The Day my Dog became a Triangle

triangle dog

The Day my Dog became a Triangle Dogs are not triangles.  Any fool knows this.  They don't even bother assessing this knowledge when they issue you with a dog license.  So it was very awkward indeed when my dog became a triangle. For a start her name is Chloe. This is less embarrassing to call out ...

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The Edge of Chaos Posters

I want to share a resource I've been working on over the last week called the Edge of Chaos Posters.   I've designed a couple of posters that try to illustrate the idea of the relationship between certainty and uncertainty. I decided to select words that in some way illustrate the ideas of certainty and uncertainty, order ...

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Embracing Uncertainty in Life and Careers

What does uncertainty mean to you?  To many uncertainty is a threat to be avoided or overcome. To others it offers surprise and opportunity.  For some it is both of these things depending upon the context. Uncertainty has a love-hate relationship with planning.  On the one hand uncertainty is one of the major reasons people make ...

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Is goal setting past its peak? Some new data.

How long has there been serious interest in goal setting?  You might be forgiven for thinking it has always been a key approach to changing human behavior.  However according to PsycInfo (the largest and most authoritative database on published psychological research), between 1900 and 1980, a search of this data base on the terms "goal ...

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Make or Break Moments in Careers and Life

Make or Break Moments in Careers and Life Are there moments in life that are make or break?  In Chaos Theory of Careers Terms, tipping points, where everything changes? Can we predict them, how do we deal with them? This link here takes you to an ABC broadcast "Life Matters" where I was interviewed alongside Peter Fitzsimons, ...

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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 10 – From Knowing In Advance To Living With Emergence

Here is a spoiler alert - if you are likely to be going to the cinema or watching TV in the next while, you may want to skip the next paragraph. Rosebud was his sledge.  They all did it.  The dog dies in the final reel.  The shark gets blown up with a scuba diving tank. ...

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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 9: From Normative Thinking To Normative And Scalable Thinking

Bell shaped curve monster

Transform your career by shifting: Shift 9: From Normative Thinking To Normative And Scalable Thinking When I was a child, I didn't want to be with the other young kids in the shallow end of the pool, but I was also secretly too scared to want to be at the deep end where the cool kids ...

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