All my worst leadership moments were when I was over-stressed, hurried, depressed or angry. My most effective moments were when the future was the person I brought into the room.
Author: Patrick Mayfield
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What Kind of Hope?
I may have got it wrong about aiming for resilient hope. There’s something better. And we need it now.
Walter & His Dreams Young Walter was born into this world as part of the elite. He was drilled in his family lineage and was taught how to steward the family fortune. He would go into another career, though, but his world view and life skills would travel with him. Walter found favour with the […]
Why is a 90-day review of intrinsic value? Maybe there is a better cycle for you. There is for me.
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Your Irreplaceable Mind
Will my job be replaced by AI? This is a valid question at this point in the history of humankind. What, then, is the irreplaceable career?
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Backwards Thinking
I like history… because it’s happened. Clarissa Dickson Wright Plans look forward. Reviews look backward. What’s happened has happened. In our culture of the urgent, we are apt to say, Forget it. Let’s move on. Today and tomorrow are more important. However, is that really true? Is it even wise? Those who cannot remember the past […]
One of my subscribers read my Roadworks article and she was interested in my explanation of this statement I made: “Online training is good in itself, but it really is not what I am called to do in this season.”. Thank you, Cathie. It does deserve a fuller explanation. What’s Wrong with Online Training? There is […]
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The Sun Does Shine
When the video of George Floyd’s death went viral, sparking protests, marches and the BLM movement across the West, my dear friend, Jamie Lee, recommended a book by Anthony Ray Hinton, called The Sun Does Shine. It tells the story of a young man in Alabama who was wrongfully arrested and convicted of a series […]
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Friends… Near & Far
Lockdown has had a surprising effect in encouraging new relationships and allowing others to lapse. What is this telling me?
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Roadworks
Roadworks have been completed during lockdown, when traffic volumes were lower. Is this a clue to how we have taken this constraint and turned it into an opportunity?