Finding Clarity

Outline

Finding Clarity (2019) offers a mindful approach to making decisions and leading through uncertainty. It encourages readers to pause, listen carefully, examine their assumptions, and distinguish immediate pressures from the priorities that deserve their attention.

• Pausing before you decide gives you room to see a situation more clearly instead of reacting to it.
• Listening carefully, to others and to yourself, is a practical leadership skill, not just a courtesy.
• Examining your own assumptions helps you notice where your thinking may be steering you wrong.
• Urgent pressures and real priorities are different things, and good leaders learn to tell them apart.
• Mindfulness and self-inquiry can help you lead through uncertainty and work out the way forward.

Marc Lesser is an executive coach, author, and teacher whose work connects mindfulness with leadership and organisational effectiveness. He has led companies and leadership programmes, including work associated with bringing mindfulness practices into modern professional environments.