Why “Anisotropic Road?”
Isotropic = where it is what it is, no matter how you look at it.
Anisotropic = where how you look at it makes all the difference.
Fasten your seatbelts: not everything is what it seems on the anisotropic road.
A life long sensitivity to injustice drives me. Being misunderstood, misjudged, remains a painful inhibitor to exploration: yet, I forge on to illuminate meaning and intent for best effect.
Blessed and cursed with a capacity to see far down the horizon, I cannot help but see the challenges that can derail a dream. Pointing these out can look like obstacles to achieving the end goal. In fact, I aim for the more sustainable win.
People react to what they see. But the slice of a person revealed through character limited posts or time limited interactions is not the whole story. Even longer pieces may be part of wrestling with complexity well before any conclusion to be reached. Still, people react, presuming affiliations that may be far off base and leaping to judgements to unfortunate effect. Leap not. Engage. Avoid ad hominem retorts that, in truth, reveal more about you, than me. Chill. Let’s talk.
I have adopted a range of personae. Each is suited to its context. As a leader with responsibilities beyond myself, that has seemed necessary to mitigate risk that ideas explored in one area may negatively affect achievements in another, less for myself than for those with whom I collaborate.
That’s all well and good, but in these perilous times when connecting the dots is critical, segmenting my thinking in this way leads to writing so diffused as to be invisible. It’s a frustrating conundrum.
Engaging ideas remains a driving force for me. A lifelong obsession with probing the systems we people create within and among our groupings has a equipped me for strategy and tactics—in my leadership for others if not so much for myself. I aim to connect those dots as a foundation for positive outcomes.
It’s time to open the door, throw off my cloak of invisibility (or at least let it slip a bit) and step out onto the anisotropic road.
Your company is welcome on the journey.
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