It's simply complex - OK?

One of the big benefits of having a 'language' that's common is that it gets everyone to agree. It’s truly the mechanism by which humans work. It makes things simple. Unless it doesn't of course.

You either love or hate this Ferrari. At what level do you appreciate it or loathe it? Do you see a revolutionary design, a piece of state of the art and passionate engineering – or an unnecessary and needless waste of effort? Why does it have such different meaning to different people? Obvious right? - We are all different, we are uniquely individual and we each see different things in everything.

It seems to me that getting to a simple and common agreement is often impossible. Should we try and where do we stop trying?

• Believing that their is a common appreciation of things is insane and dangerously ignores the subtlety of what is actually going on.
• Enforcing the law as if everything is agreed causes civil unrest is insane and dangerously ignores the subtlety of what is actually going on.  
  

Are we missing something here?

We enter into conflict or debate because our perspectives are so dissimilar - the definitions (or semantics) of the language we use vary to great extents between the users. We are what we have learned and become conditioned by. We are the sum of our experiences. In society this creates huge tension because governments have been so inept at understanding how to manage this truth - In business it can cause huge cost, risk and underperformance because not enough time is spent socializing the meaning of anything. This is why we have governance, standards and standards bodies to be the keeper of the keys. Blunt instruments. Why don’t we learn? If there were more discussion more people would learn, understand what is going on and perhaps contribute to just how things could be improved. Is that so complicated?

To ignore that things are really not how they appear is to ignore that we are human.

When collaborating and socializing to create common meaning – everything works - everyone can ‘team’ - we are aligned – harmony. The theory is that if we could truly collaborate, become more socially connected then bits of work would get done by different parts of the team and it would all come together as one. This applies to running a country as much as running a business. It’s called thinking and conversation – common sense. It’s a rare thing. Is that why we don’t do it? Does it all sound so hard? Too complex? Not simple enough? Imagine if Ferrari didn’t get it right – would you get on this thing?

What else can we do?

Interpretation happens in individuals heads.

In business and the enterprise the same is true. If you allow people to deeply engage in the defining or meaning of the standards then you can expect magic to occur from your biggest asset. Miracles in terms of performance. High energy and potential unleashed by those who would join your team. Don’t do it and learn to live with an underground movement of discontent, opposing parties and massive mediocrity.

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