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My top 10 career development books

Career Development Books

My top 10 career development books It is an almost impossible task to come up with a definitive list of my top ten career development books. However I set myself the task of choosing a list of books that met my following criteria. My top ten career development books: I have personally found them useful and inspirational ...

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Confront the complex!: The Career Challenge of 21st century complexity

The history of mankind can be understood through our reactions to complexity in the pre-machine, primitive machine, industrial and information technology eras. In the the pre-machine era, complexity arose from our familiar surroundings and the challenge of feeding, nuturing and protecting ourselves and our groups.  The immediacy of these challenges and the limited opportunities or hazards ...

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How to get luck on your side

Here is an article in the Australian Financial Review on Luck in Careers. How to get luck on your side in your career. It is about luck in careers, luck readiness, and luck and career success. Click this link for the article. Click this link if you want to take the Luck Readiness Inventory.        

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The Edge of Chaos Posters

I want to share a resource I've been working on over the last week called the Edge of Chaos Posters.   I've designed a couple of posters that try to illustrate the idea of the relationship between certainty and uncertainty. I decided to select words that in some way illustrate the ideas of certainty and uncertainty, order ...

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Embracing Uncertainty in Life and Careers

What does uncertainty mean to you?  To many uncertainty is a threat to be avoided or overcome. To others it offers surprise and opportunity.  For some it is both of these things depending upon the context. Uncertainty has a love-hate relationship with planning.  On the one hand uncertainty is one of the major reasons people make ...

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Make or Break Moments in Careers and Life

Make or Break Moments in Careers and Life Are there moments in life that are make or break?  In Chaos Theory of Careers Terms, tipping points, where everything changes? Can we predict them, how do we deal with them? This link here takes you to an ABC broadcast "Life Matters" where I was interviewed alongside Peter Fitzsimons, ...

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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 10 – From Knowing In Advance To Living With Emergence

Here is a spoiler alert - if you are likely to be going to the cinema or watching TV in the next while, you may want to skip the next paragraph. Rosebud was his sledge.  They all did it.  The dog dies in the final reel.  The shark gets blown up with a scuba diving tank. ...

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