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NEW POST! Mark Mullaly | My Writing Year - 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/intert/mark-mullaly-my-writing-year-2020 As 2020 comes to a close, I take a look back at my writing for the year. It started slowly and awkwardly, and then managed a sustained level that I haven't actually accomplished in a while. Reviewing what I likedand what others spent time readingwas an interesting opportunity for reflection.

NEW POST! Mark Mullaly | Reflections on a Difficult Year - http://eepurl.com/hmeEU9 It has been a challenging year. For all of us. We have adapted, we have persevered, we have Zoomed and we have grieved. While there were a lot of challenges, there were a handful of positives as well. My take on the year I have had, and what I hope for next year.

NEW POST! Mark Mullaly | Make Choices - https://mailchi.mp/interthink/mark-mullaly-make-choices You can commit to a direction, have clarity of purpose and be focussed on following through. The universe is going to offer up an opportunity that you didn't expect, that might be tempting for any number of reasons. The question is what you do about that. Realizing your personal strategy is an endless cascade of choices and decisions. Opportunities are amongst the more significant choices you will face.

Mark Mullaly | Know Where You Are Going - https://mailchi.mp/in/mark-mullaly-know-where-you-are-going It's one thing to say that we should go deep, have intention and keep stretching ourselves. It is an altogether different thing to identify what the goal we should be moving towards might be. All too often, we have many of them. We also have well developed coping skills to hid behind that keep us largely where we are. That can change.

NEW POST! Mark Mullaly | Have Intention - https://mailchi.mp/interthink/mark-mullaly-have-intention Intention suggests both clarity of direction and commitment to move forward. The reality is often different. For all of what we intend, our actual efforts are often at odds. Ot doesn't have to be this way. Doing differently, though, requires acknowledgement of how we divert our attentions and what we can do instead.

NEW POST! Mark Mullaly | Eschew Simple - https://mailchi.mp/interthink/mark-mullaly-eschew-simple We crave simple. As a consequence, we avoid or try to minimize complexity, even when we know larger forces are at work. That's not just a conscious preference; our subconscious helps out a great deal with the mechanics of how that works. Simple, though, is often the wrong response. Although there can be value to be found in simplicity.

NEW POST! Mark Mullaly | Embrace Complexity - https://mailchi.mp/interthi/mark-mullaly-embrace-complexity We don't terribly like complexity. It's messy, it's awkward, it's difficult and it takes a lot of work to respond. Far easier to try and pretend that simple answers will do, and move on to something we can be more successful at. That doesn't really work for the problems we face today.

NEW POST! Mark Mullaly | Thinking Out Loud - http://eepurl.com/hgpawP I write a lot. That's obvious to pretty much anyone that knows me. Yet often, when I sit down, I have no idea where the writing will lead. That is largely on purpose and by design. It's the act of writing that allows us to actually learn.

NEW POST! Mark Mullaly | Walking the Razor's Edge - https://mailchi.mp/int/mark-mullaly-walking-the-razors-edge Managers love stretch goals. And yet most don't understand what they're are, how to use them or when they break. Worse, the organizations they most likely work for are the ones who least need to rely on them. Stretch goals work for people the same way. And they fall apart in the same way, also.

NEW POST! Mark Mullaly | Navigating A Not-Quite-Rational Planet - https://mailchi.mp//mark-mullaly-navigating-a-not-quite-ra We know that people are messy. Decisions aren't quite rational. There are levels of meaning. And things aren't always as they seem. So how do we make sense of things? And how do we find a path forward? Fortunately, there is a process we can follow. One that provides an essential guide to navigating organizational politics.