A Note From Sarah
I've been thinking about how loud a quiet decision can be.
Not the ones you agonise over on a whiteboard, the other kind. Every column adds up, the logic is sound, and still something in you won't sign. We're taught to override that feeling. Push through. Trust the plan. But the more of these conversations I have, the more I think that quiet resistance is often the smartest voice in the room.
That's the heart of this month's article, What Three Business Owners Taught Me About the Answers That Don't Show Up on a Spreadsheet. Christina, Charlie and Dawn each had the numbers on their side, a merger, a deal, a signed contract and each stopped because their body got there before their spreadsheet did. The data was never the problem. Hearing themselves over the noise was.
My podcast guest, Frank Fleming, calls this catching your blind spots. He went from commercial fishing to founding a software company, and what stayed with me is his belief that the best decisions are never made alone.
Which is what this month's reflection question reaches for: not is it finished? but what would it feel like to have done this well?
So it's no accident the book club fits. We're reading Listen by Kathryn Mannix, a book about the hardest kind of listening there is. Join us on Monday 13th October.
The answer is usually already in you. The work is getting quiet enough to hear it.
Thank you, as always, for being here.
