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Do You ‘Logic’ Your Way to Understanding?
How to make sense of big ideas.
What’s Your Go-To Way of Making Sense?
If you like to ‘think’ your way to understanding, I totally get it. Me too. Or at least, me sometimes, and much less than before.
I have a background in economics and policy, and that can be a signal to certain clients that I understand the landscape they’re involved in, which I do-I love to play with the near and the far, the possibilities and the routes to get there. I don’t find myself limited by what’s at the end of the garden and it was exciting to be involved, every day, in things I thought would make the world better.
And, for the rest of us, even if we’re not immersed in the ‘big stuff’, we can be attempting to ‘make sense’ of the challenges and complexities around us.
But what made me successful in that world wasn’t always the analytical stuff. I came to see a long time ago that the leverage isn’t always where I think it is, and change happens in the least likely places with the smallest of shifts. It sent me on a whole new journey, but that’s a story for another day…
What I do know with these analytically-oriented clients, and in fact any client, is that I can most support them in developing their own navigational skills, and that’s sometimes…
