Making space for wisdom

Seeing what's on the horizon at the moment is difficult, as mists of uncertainty swirl around us, combining to restrict our vision, and we find there are no longer any easy "solutions" to recovering it.

Not that long ago, pre-pandemic, there was an enormous supply of people who provided us with easy-to-use answers, templates and formulas - often government-funded and given catch names like 'Growth Accelerator." They provided psychological support to the decisions that would usually have been made anyway and gave them a veneer of professional respectability. They did no harm, sometimes helped a little, but did not change things for the long term, even as the mist was forming, even then.

Today, the consultants are as confused as the clients. Those stock answers no longer help, even a little and are more likely to harm if we turn to them hoping they will, like some form of magic incantation.

We are in a different place. We need to make space for wisdom.

Wisdom is one of those comfortable ide…