Boundaries

As we sense our way into a post-industrial era, the boundaries that used to keep us safe and secure seem to be dissolving.

Specialisms that defined us, from accountancy, through coaching and law to Yoga instructors (I couldn't find an occupation beginning with Z that worked), now all have much more permeable edges.

I know accountants who get their work primarily because of their coaching prowess. There's an interesting thread on LinkedIn around the nature and role of coaching and whether fees can remain a service disconnected from the resultant operational realities of clients. Lawyers who have to learn different ways of relating to clients when the profitable routine tasks are becoming automated, and Yoga instructors who are finding their ability to help clients think and see differently is opening up whole new fields of opportunity.

Boundaries are important. Without them, we have no identity, and if they are too strong and prevent us from absorbing new information, we find ourselves su…