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Richard Merrick
May 17, 2019
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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…

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