You Know it.

In many cultures we tend to pretend that we don't know. I have just had a pretty cool wakeup call on that note.

A colleague of mine in management has for some 6 months or so, been doing things as my co-director where I "simply did not believe it".

When it became clear, I used words such that "I am maybe a bit na?ve". Until the point where one of my good friends, Lise H?jer, made me aware that I am pretending that I didn't know it, while in fact, I knew into the little nitty gritty detail what he was doing.

What became clear to me was, that I had gotten myself into excusing people, by pretending that I did not see. Its like wearing dark sunglasses - not to protect against the sun - but to pretend that the sun is not shining.

It is not that I think my colleague should be punished, or anything - no - but I gave him leeway to continue making his errors, by pretending that I did not see what he did.

So. I knew. I really knew what was going on.

I took the consequence of the new won clarity, I took up the matter directly with my colleague directors, and decided that I will stop working with the director in question. I addressed the issue directly, with clarity and necessary detail, and naturally now I had to take the consequence and have those necessary conversations, which I had protected myself from, by mounting these huge sunglasses preventing myself from "seeing" the facts, even though I had seen them, and pretending that I was na?ve.

I wish you success, removing your own sunglasses, and seeing everything the way it is, and taking the consequence of the same.