Ever wondered why anyone would be crazy enough to go camping for their holidays amongst all those bitey things? It is because the wearied business traveller cannot face the prospect of yet another cramped and delayed flight, a cold room service meal, and another whopping credit card bill covering said flight, room with no windows, oh and the reasonably priced $30 English breakfast!
When you set a career goal you are highlighting that there is something about your current circumstances that you want to change, and that you will be happier when you achieve your goal of changing your circumstances. Such thinking means accepting two premises: firstly, my current circumstances are not making me happy (if they were why change?), and secondly, that when I achieve my goal I will be happier.
Most of us have had to endure some of the extremes of management dogma throughout our careers, and most of us submit to some form of performance management at work. If you ever suspected that some of hoops you were made to jump through were unnecessary, unhelpful or unfair, then you might want to make Jeffrey Pfeffer your pin up boy.
It is not uncommon for people to mistake me for George Clooney, then soon after the alarm clock goes off and I stop dreaming. However having recently watched George’s latest Oscar nominated Up in the Air, I began to see some similarities with the character he plays ( I am writing this in Vancouver Airport).
Some people are born idle, some achieve idleness and others have idleness thrust upon them. For the born idle, it must feel like the golden years have finally arrived.
The aggressive apology is usually a list of apologies: I am sorry that the report you dumped on me last night is late and I am sorry that I couldn’t get the ancient printer to work that you wont replace and I am sorry that I was late getting here this morning because I had to go across town to collect the parcel you left behind and I am sorry that I exist. In other words it is your fault.
We spend so much of our time urging clients to prepare prepare prepare, yet in my case, if I do this, I become stale. I get bored. I forget what I think I am going to say. I know what I will say, but I don’t know. It is a fractal idea from Chaos Theory – the same but different, sort of like old, but unique. I often do not know what is going to come out of my mouth 10 seconds before I go on.
