Weathering the Storm

The Calm

In the last thirty years, we have built up a huge consulting industry around leadership, coaching, engagement, persuasion, marketing and the rest.

Advising, not doing. Risk free expertise.

Whilst things were relatively stable, we could develop best practice, and neat models that could be applied without really having to understand them. They did a good enough job to warrant the cost, even though they rarely delivered sustainable changes at the level they promised. In the calm before the storm, they were good enough and provided evidence we were doing things.

With a preference for short term perspectives, all seemed well. Incremental change worked. It was nice whilst it lasted.

The Storm

Alan Moore tells me there's no such thing as bad weather, just unsuitable clothing.

That seems appropriate right now. There's a storm coming. Choose your weather pattern. Brexit. End of Furlough. Second wave Covid. And those are just our local issues. Don't mention climate change, or ecological diver…