Terrific Mentors

Terrific Mentors help clients find their answers in life and business. We have a view, always. Do you? Share your view by writing to [email protected]

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Dr Shannon Sauer-Zavaia, for whose work and thinking I have the greatest admiration, has written a challenging piece on “The Myth of Work-Life Balance” (‘Why you’re still struggling to “have it all” ‘).

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Everyone you meet is a gatekeeper in your life. Some are kindly and welcoming;  some, pompous and off-putting. Most can be educational; a few can be lethal. Several of you asked me ‘who were your best gatekeepers?’

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These words from a 50-years-ago pop song reverberate through the minds of many people – young and searching, old and confined by physical, mental or financial constraints. Or middle-aged, beginning to recognise their own mortality.

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Be quite clear, I wish Andy Burnham every success in his role as British Prime Minister. What I have read about him, what he has achieved in Manchester, and the sometimes rather neglected North of the UK, is encouraging.

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What is leadership? You may well ask. Good leadership is a quiet, steady and confident ‘getting-on-with-it’ and letting those who report to you get-on-with-it-too. You don’t hear much about it because the exponents of it don’t talk much.

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You can’t predict the future, nor can I. And yet our work is and always has been about how well we can do so. The Musk-type risk-takers either win or lose. Some manage to do both at the same time.

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These two erudite commentators on the events playing out in Britain must be thanked for having hit two of three nails on the head. There is however a further nail: ‘What is hope?’ Hope is a persevering optimism about what might happen.

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We all like to look good, the young to demonstrate their maturity and eligibility, the not-so-young to prove they are still attractive – and eligible.

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Between two and three million years ago the human brain began to develop significantly. We started making and using primitive tools in order to get organised. The Stone Age had started. Homo Erectus developed over the next two million years.

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There’s plenty of creativity in the technological world. Some people are beginning to say ‘too much’. The speed of innovation is such that understanding how to control new inventions is becoming impossible.

REad on: https://t.co/Amp5ZPmzt8

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You’ll notice increasing articles about the stormy times the planet is facing. For a short, maybe even blissful, period we thought the chaos was all being caused by Mr Trump.

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If you don’t have a Future Creative Group (FCG) for your firm please consider doing so. Not for a boring plod through recent results.

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The most powerful example of conscience I heard came from a roof thatcher called Alf Tuck. He rethatched a cottage in Dorset, England in 1946.

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A religion is a search for truth beyond proof. When its objective is to help all humans to decently handle the vicissitudes of life it is valuable.

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The Post-Trump era is approaching. Things will never be the same as they were before. Unless we plan rigorously now they will get worse.

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On 18th September 1939 I celebrated my seventh birthday. Two weeks earlier Germany invaded Poland and WWII was declared.

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A useful way of looking at education, both historically and currently, is to see the three distinct but overlapping stages of it: (1) What we have (2) What we need (3) What we want.

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British politics is in a state of tactical tinkering. It is sad for a British citizen to need to say this but, at the risk of inducing a rant, it must be said.

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Competition has played a big part in humanity’s successful development. The challenge of winning, whether to achieve superior speed or to improve the output of the elements, makes a driving stimulus no other living creature has mastered.

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