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I have just finished a 3 day workshop (run over 3 weeks) conducted (facilitated?) by Jeff Dutton from Lateral Learning Systems.
Just as important as the things I learned, was learning the things I don't know!
Jeff introduced me to the work of Bob Dick and AREOL.
This article in Fast Company is a fable explaining the meaning and worth of current popular business management fables.
Will make you smile!
This article by Stephen Gallagher makes some valid observations about professionals in transition:
"Instead of viewing retirement as an end-point in itself, we need to begin thinking of retirement as a series of developmental steps taken by individuals on an ongoing basis. Retirement today needs to be seen as more a journey than a destination. In order to more effectively participate in this journey, retirees need to learn new skills and competencies well before they begin their retirement experience...
Today's more highly educated, accomplished, and affluent pre-retirees are simply looking to find more personal PURPOSE in their lives than they ever had before. They want something new, something different, perhaps something novel, and certainly something interesting at deep personal levels."
Refreshing to read this article in Law Practice Management by Rick Klau and Erik Heels on their own personal technology habits.
Even the "experts" like to keep paper based systems if they work.
I retired as a partner of Gilshenan & Luton on 30 June. I have agreed to remain as a part-time consultant for a while.
In the meantime I am working on my new incarnation as Jacobson Consulting.
On 12 July, ABC Radio National had a special talkback session on blogging. You can listen to it using Real Player.
John Quiggin and Tim Blair were interviewed and, amongst others, Instapundit was mentioned. It focussed on the political aspects.
Unfortunately there was no mention of RSS or aggregators. Or blawgs.
Via The Occupational adventure comes a comment on Herminia Ibarra's book, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career from the point of facing your fear.
A 44 year old man was grappling with the struggle between a desire for safety and security and a longing to follow his passion. He ended up looking at things from the perspective of two questions, each posed to himself as a 75 year old looking back on his situation now. If he tried something new, could the 75 year old cope with the failure of the 44 year old in the new venture? If he did not take the risk at 44, how would the 75 year old feel?
John Clark's latest ezine talks about what drives high achievers and how they value status. He refers to Linda Breen Pierce's book Choosing Simplicity.
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