Finding Your Writing Process
If you are a leader, you are in the communication business. That means, you need a process for putting thoughts into writing. Here's mine.
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Gary Mayes
Sep 18, 2020
Healthy Leaders Admit —They Don’t Know
The book of Job is a book of questions. Uncomfortable, hairy, galaxy-sized questions. I counted them all one time. Depending on how you...
Gary Mayes
Sep 12, 2020
360 Degree Mentoring and How to Find It
A BIG CLUE: The answer is not... Yoda... Gandalf… Dumbledore… Jiminy Cricket... all fictional superheroes of the mentoring world. The...
Gary Mayes
Aug 7, 2020
Scientific Breakthrough:: BANTER MATTERS
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” The same goes for team work. All work and no play is what machines do. Relational life...
Gary Mayes
Aug 5, 2020
Great Teams Choose Tension
Great leaders and great teams learn to embrace creative tension and reject the simplistic solutions of “either/or thinking.” One constant...
Gary Mayes
Jul 28, 2020
The New Rules of Communication :: Rule #3 — “The Pie in the Face”
Ever get cranky because people don’t read your emails? What's wrong with people? How can they be so rude? Well, you’re in good company. I...
Gary Mayes
Jul 24, 2020
The New Rules of Communication :: Rule #2 — Write for People Who Scan
We don’t read the way we used to. We don’t open an email or a document and just start reading. We scan before or even instead of reading....
Gary Mayes
Jul 21, 2020
The New Rules of Communication :: Rule #1 = Focus on One Thing
The tools we have to facilitate effective communication couldn’t be any easier, however, the challenges of effective communication...
Gary Mayes
Jul 14, 2020
How to Navigate a Season of Diminished Capacity
Leaders talk about reality. They name things as they are and they help others do the same. Therefore, it’s time we admit something to...
Gary Mayes
Jul 7, 2020
Defying the Gravity of a Crisis
I know, I know. “Defying Gravity,” sounds a little melodramatic. It’s like the booming voice of a circus barker, “Come one, come all....
Gary Mayes
Jun 7, 2020
Healthy Leaders Name Reality
As one of my favorite people says, "Leaders frame reality." They refuse to indulge in soft language about a fanciful future with no...
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