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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: August 27, 2008
This is one of the times when I am blown away by the depth and elegance of something on the internet(hat-tip to dubhlainn)
Micheldaw has recast the character strengths & virtues of Peterson & Seligman into the three classical roles of
Priest/Scholar
Knight Errant and
Renaissance man.
(Girls, women, females, don’t worry, it works for us too!)
His document is on [...]
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: August 7, 2008
How do you explain the simultaneity principle of positive psychology?
Last week, I gave a talk on positive psychology to psychology students at the University of Buckingham. I structured the talk around the five principles of appreciative inquiry which used to explore positive psychology and the poetry of David Whyte some months ago.
As I linked [...]
Posted by: Jo on: July 22, 2008
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Last week, someone kindly took me to see box office hit, Mama Mia. Meryl Streep and others were looking good, singing and dancing on a Greek Island.
I think the show is intended only as light hearted frivolity. It is a celebration, though, of baby boomer culture - bell bottoms, pop, and [...]
Posted by: Jo on: July 3, 2008
Almost a year ago, I put together a set of slides to illustrate the concepts and process in Positive Organizational Design. If you are beginning to read around the field of positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, positive organizational scholarship, or positive HR, you may find them useful.
They are five slides, each with quotations, beginning with
David [...]
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: May 13, 2008
Do not ask life for meaning, ask rather what meaning you give to life?
With apologies to Viktor Frankl who made the acute observation that we have to respond to the challenges that life present to us.
The Harare International Festival of Arts took place in Harare as scheduled - in spite of 165 000% inflation, in [...]
Posted by: Jo on: May 9, 2008
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I learned a new word today: kiasu.
We are showing ‘kiasu‘ when we load up up our plate with food “just in case” the food gets finished. Over-competitiveness.
It is a Mandarin word, and Singaporean cartoonist, Johnny Lau, has a cartoon character, Mr Kiasu, who in Singlish, “everything also I want”, “everything also sure [...]
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