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Editor's letter — On the patience of judgement
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A quarterly review of leadership thinking, educational materials and the slow craft of the senior career. Edited in Edinburgh since 2014.
// Issue XXIV · Featured Departments
Programmes published in this issue. Cohorts are admitted by direct enquiry to the editorial office.
A nine-month studio on the four classical disciplines of senior leadership: composure, judgement, repair and care.
A six-month studio in voice, presence and the language of consequence for the boardroom.
A continuing development programme on the literature, ethics and craft of mentoring.
A residential programme for late-career practitioners reinventing into adjacent industries.
Quarterly CPD short courses for chartered practitioners maintaining a senior register.
Free with every programme. £40 / year for non-Fellows. Posted to your registered address.
If the first decade of a senior career rewards a kind of quickness — closing deals, hitting targets, the visible competences of the meeting room — then the second decade quietly punishes that same quickness. The body remembers what the diary forgets. The boards that mattered last year care, this year, about a different register entirely. We have spent a year reading the literature.
Across nine departments and four sectors, the same observation keeps surfacing: the senior practitioners who continue to progress past their first directorship are the ones who learned, late, to slow down. The full essay continues on page twelve.
Continue to page 12 →When we founded Loidaysman in Drumsheugh Gardens, eleven years ago, we believed the senior career deserved a more serious literature than the productivity industry was providing. Eleven years on, the conviction has not weakened. If anything, our colleagues in the practice — heads of policy, directors of operations, chairs and chiefs — have grown more impatient with the noise.
This issue, Issue XXIV, gathers what we have learned in our last quarter of teaching. Six new programme briefs, a long-form review of the literature on the slow promotion, and three interviews with practitioners who have done the work of becoming uncommon at what they already do.
We continue to admit by enquiry, not application form. We continue to teach in cohorts of fifteen. We continue to print the Review on paper because some sentences are too important to lose to a tab. We are grateful, as always, to be read.
The Review and the studio receive every enquiry directly. We reply within three working days, by a faculty member, not a sequence.