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Posted by: Jo on: November 4, 2008
5 contemporary concepts for understanding why some groups buzz with expectation
Self-styled vagabond, Sam Brannon, asked a good question last weekend on Linkedin. Are we in a state of learned helplessness?
I’m an inveterate shaper so I am always asking “is what we do important and are we doing the important things?” Because I ask these questions, [...]
Posted by: Jo on: October 29, 2008
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For the last two weekends, I ran a little poll here on your plans for beating the recession. The full poll and results are at the end of the post.
Of the two score or so people who answered, this was the modal response.
I have only scenario planned the future INFORMALLY. [...]
Posted by: Jo on: October 11, 2008
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What’s morale like where you live?
During the last week, I have seen person-after-person say they are exhausted, catch a cold, and just slump, sometimes close to tears.
My favourite radio programme, Any Questions, (here on Fridays 1900 GMT) is normally my laughter medicine for the week. This week it was sombre. Jokes ran to [...]
Posted by: Jo on: August 14, 2008
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Any of these topics - psychology, chaos theory and complexity theory - is heavy reading on its own. All three together?
David Pinctus’ new blog explains chaos and complexity theory in psychology and is tucked away at the end of the Self-Help blogs on Psychology Today. David’s blog is probably far too heavy [...]
Posted by: Jo on: June 5, 2008
Starting with a simple framework
For the last year, I’ve been systematically reading around appreciative inquiry, positive psychology and the mytho-poetic tradition of leadership and I’m at a point where I can see commonalities in the way management, psychology anhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionismd literature approach leadership.
Corporate poet, David Whyte, makes a good argument that life cannot be reduced to [...]
Posted by: Jo on: April 28, 2008
Yesterday, The Independent published its counter to the Rich List: the Happy List.
Did I miss the happy workplaces? Are work and happiness antinomal?
I am dreaming of a sandwich where the filling appreciates the bread and the bread celebrates the filling.
Posted by: Jo on: April 6, 2008
I have absolutely no idea how this came on my screen. I was googling SABC news and this popped up. Well it did, and if you are interested in positive psychology, setting goals, having a meaningful life, then this story is for you.
I am going to paste it in verbatim. It is [...]
Posted by: Jo on: March 11, 2008
Advice from an ‘old hand’ to a ‘new teacher’ whose class got the better of him : in Goodbye Mr Chips, which I watched over the weekened.
“You have some hours before prep starts. Go out. Out there under the sky. Look around. What is the saying? Distance lends enchantment to the [...]
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