I don’t mean are you causing the problem: I mean are you engaged with it; or engaged with the people who are dealing with it?
If not, you probably won’t have much impact.
If you’re dissociated from the problem or the people, chances are you won’t be able to influence what happens, however insightful your thinking is.
To be able to influence, we need to be in relationship with the people who are involved; to be connected. We probably need to be engaged with the problem itself too.
Can we be both engaged in the system and able to stand back and maintain perspective, if not simultaneously, then at least sequentially?
Do you have a method for doing that?
Are you associated or disassociated with the problems you care about? It does make a difference.