Do you ever find it difficult to make a colleague see a point of view that to you seems obvious? Do you ever struggle through rounds of contentious negotiations in which a “meeting of the minds” seems impossible?
It could be that you are expressing yourself in a way that makes perfect sense to you, but not to those who you are trying to communicate with. Often someone involved with in-house dispute or adversarial negotiation cannot see the same solutions that a person standing outside the situation can. Sometimes it is necessary to consider a problem from a different vantage point.