No more Busking.

Right now, it's very tempting to hide in plain sight. The current reality is none of us know what to do with any precision, and admitting to that in cultures of "accountability" and "performance" can be a high risk activity.

Many of the most capable people I have worked with have often turned up at work as a form of avatar of themselves, from the clothes they wear to the things they say in meetings. Positioning more than perspective. Avoiding criticism. It's as understandable as it is tragic and wasteful. It turns artists into buskers, and eveybody dips out.

Time was we could busk. Sing a passable rendition of a song somebody else had written, and move from place to place singing different songs to different audiences.

That has now become a high risk activity. In times like these, the people we work with want to hear our own work, not something we've picked up from a book,or a course, and brought back to work as unexamined truth. Nobody else sees the situation we are facing in the same w…