Something is horribly wrong with how we see work
I recently spent a morning catching up on some reading that had been filling up one of the windows in my web browser. You know, when you’ve got so many tabs open you know that your machine must be taking strain? So it was either read or close tabs. The anxious...
An Unsafe Book You Should Be Reading?
It’s a question I often ask during a presentation I might be giving. A challenge to the audience around the books they’re reading, or rather should be reading. I’m of the opinion that, in business, we read what I term, ‘safe books’. The...
What has Meditation got to do with Business?
You sit, eyes closed, and turn your attention inward. You focus your attention on an immediate experience, perhaps your breath or a mantra. You become more aware of yourself as a body breathing. When thoughts or emotions come up, you observe them with curiosity,...
Is This The Ultimate Performance Review?
The annual performance review, disliked in most companies by those being reviewed. But what if you turned it on it’s head, and instead of the employee being reviewed it was the company? Is Amazon’s adoption of a Zappos people practice just that, and if it...
What’s in a Title? Enough for a Blog Post, Master Jedi Blogger :-)
I came across this post a few mornings ago… ‘What Do You Call Yourself? Changing Job Titles in Social Media’. The author, Andrew Hutchinson, takes a quick look at how titles in the Social Media space have changed over time. He divides them up into...
