The limits of speciality

I haven't blogged for ten days. Sometimes, life just happens. I'm surprised by how much I miss it - I hadn't realised how much it helps to get thoughts down and take the risk of publishing them - a sort of self appraisal.

What took me away was interesting - something I've been looking at for a while suddenly turned up, like London buses, three at once. Hardly scientific evidence, but nonetheless it gave me pause for thought.

One of the traditional key rules of Coaching is to help the client think through issues within their own resources. For the most part that works, but not last week for me or them.

All three clients displayed different versions of the same issues.

The limits of specialisation.

Three different areas - a technology business, a service business, and a healthcare business. The technology business is a tightly focused specialist, the service business a sector specialist and the Healthcare business an animal specialist. The problem? - an apparent lack "peripheral vision". The…