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Efficiency comes at a price

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Richard Merrick
Apr 01, 2020
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We're being offered an adventure right now. Whether we like it or not.

Our "normal" world has dissolved and all of us, businesses, and individuals, find ourselves at a threshold. James Campbell, he of the hero's journey left us with a wonderful body of work, and a way of thinking about our journeys.

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We are at a threshold, and we have two options. To answer the call to adventure, or to refuse the call.

Setting off

There are many who have no choice other than to accept the call, either through necessity, because we have been displaced or our business in one of the roughly 20% of SME that, according to news report this morning the banks will not help, or because of conviction, like the hordes of volunteers and businesses that despite their own hardships are helping others.

The NHS, who despite being a vast bureaucracy, have come out dancing.

They are crossing the threshold, setting off into the unknown. They will face a wide range of challenges to which they will have to rise (…

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