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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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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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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 8: From Informing To Informing And Transforming

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 ...

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Jim Bright talking change and chaos video from his Cannexus Keynote 2011

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!

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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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