… is that occasionally you get requests like this one …
“Can you create a strategic flowchart using pictures instead of words incase countries don’t understand what we’re trying to say?”
Hmmmmn, so I’ve now got to turn a strategy document into a ‘Read It With Mother’ type-of-book! That’s the rest of the day written off then!
To be honest, while this sort of thing is a pain, it’s incredibly important because people tend to get fixated on individual words rather than how they work in the context of the overall idea – so before you know it, you can end up being sucked into huge, debilitating debates rather than getting on with the task in hand.
Saying all that – while this is going to take me bloody hours, I wouldn’t have it any other way because Asia is way more challenging, interesting and rewarding than if I was stuck back in an office in London / NYC or Sydney.
At least that’s what I keep telling myself 🙂