Category Archives: Chaos Theory of Careers

Stuff about my Chaos Theory of Careers

Jim Bright Keynote video clip on chaos, shift happening and spys in Ottawa

This is a 11 minute clip of my Keynote Know Change and No Change:how I learned to love chaos given to open the Cannexus Career Development Conference in Ottawa, January 2011.

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Having the courage to live authentically on the edge of chaos

The most common way of dealing with uncertainty is to close our minds and limit our options and behaviors.  The trouble is that the world and the people in it are uncertain, and our typical response to that risks us not exploring that world or ourselves.   If you believe the world is flat and that ...

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Transform your Career by shifting: Shift 7 From Goals, Roles And Routines To Meaning, Mattering, And Black Swans

Shiftwork is the work we have to do to manage, thrive and survive in a world where shift happens.  I've identified 11 shifts that we have to make (see here), so far I've addressed the first six, and in this post, I address the seventh shift.  The earlier ones you can read by following these ...

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Researching Chaotically Presentation by Robert Pryor & Jim Bright

This is a presentation given by Robert Pryor and Jim Bright at the Career Development Association International Conference, Cairns, QLD, April 29th 2011. It addresses some of the issues in researching the Chaos Theory of Careers.   Researching chaotically View more presentations from JimBright Career-Development.

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Narrative the untold story – presentation by Jim Bright and Robert Pryor CDAA 2011

Here are the slides of a paper given by Robert Pryor and myself at the Career Development Association of Australia International Conference, in Cairns, Qld, Australia, on April 27th 2011. It highlights the strengths, but also the limitations of the narrative approach.     Narrative the untold story View more presentations from JimBright Career-Development.

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Are we on task? – A presentation by Jim Bright & Robert Pryor to the CDAA IAEG 2011 Research Forum

This is a research presentation made by Robert Pryor and Jim Bright presented in the Research Forum of the Career Development Association of Australia International Conference in Cairns, April 26th 2011.     Are we on task View more presentations from JimBright Career-Development.

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Finding Harmony in work: A strategy to re-soul your career

Harmony: Finding Harmony in work: A strategy to re-soul your career In my earlier blog Resouling your career I defined harmony in the following terms: "Harmony is a joyful dance through and with life." Here I want to expand on some practical ideas for finding harmony in your career. In part prompted by Ed Colozzi's excellent ...

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