Peter Drucker said that we should, “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” We all need to recharge our personal batteries, but do we do it enough? How often do you retreat? Retreating in its spiritual or religious sense is about taking time away from everyday life and reflecting and seeking to find answers to the issues or problems that we face. Retreat, or quiet reflection, as a process helps us with our personal lives, but can also help us in our working lives too. Quiet reflection can give us perspective, clarity, give us space to learn and grow and also help us to be more self-aware. When we have days on the production line, wall-to-wall Teams Meetings, rushing between activities and meetings when do we give ourselves time to reflect? Meetings can be very good to air views and opinions and reach a consensus, but a trap that many organisations fall into is to end up having a meeting to d...
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