Moving beyond snobbery
In this TED talk Philosopher Alain de Botton invites us to examine our fixed notions of success and failure and suggests that snobbery may play a part in our enjoyment (or lack thereof) of our work....
View ArticleWorking Knowledge Initiative
Following on from my previous post – here’s a short video about Accord Advisory Group’s Working Knowledge Initiative in New York – it starts on 3 November.
View ArticleThe cult of the positive
I listened to New York Times writer Barbara Ehrenreich speak at Barnes and Noble last week – her new book Bright Sided has just been published and it’s a damming indictment of the cult of the positive...
View Articlesoft skills, hard skills…
A very simple exercise designed to get a group of currently under-employed professionals to identify their current skill set generated a very interesting finding today. The first part of the exercise,...
View ArticleOn wealth
From the School of Life Money, Aristotle felt, needed not one virtue, as one might expect, but two. The virtue of Generosity deals with every day amounts. It tells us it is mean not to tip and...
View Articleon fairytales, disappointment and risks
Why are fairytales are so compelling? Adam Phillips in the Guardian writes If genius, as Sartre said, is the word we use for people who get themselves out of impossible situations, what is the word for...
View ArticleThe fetish of originality
Interesting study over at Technology Review When it comes to creativity, it’s easy to imagine that more is better. Creativity lies at the heart of science. It solves problems and drives innovation....
View ArticleLiving well in 2010
It’s that time of the year again when newspapers do their end of year round up and we review the past year and hope for a better one next year. I’ve never been one for making new year resolutions...
View ArticleWhat’s love got to do with it?
Quite a lot if this Newsweek article is to be believed. In September 2008 English singer Billy Bragg performed at something called the Big Busk. After posting the chords of the songs he would play on...
View ArticleOn Learning from Challenging Assignments
Sometimes the worst situations offer the best learning. In a gathering of colleagues recently we shared stories of some challenging consulting assignments. Yes, there were difficult clients and some...
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