Reflections 13th December

What's on my mind

Optimism.

Covid -19, and here in the UK the sheer incompetence of and paucity of thinking behind Brexit has given us a huge shock, and that shock is waking us up painfully and suddenly to the somnabulent path we have been on. We have gone on steadily and increasingly religiously in thrall to serving the idea of perpetual growth, shareholder value, and the supremacy of process, and now we are waking up to the fact that that way of working is broken beyond repair. Waking up may be painful, but it is still waking up.

Brexit may or may not prove to be a bad long term decision, but it does demand we reinvent our economy and ourselves. Covid-19 may have been unprecedented, but it has demanded that we rethink the way we work. Our economy was creaking like an old tree, and this storm has brought it down, but as in nature it creates the light for new growth.

One of the revelations for me over the last few months is the collateral damage of agendas and process. They have become th…