Fairy stories - not just for children
February 2024 ‘Some day you will be old enough To start reading fairy tales again’. I have never considered myself a ‘grown up’. Which is...
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Clark Ray
May 302 min read
This will hurt me more than it hurts you.
February 2024 "This is what is hardest: To close the open hand, because one loves." What is Nietzche talking about when he speaks of...
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Clark Ray
May 302 min read
Authenticity is overrated.
February 2024 Stop trying to be authentic. You already are. We're encouraged so often to be authentic these days, that it is no surprise...
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Clark Ray
May 302 min read
What is life, if not about goals?
February 2024 ‘It's your life. You don't know how long it's gonna last, but you know it doesn't end well.’ When Don Draper uttered those...
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Clark Ray
May 302 min read
Show, don't tell.
‘Show the readers everything. Tell them nothing’. The belief that suppressing our feelings is harmful has been around for a long time. So...
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Clark Ray
May 302 min read
Life calls the tune, we dance.
January 2024 Life calls the tune. We dance. For weeks after my recent motorcycle accident, I hovered, thanks to a plentiful supply of...
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Clark Ray
May 302 min read
Too many mind.
January 2024 "Mind sword. Mind people watching. Mind enemy." "Too many mind." It’s been 20 years since I sat, mouth agape, watching the...
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Clark Ray
May 302 min read
What do you do when you don't know what top do?
January 2024 What do you do when you don’t know what to do? You could ask someone who does. But, how do you know they know? America's...
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Clark Ray
May 301 min read
The truth will set you free
January 2024 Apparently, the truth will set us free. The question arises, then: Which truth is that? Nowadays, we all have our own...
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Clark Ray
May 303 min read
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
(This first went out as a post on Linkedin at the end of November 2023, about 4 weeks after the accident. I include it here simply as a...
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Clark Ray
Jun 16, 20232 min read
Resistance - the enemy of achievement.
You probably already know you are your own worst enemy. We all are. In his outstanding book: The War of Art, Steven Pressfield speaks of...
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Clark Ray
Jun 16, 20232 min read
Leadership Training - as useful as a fart in an elevator.
Most Leadership Training is unnecessary. Certainly, at anything below Senior Management level. This is spoken as someone who actively...
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Clark Ray
Jun 16, 20232 min read
It's all on you.
There's nothing worse for a business than a culture of blame. It sours relationships and encourages paranoia. And, whatever the issues,...
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Clark Ray
Jun 16, 20232 min read
Leaders are made, not born.
A few years ago I worked with a group of Managers. All worked on the shopfloor of a large, fast-paced site with high output but some...
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Clark Ray
Jun 16, 20231 min read
You're not a leader. And it's ok.
You’re almost certainly not a leader. And that’s ok. There is a plethora of (so called) expert advice around at the moment, telling us...
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Clark Ray
Jun 16, 20232 min read
Accountability - a two-way street.
A story I tell shopfloor staff when they express doubt over the benefits of High-Performance Teams or mini-businesses, whatever you want...
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Clark Ray
Jun 16, 20232 min read
There may be trouble ahead.
Troubled waters ahead. Ever since boats have been putting to the water, there have been rules for dealing with bad weather. Unwritten...
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Clark Ray
Jun 16, 20232 min read
Power is nothing without control
There are some startlingly clever people in business today. It’s both encouraging and baffling. Encouraging because, well… we need clever...
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Clark Ray
Aug 25, 20222 min read
"Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow."- Anthony Robbins
When it comes to dealing with problems, there are only really two skills necessary to get it right: Defining the problem correctly and...
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Clark Ray
Aug 25, 20222 min read
"A life without conflict is a life of solitude". Victoria L Adenson
Stop hiding from conflict. We live in a world that tries to hide the fact that life as a human is one of snot, blood, tears and sweat....
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