What might become possible if we questioned what we have learned to accept?

I used to think that if you employed intelligent people, gave them a clear objective and paid them properly, an organisation ought to work reasonably well.

I have had plenty of opportunities to reconsider that view.

I have also spent years with professionals who came to me for help with their English, only to discover that they already had the words. What they lacked was the feeling that they were entitled to say them.

These things interest me. Why do we accept rules nobody can explain? Why does a job title continue to describe us long after we have outgrown it? How can everyone in a meeting know something is wrong, yet leave without mentioning it?

I write Letters, and shorter notes, to explore questions like these. Sometimes a story makes the point better than an argument. Sometimes I get halfway through writing and discover that the argument I started with will not survive its own example.

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Gerry