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Finding Your Writing Process
If you are a leader, you are in the communication business. That means, you need a process for putting thoughts into writing. Here's mine.
Gary Mayes
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Change Is Hard
Twelve months ago, I found myself in the throes of the largest, most disruptive, and personally difficult season of organizational change...

Gary Mayes
Jun 13, 2023


Your Sabbatical Can be Healthy for Your Whole Organization
A healthy sabbatical offers an organization--not just a leader--powerful opportunities to take new ground.

Gary Mayes
Jun 6, 2023


Navigating the 4 Phases of a Sabbatical
Four phases are common to a good sabbatical experience, but each one is fraught with temptations that can sabotage the best of intentions.

Gary Mayes
May 30, 2023


How Can I Build Trust?
Does it seem to you like we live in a moment when trust of leaders is at a real low? In politics we are more suspicious than ever. In the...

Gary Mayes
Oct 28, 2021


3 Reasons YOU Need a Canary
Coal mining is tough stuff. Gritty. Dangerous. Anything but romantic—except for the cute little canaries carried deep into the mines to...

Gary Mayes
May 20, 2021


TO GO FAST, GO SLOW
I am always thinking about change. I want to lead it well. I want to seize the power of it when it’s happening. I get impatient when it...

Gary Mayes
Dec 11, 2020


My 2020 Book of the Year
If a book is good, I don’t just read it. I have a conversation with it. I write comments, questions, and actionable ideas in the margins....

Gary Mayes
Dec 2, 2020
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