We get a poor view with our noses to the grindstone.

It seems to me that as we gather more and more detailed data, the poorer we become at just observing. Along the way, we become attentionally blind. We do not see what's around us.

I have a colleague who cannot make a group meeting today because he has a client who celebrates Beltane. It is an ancient Gaelic festival that celebrates a point halfway between the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. It originated in a time before clocks when we measured time not mechanically but by observing what was happening around us—the state of nature, growth, and seasons, and knowing more acutely than we do now that we are part of that. I think that's a great client, and one who maybe has vision of a different order of magnitude to most businesses.

There are important lessons to be re-learned.

An Oak tree spends 300 years growing, three hundred years thriving, and three hundred years dying. In its first phase, it takes more than it gives back from its ecosystem. In the second phase, it grows and seeds, …