Standing under our own Bridges.

Roman Bridge, Moulton, UK

We live in an age of evidence dependency. Whatever we do, somebody wants evidence, and we have evidence-based education, practice, marketing - pretty much everything. The challenge, of course, is that evidence is, by definition, historic. There is no evidence of the future.

As I listened to the news this morning, it seemed full of programs being reversed, from the UK probation privatisation service (seven years of evidence) to deregulation of technology (a good ten years of evidence) to laissez-faire cryptocurrencies. In each case, either the perpetrators have long since left the scene (UK probation) or have become so well embedded and entangled that it will need far more than evidence to dislodge them (technology, crypto).

Evidence is not of much use when it comes to change. When it comes to doing something in response to emergent change, it needs something less clinical and much more visceral: Integrity, Leadership, Courage and Accountability. 

This morning, a …