Reflections 6th September

My " thinking seat" at Doddington Hall near Lincoln

What I’ve noticed.

That people are beginning to make decisions for themselves.

We becomemore resilient, and antifragile even, the more decision making is distributed to where the action needs to take place. The military have known in for years, and utilities are gettin g it as they switch to sitrubuted networls to reduce the likelihood of power outages. Distributed authority links to its parts, and makes whatever decision is needed at the time.

We currently seem to be doing the opposite. Whether in education, or healthcare, or policing, we seem to react to challenge by bringing the power to the centre, into the hands of those furthest away from the action and often it seems with little experience or leadership capability.

The end result is perhaps inevitable. People are ignoring the centre.

I listened to a returning traveller on the radio this morning explaining in clear, cogent terms why he was not self isolating on his return from holida…