Are we nearly there yet?

For those of us interested in the nature of change, this is a fertile time.

It's a though a whole bevy (what a great collective noun!) of black swans have taken flight (when they become a wedge - another great metaphor) and are heading right for us.

Our individual and collective reactions vary, but in general we tend to be negative. We see them as a potential threat, and hope that somehow we can stop them arriving - as though where we are now is where we really want to be.

We'd actually like other people to take care of it for us, whether its climate change, technology change, our politics or Brexit.

The inconvenient truth is that this is a system. All of it. And we're part of that system. We have a duty to ourselves, and the communities we are part of not just to have a view, but to exercise it. We're hugely privileged to live in what is still a democracy, no matter how bent out of shape it may have become.

What is clear is that these swan are coming in to land, and it behooves us to be r…