Why there are no leaders
Sitting next to E yesterday we both marvelled at how no one knows what is going on. We got started on a conversation about how there is no leadership, which led to some thoughts on how in local government no one person really has a complete understanding of what is going on and what we should do next, which led E to comment that it is the same in law and how he is surprised how no one really has a handle on what is going on in general much less enough to lead, and that led me to say I see the same thing in my industry (finance) and the industry I report on (media) where, for instance, I am now seeing a media paralysis that is causing everyone to just run in place. That led us to talk about the medical practice where it is readily apparent that the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.
All of this not knowing leads me to a certain comfort level because if no one really knows what they are doing and there are no clear cut ways to proceed other than protocol established by those who don’t really know what is going on then the world is our oyster to be freely interpreted and invented/imagined/reinvented and tailored to a brand new view.
Now that is what I’m talking about.