Wendy Lynch, PhD has spent 40 years turning complex data into business decisions — and watching what happens when leaders don't. She writes Sensemaking from the deserts and mountains of the American West.
Over the last few weeks I oversaw teams doing several projects: an advanced Monte Carlo data simulation, an advertising video with six different scenes, a comprehensive health dashboard showing claims and absence outcomes, a detailed presentation about program evaluation, and several well-referenced research papers. But I have no employees.
A rushing river. New AI models every week. Terminology that multiplies faster than anyone can track. Headlines swinging from alarm to euphoria and back, sometimes within the same news cycle. And on each bank, people shouting: about jobs lost, about cancer cured, about democracy threatened, about productivity unlocked. The voices
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My favorite color is teal. Not blue. Not green. Teal — a color that can't make up its mind. I mention this because it tells you a lot about how I see the world. I rarely find insight at the extremes. It's usually hiding in the places