (before an English exam… )