Intuition

So I get back from vacation and at first I pretend to work and then eventually start to do actual work and I got that funny feeling that the problems I've been asked to solve aren't actually the real problems.  Vacation does that to you. See by the time they get to me they've been "talked about" and a funny thing happens when a group passes a thought back and forth in a room:  it gets uniform.  Business problems become communication problems because well, those business problems are just too big to grapple with and here's my favorite:  "the client isn't asking for that they're asking for this".  So I says to the group, "yes, but" and the exhale and tell me they need to get to work which is what I was trying to do with them.  

So much of what we do is often not what we ought to be doing.   Which blurs the line between real work and pretend work.