Steve Faktor point out the most of the top 10 happiest jobs involve engaging the senses making a product or helping others. He warns against the downsides of the sedantary online life shuffling powerpoint slides – and in favour of moving and making things.
It makes loads of sense to me, and I certainly could do with applying the wisdom more in my own life.
Hat tip: Tweet from Anne McCrossan
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
Thanks to Tony Goodson (via Tom Peters) for this: “Managers are the dinosaurs of our modern organizational ecology. The Age of Management is finally coming to a close. The need
Keith Sawyer spots some research that looked at some famous “loner” creatives and found that their most creative periods coincided with less social isolation.
A Swedish teacher wonders how to compete with World of Warcraft. Good question the sort we might chat about on Wednesday afternoon at NESTA. There’s room for few more if
Another challenging post by Antonio Dias: Driven by Fear.Recognizing our own fear as we approach those we recognize to be driven by fear directs our attention at the dynamics of
