S.M.E.

Its been a while since I was involved in such a dense mediation.

What surprised me today was the energy it took just to follow the impervious techical discussion.

That effort left little time and space me for to do all the other things I was hired to do at the table and avoid slowing down the group.

Subject Matter Expertise is an old chestnut but its moved since the time I took the purely theoretical view that process guides trumped substance experts every time.

Our increasingly fastidious market sometimes insists we've been down that precise road before - in both lanes.