Monthly Archives: February 2010

Why work-life balance might be bad for you!

Enlightened employers implement policies that provide flexible working hours, or condensed periods of work that provide for more “leisure time”. Yet for many of us, we still seem to be at the office 24/7, or we harbour the guilty secret that our work actually gives us more or “kick” than our so-called leisure-time. Continue reading

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Seven questionable beliefs about Stress

A comparison of the ultimate executives – the Prime Ministers and Presidents of the UK, USA and Australia who were born and died in the 20th century shows that if they can avoid assassinations in the US or swimming outside the flags in Australia, they tend to live a lot longer than their male counterparts. One of the reasons could be that they have greater support in terms of people to delegate work to and regular medical monitoring. Continue reading

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to argue that choice and chanc…

to argue that choice and chance are alternatives is to fail to appreciate that chance can present choices and choices can lead to chance

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laughter comes from the unexpe…

laughter comes from the unexpected not the predictable. what does that say about having work that is fun?

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if you are not making it up as…

if you are not making it up as you go along what on earth do you think you are doing?

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work is contribution – knowing…

work is contribution – knowing what you can contribute is purpose, contributing is your work, describing your contributions is job hunting

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Giving heart

Long day of training folks on realities of chaos theory of careers. Then at the end of the day I saw a client in the classroom – I am on the road again in Melbourne. The client told his story … Continue reading

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