Date: Friday 17 February, 2017
Words by Mary Freer
Compassionate leadership is fundamental to high-quality, high- performing systems and drives improvement in performance. Professor Michael West Senior Fellow at The Kings Fund I’m excited to announce the birth of a new initiative: Compassion La...
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Date: Friday 30 September, 2016
Words by Mary Freer
Trust is both seed and fruit of a culture in which people are working at their best. In organisations with high levels of trust, costs are lower, clients are better served and innovation is more likely to flourish. Ed Smith and Richard Reeves, Paperi...
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Date: Monday 27 June, 2016
Words by Mary Freer
The world gets better. It also gets worse. The time it will take you to address this is exactly equal to your lifetime, and if you’re lucky you don’t know how long that is. The future is dark. Like night. There are probabilities and likel...
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Date: Thursday 16 June, 2016
Words by Mary Freer
We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love. Tennessee Williams In the last 2 months I have traveled through 12 international airports and visited 5 countries as a Westpac Bicentennial Social Innova...
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Date: Tuesday 24 May, 2016
Words by Mary Freer
When people are joyous in their work…they are more alert, they’re more curious, they can learn. They’re not scared of data and information. They’re not scared to ask a question, not scared to ask how am I doing? or how could I...
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Date: Monday 16 May, 2016
Words by Mary Freer
The body is always in the present moment. Always. Emma Seppälä. This week I headed up West 31st Street to spend a day at the Eileen Fisher Learning Lab for a workshop on Embodied Wisdom. It’s no exaggeration to say I often completely forget I...
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Date: Saturday 14 May, 2016
Words by Mary Freer
Most discoveries, even today are a combination of serendipity and searching. Siddartha Mukherjee New York City turned on the sunshine this week. Amid all the frantic noise, the incessant honking of horns and jack hammering of renovation, the sky st...
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Date: Sunday 8 May, 2016
Words by Mary Freer
The antidote to exhaustion is not rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness. Brother David Steindl-Rast My time in the UK has come to an end. I’ve  spent the last 14 days running for the right train on the Underground and hiking u...
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Date: Sunday 1 May, 2016
Words by Mary Freer
Your great mistake is act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you at times, ha...
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Date: Tuesday 19 April, 2016
Words by Mary Freer
Their hearts beat fast as they stand here But not from fear It is the exciting anticipation that comes from having wilderness running in your blood They are ready Ready to meet the beasts and befriend them. At the Brink of the Wilderness, Team 19 Fin...
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