Been away doing stuff, responding to stuff, thinking stuff, stuffing around and stuffin' up. Now's time to get blogging once more, look out for the next installment of shift work in about six hours time or just under....
Redundancy is generally a bad thing but there are plenty of people who should be made redundant without delay: Kim Jong Il of North Korea, and Omar Al Bashir of Sudan spring to mind. They should be joined by the self-proclaimed spokespersons for a generation. Especially the Gen Y spokespeople because of the widespread disservice ...
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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