Category Archives: General
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Hero's Code
Apologies for the lack of new posts recently, I’ve just returned from a trip to Spain. I’m slightly burnt but have a smile on my face 🙂 I’ve recently been introduced to Derek Jones’ blog, Hero’s Code. Derek talks about … Continue reading
Association of Career Professionals International
Simon Hamm has very kindly asked me to give a talk on ‘Career Success and Succession Planning’ to the London Chapter of the ACPI. The date is the 28th June at the new IoD (123). I’m hoping to talk a … Continue reading
IQ's Corner
Many thanks to Kevin McGrew who picked up on our post New Thinking in Psychology and Psychometrics – Part 1. Kevin very kindly reviewed our blog in his entry here. Kevin describes his blog as; An attempt to share contemporary … Continue reading
Ask Team Doc
I’ve been reading blogs for a while now and felt it was about time that our own list of links were updated. The first new addition is Denise O’Berry’s ‘Ask Team Doc’. Denise’s style takes on that of a Q&A … Continue reading
Management Jargon
Some more wordology! I found these charmers via Thad at the Monster blog. I’ll just repeat the phrases themselves, feel free to visit the post for the definitions. “At the end of the day” “The 50,000-foot perspective” “Pushing the envelope” … Continue reading
What are Bioteams?
I stumbled across Ken Thompson’s blog which looks at Bioteams. This is a new idea to me, but I like the sound of self organising teams, developing some of the biological metaphors and applying them to organisations and teams. Ken’s … Continue reading
Transitionist – Get it before its gone
A great bit of lingual humour via Terrence Seamon who mentions the newly minted term “Transitionist” Transition is most esentially about change and thanks to the suffix ‘-ist’ to be a transitionist is to be adept at transitions and more … Continue reading
Emotions Mapped by New Geography
Bruce Hoppe caught my eye with a rather fetching historical article on Psychological Geography! I’ve included the picture below and you can find the original here. The original is from the New York Times, 3rd April, 1933. Whatever happened to … Continue reading
Working With Pay Pals – Relationships versus Rewards?
I read a quick review of “Working With Pay Pals” on the HBS Working Knowledge site. While the message isn’t exactly earth shattering, the value people place on their relationships in comparison to their pay was refreshing. “The things that … Continue reading
Confident Networking for Career Success and Satisfaction
I took a call recently from Stuart Lindenfield who was kind enough to let me know about the imminent publication of his first book, “Confident Networking for Career Success and Satisfaction” (hopefully these Google and Amazon links will be up … Continue reading
