All Things Related to careers
04.28.2006
One of the joys of introducing or reaquainting your child to your job and workplace is that you get to see it through their eyes. Often, they ask very simple questions that bust through our semi-conscious thinking and challenge those ideas that we just take for granted. And then, they add some much needed fun [...]
04.22.2006
I’ve been meditating on a particular prayer that prefaces a sermon written by Davidson Loehr, a Unitarian Universalist minister in Austin, Texas. Through this prayer, I’m facing off with that great demon known to us as Playing-It-Safe. Davidson writes: If we must fail, let us fail at high endeavors. Let us not fail to be [...]
04.18.2006
Here’s a thought…what if we treated our happiness and contentment with work and life as a RIGHT rather than a PRIVILEGE? A friend of mine reached out to me through my request for help locating folks in Austin, TX and in the midst of the dialogue, we surfaced this question. Kelly noted that her childhood [...]
04.04.2006
For Leah, my oldest daughter, April 27 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting days of the year (next to her birthday and Christmas). Why? April 27 is Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day. I think her excitement seems to be a mixture of spending time with me and doing [...]
03.26.2006
Okay, while I dig deeper in Working Wounded, I just found another of Bob Rosner’s pieces called The Only Thing Worse Than Lawyers… that strongly resonated with me because a set of workplace issues that I’m currently involved in. In particular, this is the part that spoke most clearly to me: The adversarial system thrives [...]
03.26.2006
Bob Rosner at ABCNews’s Working Wounded quasi-blog has some thoughts on the question of How Can We Create a Better Work Place? He quickly addresses topics like technology (he makes some very good points here), greed, and developing a “not-to-do list” before finishing with hope. The biggest thing that we need at work today is [...]
03.17.2006
Well, for me at least. I’ve been stopped cold in my tracks today by two deeply probing questions offered by Dick Richards at Come Gather Round: For what has my life been preparing me? What kind of me is my work creating? I need to reflect on the first question because I’m wandering now and [...]
03.16.2006
I have great and constantly growing respect for the work of David St Lawrence who writes at Ripples: Post-Corporate Adventures. His writing about our modern workplace is frank and often not pretty. It reminds me of the times I go for hikes and discover a beautiful stone only to pick it up and see all [...]
02.22.2006
Rosa Say has given me just the nudge that I need to do something that’s been floating on my to-do list for a while. This is Talking Story’s 2nd Annual Love Affair with Books where folks in her Ho’ohana Community have been encouraged to submit a book review. Well, I’ve been meaning to write a [...]
01.10.2006
The Harvard Business Review’s issue for January 2006 is devoted wholly to decision-making. I’m about one-quarter of the way through the magazine where there is an article called Decisions and Desire by Gardiner Morse. It focuses on the neuroscience behind our decision-making capacity and the growing proof that "we have dog brains, basically, with a [...]
