Head Of Nothing

That question arose today when I was talking to someone about the role. It’s a choice, it may not prove to be the right one, but in part this discussion, this experiment, will provide some information to enable others to determine whether the strategy was correctly or incorrectly formed. Of course, they will do so, with the benefit of twenty twenty hindsight after the event, but that’s OK too.

I thought for some time about the nature of a role that was truly without constraints and for a long time struggled to identify how such a role could be defined. Of course, I eventually realised that by trying to define such a role I was indeed constraining it.

A role without constraints is a role which does not define its purpose. A role without constraints does not require an individual to be working on strategy, or marketing, or sales, or product development, or operational improvement, or any other particular role within an organisation. Perhaps, from time to time, there would work on each, or some, of those roles but to predefine them would be to constrain them.

At that moment the concept of, and search for a “Head of Nothing” was born.