How many times is your attention interrupted during the day? And how often are you able to truly focus?
Between messages, meeting invitations, colleagues arriving with questions and a constant stream of news and notifications, protecting our attention has become increasingly difficult. Today, one of the scarcest resources in leadership is not time, but attention.
Some films stay with us because of the time in our lives when we first watch them. Years later, we return to them only to discover that they are speaking to us from an entirely different place.
The Truman Show is one of those films — and this time, it became the focus of our sixth Between the Lines gathering.
A significant part of our lives unfolds through relationships. We try to understand them, sometimes struggle with them, and often wonder why certain patterns keep repeating. Yet relationships remain at the heart of how we learn about ourselves, others, and life itself.
This month, at Between the Lines Gatherings, we explored themes of passion, ambition, perseverance, violence, potential, and boundaries through the film Whiplash.
No, we are not a family.
This is a workplace, and we work together to earn a living.
No, management didn’t want it that way.
You wanted it that way.
No, events don’t increase motivation.
A conversation with my son recently led me to a question that has stayed with me ever since.
As he was considering university options and thinking about future career choices, we found ourselves discussing one of life’s most important decisions: what kind of work we want to do and how we know whether we’re choosing the right path.
