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 ...
Category Archives: Goal setting
Coaching and Leading for the short-term and authenticity
Coaching and Leading for the short-term and authenticity The short term gets a bad press. A short-term measure is frequently seen as superficial, a temporary band aid solution that fails to address the deeper underlying problem. This perspective fails to recognise the fact that the short term regularly turns out to be long term. The things ...
Transform your Career by shifting: Shift 3 From Narrowing Down To Being Focused On Openness
Transform your Career by shifting: Shift 2 From Plans To Plans And Planning
Oppositional Thoughts…Volume 4
Here is Volume 4 of my Oppositional Thoughts...They are designed to gently puncture some of the slightly precious life advice out there, and to complexify overly simplistic homilies, that make life appear a lot simpler than it is in reality. You can find Volume 3 here and Volume 2 here and Volume 1 here Oppositional thoughts...There is ...
Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Overprescribing Goal Setting
Recently Harvard academics Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman wrote a piece in the Academy of Management Journal highlighting a range of serious problems with the overuse and uncritical use of goal setting (link here). They essentially argue that goal setting often comes with a series of side ...
Your goal? What do you want? appiness! I beg your pardon!
When you set a career goal you are highlighting that there is something about your current circumstances that you want to change, and that you will be happier when you achieve your goal of changing your circumstances. Such thinking means accepting two premises: firstly, my current circumstances are not making me happy (if they were why change?), and secondly, that when I achieve my goal I will be happier.