Where are the iconoclasts?

Thinkout out loud in public can be a dangerous game.

When did you last have a work conversation that didn't involve taking sides? And when it did, which side did you take - the safe, or the novel?

When I look at LinkedIn, and other social media, very little of what is expressed there is both original and contentious. Rather, it is dominated by different versions of the already accepted. Not a lot of deviation from the mean. Not surprising when people are on there to been seen as employable or contractable. We need different conversations.

Right now we need new and uncomfortable ideas far more than noisily "regifting" acceptable ideas that have been around the block, and are beginning to look a little worn.

As we enter this strange, liminal space as we move out of the heavier restrictions of lockdown in the UK, whilst whole tranches of the rest of the world still wrestle with it, we need new ways of thinking and working.

To find them, we need conversations that do not involve taking sides, …