About

These posts serve multiple purposes, chiefly they reduce the itch that arises from not knowing.

Yes, this blog is where I can freely express different ideas,or react to situations and stimuli.  It’s also my conscience consciously pushing through and past first impulses. These posts intentionally reflect my learning journeys. They record my thoughts from examining, questioning, and reconsidering ideas, conceptions, and expectations—the bits that naturally pop, the automatic responses.

The URL for this Blog is street speak. Un-Dimed meaning to get off the dime, or treadmill of working for a living. The visible titel, Adjusting sensibilities I hope clarifies my intention.  I invite my readers to join me in pausing and looking a little closer at the paradigms that propel us, that keep us assuming and not noticing, listening or thinking more deeply. Note, these postings are my analysis and my shapeshifting indulgent look, in which I reflect and try to feel situations or ideas from different perspectives

First and foremost, I am a learner with a natural attraction to big ideas and complex problems, and only occasionally a blogger.  I’m also a tinkerer, a curious, willing, and persistent explorer that chases down rabbit holes and forgets the original investigative intent.  I admit sometimes it’s to be precise, and accurate and sometimes to grow my understanding, establish links to what I think I know, or worse think I can solve by tracking back to root causes and believing they link or are responsible for later effects.

By profession, I’m not a lawyer but share some of the traits of a justice advocate.  My appreciation of probability required me to overcome my own anxiety and fear, which has allowed me to develop technical data analysis skills. After working in multiple economic sectors,  I founded Arkay Solutions LTD my independent consulting practice. The practice engages with clients to develop or hone a business strategy, provides supportive strategic research and, enable other individuals’ leadership and learning.

By Day, I help Business leaders gain and retain strategic momentum using data consistently and effectively. Activities range from teaching/training to hands-on redesign and implementation of systems to collect, analyze and report metrics for decision support and assure, not just measure performance.

In 2019, I adjusted my thinking and refocused my professional activities. Coincident with the approach of the Jewish New Year, I committed to posting more frequently and in shorter formats.

I realized that the blog is my thinking sandbox. In the past, every published post was a labor of life and also a victim of my own high standards. Thus it took multiple drafts and edits before I finally published. It also meant that significantly more posts reside in the drafts folder waiting for time or information or something. I lost the benefit of an open sandbox and engagement.

Going forward longer form posts will be reserved for the other blogs, and undimed the spot where I hope you dear reader, will follow along and share your reactions  to my singular, rougher draft thought,

Notie, the archive contains longer posts where some ideas I worked out more completely.  This blog is after all practice. It affords me the opportunity to improve my research and presentation skills,  and demonstrate my capabilities in working through complex ideas and communicating them more simply. In choosing a conversational style, I actively welcome readers to join me on my journeys in exploring alternative perspectives.  If you too find yourself pausing, and readjusting your positions– physically and or figuratively, I hope you’ll share that experience back.

I hope you will feel inspired to look a little closer, change the level of sight–crouch sometimes, don’t just stand or sit…take stock of the work as a bird does walking along the ground or when flying over the trees.

These posts complement other blogs I write or contribute:

• Notes on Strategic Management Practices summarizes and synthesizes notes from live, monthly professional peer discussions I led on behalf of Chicago Booth Alumni from 2011-2021. As the discussion facilitator, I curate in advance a few articles around a topic related to Business Strategy, its Management, Practices, and Issues. The discussion limits attendance to  20 and is open to anyone.
• Framestretching, began as the voice of a small consulting group I formed with Jonathan Denham and David Perlmutter. Our brief collaboration as E3-Ecubed advanced the organization’s innovation activities. I continue to post to this site which focuses on cases where leadership shifts its perception will trigger new insights and lead to innovation within the organization.
• Cminds.net, Another start-up venture that devised an online meeting place where people with problem-solving skills endeavored to solve complex, aka wicked problems. The collaborative problem-solving community offered an online global forum where members could engage at their convenience, and openly contribute input in multiple formats but also participate in a structured problem-solving approach. As one of three founders, these posts relate to social engagement, learning, collaboration and, problem-solving.
•  Balancing on the Edge, my first blog, all posts are now imported here, and can be found in the archive.

Through clarity of voice and thoughtful analysis, I hope to provoke direct actions and response.  Every day living requires some adjustment in our thinking, whether the detour is conscious or not, temporary or permanent, this is an opportunity to keep track of my own changes.

These records of my wading through life and its uncertainty also mark my own capacity to change, some consciously and others randomly.

As a practitioner of Appreciative Inquiry, feedback is welcome as long as it is productive vs combative.  Fine to be critical of ideas but also be kind when it comes to issues of the heart–and emotions. I am conscious of my own blind spots and know I can’t see what you do. Please be thoughtful, Instructive, or constructive in your comments especially if you want your critique to be understood.  Thanks for reading–

Rachel Kaberon

September 2019