Shiftwork is the work we all have to do to manage, survive and thrive in the face of a world where Shift Happens. I've identified 11 shifts that we have to make (see here) and the first shift (see here) below I give a few tips about how to achieve the second one. Shift 2: From Plans ...
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Oppositional Thoughts Volume 5 Amusing sideways looks at Careers, HR and Life Advice
The 3 Rs of Creativity and Careers
The 3 Rs of Creativity and Careers I found myself coining a new phrase to capture some of the key ideas in career development. The phrase is: Reinvent, Respond, Resort The idea flowed from an inspiration from Steve Jobs being interviewed by Stephen Fry in Time Magazine. Jobs responding to Fry's question about his "career" said ""I do stuff. I ...
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 ...
Chaos theory of careers tutorial: Using the Change Perception Index
Oppositional Thoughts…amusing provocations against simplistic careers and life advice Volume 1
Oppositional Thoughts…What if you follow your Passion and your Passion gets a restraining order for stalking?
World cup careers, fine lines, hands of God and all that chaos
Generally speaking in the game of Association Football, hands are only used to thump other players, grab large amounts of cash for endorsements, and to hold the manicured hands of teamate’s wives and girlfriends, or should that read “hands of teamates, wives and girlfriends”. An apostrophe and a comma radically alter the meaning. Two of the tiniest grammatical devices can make all the difference between a team player and a player of the field. Small things matter.