Oppositional Thoughts…What if you follow your Passion and your Passion gets a restraining order for stalking?
Oppositional Thoughts…amusing provocations against simplistic careers and life advice Volume 1
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The Factory Podcast Interview with the late Dick Bolles
Interview with author and all round careers guru, Dick Bolles, author of the 10 million selling What Color is your Parachute
Fear – the major barrier in career development
Fear stifles some of the most important career behaviours we need to exhibit to be successful in the 21st century workplace such as flexibility, openness, persistence, curiosity, creativity, teamwork, and leadership.
Communication and Engagement in the workplace
entered the office of a colleague (who had been university friend). Our boss was in there with my friend, and looked up and simply said “F___ Off” James” and my friend, in a supine gesture reiterated the instruction in precisely the same terms. Some friend.
Chaos Theory of Careers and Edward Lorenz
The Chaos Theory of Careers asserts we should consider our careers much in the same way we think about the weather. That there are broad patterns of relative stability, but at the same time there are significant patterns of instability and that trying to predict much in advance is futile.
Career improvisation
Making it up as you go along is probably one of the most effective success strategies you can implement. The trouble is that patrons of the predictable try to brainwash lesser mortals like you and me with their grand narratives (tall stories) about how anyone can achieve complete control of their lives.
What makes a good leader?
Using the rhetoric of mutual responsibility, what may be lurking underneath is a lack of trust in staff to do the right thing. This can amount to little more than blame shifting exercises in the event that something goes wrong.