Have you ever delved into a different world?
I have! After 22 years of a financial services corporate world, and then going into self employment, I’d convinced myself that I had now “seen it all”. And we do, don’t we? Its so easy to convince ourselves that we know it all.
But last week I had to deliver a presentation. It was this presentation that resulted in me being two days late writing this blog post so I will apologise for that now.
The presentation was about legal structures of social enterprises. I’d no idea where to start. Fortunately there is so much information on the internet these days that I was able to pull together something meaningful. Then I trawled my network and found a couple of people in the business who could just check it over. Its been quite a steep learning curve for me but does show that there’s no real reason not to have an answer these days and has highlighted the importance of having a diverse network in business.
But its also been a bit of an eye opener for me. Social enterprise is a whole new world for me. Not only a world where people matter more but also one that is having to come to terms with the removal of funding and finding new ways to overcome their funding issues.
But what I really learned here was, how often do I step out of my world and into another one. This isn’t a comfort zone thing, this is actually about stepping into someone else’s world for a day. I’m certainly going to be looking at other opportunities to do this.
When have you stepped into a different world? Please share your thought here:
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