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What assumptions are we using to face our biggest challenges?

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One of the big premises we started this decade with shows clearly in the answers we’ve found to keep going despite the enormous adversity of the pandemic. Personally and professionally, those of us still on this earth have managed to make sense of where life is heading, even with the challenges that came our way. Somehow we’ve survived and found answers. But what will secure the long term?

Great solutions to great challenges come from great answers to great questions. Today, companies and governments alike stand at a crossroads, trying to plan in an extremely complex environment where solutions seem almost impossible. We’re clearly seeing major changes that exceed our capabilities and our circles of influence.

Our survival instinct has shown itself so strongly that it’s plain to see how human beings find solutions to their challenges, especially in times of crisis. The innovation and agility we’ve needed over the last year have drawn on the different kinds of intelligence we know and that have always been with us.

What makes us human is the importance we place on the quality of our relationships. It’s precisely in our relationships that many of the answers to everything we need are found. Now more than ever, we can see how, despite the distances and barriers we’ve imposed on ourselves for our own safety (working virtually, for example), we’ve found every possible way to carry on.

People, teams, companies, governments and every kind of organization need to trust our own nature for the answers we’re looking for. That nature also holds a big dose of faith, which we experience firsthand every time we picture a future result and trust that with effort, a clear purpose and dedication, we’ll get there.

Warm regards,

Rodrigo Baccaro

• P.S. This week’s VELA (what I was Watching, Listening to, Reading and Learning):
• What I was Watching: Screw the box. I’d seen a few videos on freediving, but the story behind this one made a deep impression on me and sparked more interest in the subject
  – What I was Listening to: Understanding Espresso. I discovered James Hoffmann through my friend and compadre Alberto. Hoffmann is a true coffee master, and this video series is fascinating if you want to enjoy a good cup
  – What I was Reading: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. A book I came back to by chance, at a good moment in my life to revisit several ideas I first found in it. Highly recommended
  – What I was Learning: A culture of Measurement and Feedback at Google. A short but very clear video on Google’s feedback culture

Author: Rodrigo Baccaro

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