The Strange Strength of Vulnerability Here is a paradox - the strongest systems are those that are most susceptible to change. They are the ones that have a lot of connections. The more connected a person is, the more sources of support they can draw upon when they are struggling. The more people in a person's ...
I got a gift from Brené Brown the other day. Actually you could call it a gift squared, because the gift was The Gifts of Imperfection, her popular and really very very good book. Brené, unbeknownst to me, offers prizes for contributions of comments to her blog. My name came out of her Houston Hat, ...
Shift: Transform your career by shifting: Shift 8: From Informing To Informing And Transforming What is easier - working with a person to understand the limits and biases in their thinking and then helping them change their thinking, or giving them leaflet? Is it easier to listen to a person's career story, and help that person discern ...
In the Chaos Theory of Careers, non-linearity refers to that fact that sometimes very small acts can lead to huge responses down the line, or the opposite, that sometimes very large acts lead to little or no difference later. Edward Lorenz the father of Chaos said famously at a Scientific meeting on Meteorology ...
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The Chaos Theory of Careers says its all down to chance right? So why do you need a career practitioner if it is all chance? So the logic goes that gives rise to the question and title of this blog. It is a question that I am told was asked at a recent CDAA meeting. Let ...
Here is a five minute video of my Keynote "Know Change and No Change: how I learned to love Chaos" presented at the Cannexus Career Development Conference in January 2011 If you like it, please mark it as liked on youtube and even leave a comment or two!
