On Stage
A large part of what I do with clients involves me standing back and noticing what's going on for them, internally and externally in areas that are hard to monitor with data, but which can be sensed.
A large part of my "off site" load is reading and monitoring trends (I am a recent convert to Blinkist and Feedly which are great tools for filtering what to pay attention to)
What I am noticing is that the vast majority of articles, and good percentage of books that are written seem to be written for actors on a corporate stage. Full of different aspects of how to play your part better, find better "agents", get noticed.
Person as role holder on a business stage in some form of soap opera.
I've often wondered what happens to actors in soap operas who have been playing a role for many years. Who goes home at night - the person, or the part? When do they notice?
I think that the most important task we have while we're here is to be open to our calling and ready to listen to it whe…