Monthly Archives: February 2010

The Virtual Office of Self-Selected Colleagues

Many of you know that I spent a few days in bed during the early part of this week with what was either flu, or the cold from hell. Yes, I did a little blog reading and emailing, but by and large I didn’t work and was away from social media. In fact, I set…

Up in the Air: food for thought for New Work Pioneers?

It was Cali Williams Yost across at Work+Life Fit who inspired me to go see Up in the Air recently. Even so, I hadn’t expected there to have been quite so much rich material for my New Work Pioneer thinking as I found. I hope you’ve seen the film – if not, you must! Meantime,…

New Work Pioneers Use Crises As Opportunities For Change

People looking for a more meaningful relationship with whatever work they do, use redundancy, burn-out and breakdown as opportunities for significant personal change. Rather than allowing these crises to derail or depress them, they choose to see them as catalysts for taking their lives and work forward in a more conscious direction.

How am I doing?

So, last week I took myself off to do a review of my blog business. Any excuse for another trip to Costa, right?! As you might remember from my Upping the ante in 2010 post, I’ve set myself some pretty ambitious targets and I thought I’d share with you how things are going. Posts One…

The Silent Rise of the New Work Pioneer

Did you see Get Ready to be a Change Maker by Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich over at the Harvard Business Review this week? The article talks about recent economic history, how we’ve cycled through agricultural, industrial and technological revolutions and are now on the cusp of another change again. In their words: “We are…