Perspective is a wonderful thing. In truth, I can only express my own perspective, my own feelings, and my own observations. Can these ever be truly objective? Can anyone's observations be truly objective? Why do we think and act the way we do?

Hopefully the below will help you to understand my motives, my reasons, and my hopes, in creating this site. Apologies up front that I jump around a little. A chronological recasting of my life would not bring us to the outcome I fear, or then again, maybe it would. It is all in the eye of the reader.

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In these last few years, from 2023, I was starting to realise that the situation I was in, and the impact it was having on me, reminded me of a time long ago. My work situation had me boxed in a corner, my future options seemed limited, and I was losing the ability to think clearly. Thankfully I realised this was almost identical to what happened when I first went to university (cue flashback).

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Before university I lived in a fishing town with population circa two thousand. I did well at school, to the point of realising that either my teachers knowledge, or the curriculum they were teaching, was limited. I excelled in the Army Cadet Force, teaching as a senior cadet instructor for two and a half years, before heading to university.

At university, in Glasgow, the world hit me, hard. I didn't know about my sensory issues then, and a lecture theatre could seat five hundred people, all rustling papers, coughing, talking etc. I tried, yet found that I could not go to lectures. I couldn't focus on the single lecturer at the front with all the distractions and noise.

At the same time I was trying to deal with this, other life events crashed in, with my father being made redundant (this was the last year of grants and the start of student loans which parents were expected to top-up). I also found out I have a half-sister who was six months older than my full sister. My world caved in and I had to see both a psychologist and a psychiatrist, neither of whom considered autism. How much awareness has changed.

Anyway, those feelings back then were the ones I had now. Something had to change.

So, while looking for my next challenge, I thought I would try this social/business exercise.

Can we upturn the current models of consultancy and provide an option whereby a consultant provides information and routes forward while challenging thinking without individual engagement?

Making the knowledge open to all, so that those without the resources can learn, and knowledge is accessible to small organisations and global giants alike?

Would people and organisations pay for knowledge and assistance, knowing that they are supporting those that cannot afford it too? After all, the differentiation between organisation is in 'how' they do work, more than the tools etc. they use to deliver. Or is it? Value can only be determined by the recipient, and the cost by the provider.

Some of this is founded in my belief that organisations are fundamentally the same, with a small aspect of differentiation grouping those in sectors, industries, and specific markets. I also believe that people tire of the money-centric view many organisations take. Money is a by-product of a good enterprise. We'll discuss all of this and more in the conversations section.

 

I hope you join me in the discussion, it is so much better when we learn together.​​