Paul Adam Mudd
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The relationship of “fathers and children” worried not only our past generations, but this problem is also relevant today more than ever. In many ways,…
Tomorrow's Leadership Today – The A.I. Playbook! | FE News
Artificial Intelligence is set to change things beyond recognition. The illiterate of the future will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Today’s leaders need to evolve to become “icons for tomorrow”, and a simple acronym DIPOCA could provide the answer. “The purpose of leadership is to create more leaders.” – John Maxwell How does this quote sit with today’s VUCA world? Does it chime with our modern stochastic environment.
'Real Leadership & Influence Tropes
This post is part of a continuing narrative looking at various aspects of the use of Influence in Leadership.
Leadership In The Post Pandemic Workplace – What’s Important Now? | FE News
“What the great educator does is make it possible for students to become themselves.” Paulo Freire. And what the great leader does is to enable those they lead to show-up and become themselves, and an important part of this is to describe what is important right now. In very practical terms though, what will this mean for Leadership as we move forward. What new fluencies will be required? What new challenges will we face?
"If You Are On A Board What Are The 9 Questions You Must Ask Yourself Right Now?"
By Paul Adam Mudd Photo by Dane Deaner on Unsplash "O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the highest heaven of invention!" (William Shakespeare, Henry V) Seated round a Boardroom table, how many of us have felt this, or something akin, although perhaps a tad less dramatically?
“Enough Is Enough – So, Let’s Stop All The Nastiness Now!” – FE News
If we are serious about giving peace a chance, we’ve really got to stop beating each other up in the social and political space! And Cancellation is just digitised bear baiting! Welcome To Social Media 2022 Words today speak louder than actions.
So, What is Mindfulness?
By Paul Adam Mudd Want To Be That Mindful Fish- Being Present - Being in the Moment - Being the Pond? Welcome to the 1st piece in a short new series looking at #MindfulHacks for Mindful Living and Mindful Working. Everything you've always wanted to know about Mindfulness in one dish, and I'll be posting regularly over the next...
A 2-Minute Breathing Exercise to Increase Mindfulness
By Paul Adam Mudd Inhale. Exhale. Breathe. "Alight on your breath, focus on what you are doing at that precise moment and enjoy the appreciation and feeling of being present in the moment." 'Uncovering Mindfulness: In Search of a Life More Meaningful' Mindful Breathing which uses the breath as an anchoring point,can calm and centre the mind and body...
The Windmills Of Your Mind. Or, Mindfulness By Another Name!
By Paul Adam Mudd 'The Windmills of your mind' was not only the standout song from the Steve McQueen/ Faye Dunaway film 'The Thomas Crown Affair' in 1968, it was also a massive worldwide hit in 1969. As partial as I am to windmills though, what I'm really interested in talking about in this piece is the influence that circles and patterns have on our lives and the way we live...
Quo Vadis Baby!
How can you become Awesome? How can you be the Best You? Maybe from where you are standing right now these may sound like rather tough, if not impossible to answer questions? But there are a few simple steps you can take to begin your journey and increase your , & take your andto a whole new level - And I'm not going to suggest anything fancy, and certainly nothing crazy! Many of us through life, work experiences, parental upbringing, social conditioning or just plain...
How to Introduce Mindfulness into Your Workforce
And that wasn't bad for something that had already been around for over 2,500 years. In February 2013, more than 40 of the world's most influential people were crammed into a room at the Davos Economic Summit in Switzerland, to practice Mindfulness. By the end of 2013, 50 UK MPs and Peers were taking part in weekly Mindfulness sessions, held in the august environs of the Houses of Parliament.
In A World Turned Upside Down You’d better Like Rough Edges! – FE News
“We live in a world where there is more & more information, & less and less meaning.” Jean Baudrillard But we are not just living in a world that is relentlessly complex, we are living through a #Permacrisis – A permanent or perpetual crisis! In the past six years we’ve endured: 2016 – Brexit 2020 – COVID 2021– An imminent ‘Climate Catastrophe’: As world leaders gathered in Glasgow for COP 26, it was announced we are “One minute to midnight” in the race to save the planet, & 2022– Russia...
Leadership 2022 – A New Blueprint For Basic Human Stuff! – FE News
“…What’s important isn’t fame or glamour, none of these things I used to dream about, it’s the ability to endure…” Nina, ‘The Seagull’, Anton Chekov. As we begin 2022 we are living with continuing tensions created by: The Discombobulating effects of a Coronavirus Pandemic; the Staggering impact of a growing Mental Health Crisis Galloping Inequality; & Plummeting Social & Political Trust.
“Dream Big Whilst You ‘Learn To Sit In The Mud’ - 10 Steps That Will Make Life More Fulfilling!”
Photo by Ryan Moreno on Unsplash New Year, New Goals, New Ways — #Mindfulness2022! “Without a dream there is no reality” [Tweet This] Day-in day-out we live 86,400 seconds and take around 22,000 breaths. We also check our phones on average 221 times a day. Perhaps read one or more of the four million blogs uploaded every 24 hours? Or fire off one of those 7130 tweets that are sent every second? That’s how it was in 2021, and that’s how it will be in 2022.
"In The Particular Is Contained The Universal- #LeadershipNow!"
Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash First Things First Today we are living with the: Discombobulating effects of a Coronavirus Pandemic; the Staggering impact of a growing Mental Health Crisis Galloping Inequality; & Plummeting Social & Political Trust. And during the current Coronavirus Pandemic we have all become crisis managers, whilst some of us have been leaders in a crisis that hasn’t followed a traditional management or leadership playbook.
If Moon-shot Thinking Is The Answer, What’s The Question?
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now” Johann Wolfgang van Goethe What’s Going On? Stories begin where they begin for a reason. So, how do you sculpt an elephant from a block of marble? The answer of course is simpler than you might think.
If Moon-shot Thinking Is The Answer, What’s The Question? | FE News
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now” Johann Wolfgang van Goethe Stories begin where they begin for a reason. So, how do you sculpt an elephant from a block of marble? The answer of course is simpler than you might think.
"Rockets - Moon Shots!"
By Paul Adam Mudd Photo by Trac Vu on Unsplash "Moon-Shot Thinking is not about making a 1% or even a 10% improvement,it's improving things tenfold (or 10x)." Stories begin where they begin for a reason. So, how do you sculpt an elephant from a block of marble?
“Being Sprezzatura - How To Become An Effortless Speaker & Presenter!”
Photo by Dr Josiah Sarpong on Unsplash “Speech is power, speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.” Ralph Waldo Emerson To Begin At The Beginning Which according to one well known Bear is always the best place to start. And, “Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.” A. A. Milne So, what are you looking for? Would you like to speak with insight, the weight of granite, and a soupcon of Tupelo Honey?
Back To The Office - Is It Now Time For Handrails, Harnesses, Or Both?”
“The radical openness of not knowing is a more adequate stance toward life and experience than believing or pretending to know.” Getting Back In its annual report, the World Economic Forum lists resilience, stress tolerance, flexibility and influence as essential skills for a post pandemic workplace, and for several months now colleagues have been preparing themselves to physically re-enter new (work) spaces.
Back To The Office – Is It Now Time For Handrails, Harnesses, Or Both?” – FE News
“The radical openness of not knowing is a more adequate stance toward life and experience than believing or pretending to know.” Getting Back In its annual report, the World Economic Forum lists resilience, stress tolerance, flexibility and influence as essential skills for a post pandemic workplace, and for several months now colleagues have been preparing themselves to physically re-enter new (work) spaces.
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A year on from the first lockdown, is it now time to stop talking about recovery? Because what if nothing is different when the surge…
“Power & Agency? Handrails or Harnesses? After COVID Will We Still Have The Power To Choose?”
Photo by David Edkins on Unsplash “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.” For over a year-and-half the global sweep and local impact of the Coronavirus has thrown everything in the air and whilst so much has been uncertain, one thing has been crystal clear — This is a long haul, and we will all need to continue to dig deep, and then deeper still.
"Board With Diversity?"
By Paul Adam Mudd Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Boards Brace For a Season Of Pay Rows! A recent headline in the Business Section of a Broadsheet daily declared: "Boards brace for a season of pay rows." Shareholders are set to express their fury at bonuses and salary rises handed to executives during the Covid_19 crises.
“It’s Time To Stop Talking About Recovery!”
A year on from the first lockdown, is it now time to stop talking about recovery? Because what if nothing is different when the surge cedes, the waves abide and fewer and fewer of us are touched by this remorseless virus? I have written in another recent piece how the brain is hardwired towards a negativity bias.
“Recovery Or Regrowth - Is This Not The Real Post Pandemic Question?”
Photo by Dan Gold on Unsplash Autopoiesis, tells us that people are only interested in what they are interested in. (1.) “Nothing’s the same. Everything’s different. Everything’s the same. Nothing’s different.” What if nothing is different when the surge cedes, the waves abide and fewer and fewer of us are touched by this remorseless virus? I have written in another recent piece how the brain is hardwired towards a negativity bias.
Is This Not The Real Post Pandemic Question?"
By Paul Adam Mudd Photo by Dan Gold on Unsplash Autopoiesis, tells us that people are only interested in what they are interested in. (1.) "Nothing's the same. Everything's different. Everything's the same. Nothing's different." What if nothing is different when the surge cedes, the waves abide and fewer and fewer of us are...
"What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Ourselves!"
By Paul Adam Mudd "It was the best of times and the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the Spring of hope, it was the Winter of despair" Charles Dickens, 'A Tale of Two Cities'
"A Truth Universally Acknowledged
By Paul Adam Mudd Photo by Blaz Erzetic on Unsplash "Give me a place to stand and I will move the world", Archimedes It is a truth universally acknowledged that it is easier to begin a story then to end it and with...
'Coronavirus & Wellbeing In The Eye Of The Storm!'
This piece builds on the podcast, ‘Coronavirus & Wellbeing in the Eye of the Storm’ which can be found on the Mudd Partnership’s website ‘Coronavirus — What next?’ Resources Page from 10AM BST, Monday 6th July 2020, by clicking on the link here.
“A Truth Universally Acknowledged - We Need A New Story In A Time Of COVID!”
Photo by Blaz Erzetic on Unsplash “Give me a place to stand and I will move the world”, Archimedes It is a truth universally acknowledged that it is easier to begin a story then to end it and with COVID_19 that is no less true. We don’t yet know how, or when it will end, but our story starts here. And “Plus est en vous”, translates into English as, “There is more in you.” It was the moto of the influential 15th century noble family the Van Gruuthuuse, who lived in Flanders, now Belgium.
“What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Ourselves!”
“It was the best of times and the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the Spring of hope, it was the Winter of despair” Charles Dickens, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ “Winter of Despair” — The Box Set?
Mindfulness & Coaching - Now Here’s The Thing!
Don’t focus on process — Focus on purpose. Don’t focus on what happens — Focus on what will be different & better, because change is a constant in all areas of our lives. And together let’s find our True North! In this piece I want to focus on something that is rather close to my heart. It builds on all my previous work on Mindfulness & in particular on the professional/business side of Mindfulness.
What Is Truth?
“Let’s build cathedrals with columns and arches to the stars, to let all light and hope shine within, and be of benefit to all mankind” (Anon) Now here’s the thing! Never have we lived in a time when we have so much information — And so much misinformation! F Scott Fitzgerald, author of the 1925 novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ wrote, “The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function” However, today’s...
‘Coronavirus & Wellbeing In The Eye Of The Storm!’
This piece builds on the podcast, ‘Coronavirus & Wellbeing in the Eye of the Storm’ which can be found on the Mudd Partnership’s website ‘Coronavirus — What next?’ Resources Page from 10AM BST, Monday 6th July 2020, by clicking on the link here.
How to Turn Your Social Media Mojo On & Lead the Way!
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion, but Leadership of any kind has never been about popularity. So, time to take control, n’est pas? A true Leader is willing and comfortable to allow their professional and personal lives to merge, and this is becoming more and more the rule rather than the exception, with the increasing reach-in and reach-across of Social Media.
Coronavirus - The New Normal & How To Work With It - Just Tell Me How This Ends
An Existential Challenge Right now, leadership looks and feels vastly different than it did just a few weeks ago – So, welcome to the new normal and the challenges this presents. “The difficulty lies not in the new, but in escaping the old”, wrote John Maynard Keynes. With so much uncertain though, we don’t have the luxury to choose. We must be resolute, ready to act on that resolve and respond to the challenges with courage and imagination.
Coronavirus – The New Normal & How To Work With It – Just Tell Me How This Ends – FE News
An Existential Challenge Right now, leadership looks and feels vastly different than it did just a few weeks ago – So, welcome to the new normal and the challenges this presents. “The difficulty lies not in the new, but in escaping the old”, wrote John Maynard Keynes. With so much uncertain though, we don’t have the luxury to choose. We must be resolute, ready to act on that resolve and respond to the challenges with courage and imagination.
Coronavirus - The New Normal & How To Work With It - Coming Out The Other Side
Not The Time For Quick Fixes & Short-Termism During a conversation with a senior education manager about the current crisis, there was a pause and then they said, “One thing I am very clear about is if we don’t look after our staff when we come out of this, we will pay the price” Another thing is also very clear, we mustn’t allow short-termism to prevail and quick fixes are not certain to be the right fixes when nothing is certain.
Coronavirus - The New Normal & How To Work With It - Coming Out The Other Side
Not The Time For Quick Fixes & Short-Termism During a conversation with a senior education manager about the current crisis, there was a pause and then they said, “One thing I am very clear about is if we don’t look after our staff when we come out of this, we will pay the price” Another thing is also very clear, we mustn’t allow short-termism to prevail and quick fixes are not certain to be the right fixes when nothing is certain.
Coronavirus – The New Normal & How To Work With It – Coming Out The Other Side – FE News
Not The Time For Quick Fixes & Short-Termism During a conversation with a senior education manager about the current crisis, there was a pause and then they said, “One thing I am very clear about is if we don’t look after our staff when we come out of this, we will pay the price” Another thing is also very clear, we mustn’t allow short-termism to prevail and quick fixes are not certain to be the right fixes when nothing is certain.
Uncovering Mindfulness
This book looks at the personal and professional, the universal and the particular, and, the theory and the practice. Taking in Mindful Living and Mindful Leadership, Mindfulness for Business and in the workplace, Mindfulness in Education and in the classroom, and Mindful Coaching amongst other things. And it has one simple ambition, to help everyone live a richer and a more fulfilled life.
Coronavirus - The New Normal - Some Home Truths
What are we supposed to feel? We are storytellers and map makers because of a need for permanence and certainty. What though are we supposed to now feel? It’s difficult to feel hopeful in the face of so much uncertainty, and without language and a narrative to describe and frame how we will experience things beyond this pandemic there is a real and present danger.
Coronavirus - The New Normal - Some Home Truths
Further Education News The FE News Channel gives you the latest education news and updates on emerging education strategies and the #FutureofEducation and the #FutureofWork. Providing trustworthy and positive Further Education news and views since 2003, we are a digital news channel with a mixture of written word articles, podcasts and videos.
Coronavirus – The New Normal – Some Home Truths – FE News
What are we supposed to feel? We are storytellers and map makers because of a need for permanence and certainty. What though are we supposed to now feel? It’s difficult to feel hopeful in the face of so much uncertainty, and without language and a narrative to describe and frame how we will experience things beyond this pandemic there is a real and present danger.
Coronavirus – The New Normal & How To Work With It – FE News
“So – What Next?” Shaken not Stirred Is it too early to think post-virus? Pandemics are certainly not the exception in human history, they are in fact the rule. Afterall modern humans have existed for about 200,000 years, whilst the oldest bacteria have been around for billions of years and viruses for at least 300 million years. Things are never the same after a pandemic as they were before, and Covid-19 has certainly shaken the world. Where will we be though when all that shaking stops?
Coronavirus - The New Normal & How To Work With It
“So – What Next?” Shaken not Stirred Is it too early to think post-virus? Pandemics are certainly not the exception in human history, they are in fact the rule. Afterall modern humans have existed for about 200,000 years, whilst the oldest bacteria have been around for billions of years and viruses for at least 300 million years. Things are never the same after a pandemic as they were before, and Covid-19 has certainly shaken the world. Where will we be though when all that shaking stops?
What Advice Would I Give My Younger Self?
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6 Mindfulness Tips for Thriving-and Surviving-in the Workplace
Be. Here. Now. By Paul Adam Mudd, Grandfather | Mindfulness Author | Huff Post, Thrive Global & Medium Writer | Well Being & Well Living Influencer | Savvy Thinker | Leadership Provocateur Be. Here. Now. Focus on your breath. Give your full Attention to the task. Avoid multi-tasking and loosing focus. Take Regular Mindful Coffee Breaks With deep breaths notice your surroundings. Then notice how you feel. Let your thoughts come and go without judgement.
Endings & New Beginnings
“When that April, with his showers sweet, the drought of March hath pierced to the roote and bath every vine in such liquor of which virtue engendered is the flower”, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, circa 1387. The Cycle of Life Now here’s the thing — There’s something about the advent of Spring that puts in mind thoughts of Wellness, Wellbeing and looking after and nourishing one’s self. Perhaps it’s the rebirth and renewal meme? Things coming back to life.
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