If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.  Brené Brown is a researcher who believed this to be true.  In our organisations we have many who hold to this maxim.  Yet, on another level, we know that there are things – messy, intangible things – that can’t be measured…at least not quantitatively.

How much thought do you give to the footprint you leave?  In your family?  Your circle of friends?  Your business or place of work?  Your community?  What about the footprint we leave as an organisation or a country? Ease of global travel and trade, whether actual travel by car or plane or virtual (via the internet), means that we leave our footprint in places we may not even think about.

I found this TED TALK on The Danger of a Single Story very thought provoking. I wonder what single stories we live with that give us myopic vision in our lives and our organisations?