The Chaos Theory of Careers says its all down to chance right? So why do you need a career practitioner if it is all chance? So the logic goes that gives rise to the question and title of this blog. It is a question that I am told was asked at a recent CDAA meeting. Let ...
This is a 11 minute clip of my Keynote Know Change and No Change:how I learned to love chaos given to open the Cannexus Career Development Conference in Ottawa, January 2011.
The most common way of dealing with uncertainty is to close our minds and limit our options and behaviors. The trouble is that the world and the people in it are uncertain, and our typical response to that risks us not exploring that world or ourselves. If you believe the world is flat and that ...
Coaching and Leading for the short-term and authenticity The short term gets a bad press. A short-term measure is frequently seen as superficial, a temporary band aid solution that fails to address the deeper underlying problem. This perspective fails to recognise the fact that the short term regularly turns out to be long term. The things ...
Recently Harvard academics Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman wrote a piece in the Academy of Management Journal highlighting a range of serious problems with the overuse and uncritical use of goal setting (link here). They essentially argue that goal setting often comes with a series of side ...
I have just contributed a blog on the Careers in Theory site outlining step by step how I use the Chaos Theory of Careers in Counseling. Check it out here Applied Chaos: Jim Bright on putting the theory into practice http://wp.me/pCwmV-oI
