Facing the blank page

Monday morning. My first calls and meetings start in an hour and will continue until late, so I sit here with one task at hand, to write the daily post to go out tomorrow morning.

Normally that feels great, except today, there is a problem.

I have no idea what to write about, I am facing the blank page.

So what to do, not only as a writer but also as a leader when momentum has stalled, when your team is stuck, when you don’t know what to do next?

Join me as I explore these two questions.

So,

What do you do when you don’t know what to write? Just write.

What do you do when you don’t know what to do next as a leader? Just lead.

This brevity reminds me of my favourite podcast, @wittertainment , which I love as a movie fan as, formally, it is a movie review show. However, what I and a legion of fans around the world love more is the banter between the hosts, Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode, who laugh, joke and argue their way through two hours each week and have done for many, many years.

A few years ago they thought they might expand their social media profile when Snapchat was coming to the fore. As crusty mid 50s men, they decided to ask the young show production assistant on air “how do you Snapchat?”. His…