Where's the truth?
Simon Kenwright
Helping leaders and managers to transform performance and wellbeing.
There are a few vivid moments that I remember from school and this is one of them: I'm sat in a history lesson and we're learning about the propaganda of the second World War.
Our teacher shows us a photo of a girl and a boy playing together. To our youthful eyes, they are wearing slightly strange clothes but there is nothing particularly unusual about the image. And then we look at a second photo, a wider angle that shows the children aren't in fact playing but sat in a line of hundreds of other children surrounded by the squalid conditions of a concentration camp.
I remember clearly the shock at understanding how two images, versions of the same event, told very different stories.
Cast your mind back to last year and the way different images told very different stories of Trump's inauguration.
It's easy for us to believe images, numbers, quotes as absolute truth when in reality, they only tell us part of the story.
When we look to the great role models of the world, time and time again we hear them speak of the importance of listening to their inner voice, their intuition and yet do we place the same faith in ourselves?
We have to strike the balance; combining the data and information that we are able to gather but processing it through our human understanding to reveal the whole narrative.
We are going to be diving into this subject in our Breakfast of Change event next month, we'd love you to come and join the discussion.
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