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Reflectiveness

The purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to
hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

OW OFTEN DO FIND YOURSELF RETURNING FROM A TRAINING COURSE
full of great new ideas but, within hours of being back at work, for-
Hgetting the insights you had gained? Or, consistently failing to
apply the lessons you learned from a new product launch or a meet-
ing with a client? Or, perhaps something goes quite badly wrong
and you don’t want to spend any more time on it, preferring instead
to move on and, in the process, sweeping it under the carpet?
Do you ever find yourself feeling uneasy about an event of
which you are part and not quite sure why this is? Do you ever get
into a state of uncertainty, not sure with which of a number of per-
fectly reasonable courses of action you should proceed?
Do things happen to you at work and leave you with a sneak-
ing suspicion that the problem is not at work but in your private
life?
One of the facts of modern living is that we spend a great
deal of time thinking about our external image: the clothes we wear,
the car we drive, the house we live in, or the places we choose to go
to eat. The media act as mirrors, continually telling us what kind of
person selects a particular brand. If we choose to deconstruct these
media mirrors, we can get a picture of ourselves from the outside as
a consumer.
The kind of mirror we really need is the one that tells us
something about the person beneath the image and how they are