Synchronization & World View

Seth Godin, one of the most followed and revered blogger world-wide, just wrote a very insightful post: probably not stupid. As always with Seth, it is thought provoking and it sticks in your mind for a while. The following few lines really resonate with me:

Every person makes decisions based on their worldview and the data at hand. [...] So, there are plenty of times where a lack of information leads to a bad decision. Plenty of times where an out of sync worldview leads to an out of sync decision.

How true ! I spend most of my day trying to synchronize with expatriates – my clients. It is a painful process to go through, especially in this industry. Each of us has a different dream, expectation and objective. Some are afraid of investing, they prefer to wait for the markets to stabilize, others were burnt in the past and prefer to do everything themselves, and the remaining simply don’t know what they want – they did not think about it before.

At the end of the day, I usually provide the data at hand. People come with their world-view and my job is to adapt so that I find solutions which suit them, to achieve the right decision, a synchronized decision.

Not an easy task. But when, after contacting dozens, sometimes hundreds, of contacts by phone, meeting or networking I synchronize with one expat and help help him/her with the right solution for him/her – I feel right.

Synchronization is bliss