Category Archives: Authenticity

The Great Work Life Balance Hoax

We all use the term "work life balance" to talk about a major challenging phenomenon. But are you thinking about it in the same way as me? Corporate Concept The term emerged in the 1990s, coined by corporations responding to the challenge of increasing workplace ...

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The Last Summer Holiday You’ll Need?

Did you see the recent research that reckoned it takes only two days back at work for all of the benefits of being on holiday to disappear? How sad is that? Still, it echoes a lot of what I hear and see around me: people completely frazzled ahead of the school holidays, ...

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Getting Ahead By Not Being A Cliché

Meet Eduard Ezeanu. A regular commentor here on the blog, today he's giving us some fabulous, tangible advice on how we can be extraordinary. One thing which I find amusing is how most people expect to get out of the ordinary success and satisfaction in their careers, without doing or being themselves out ...

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The Purpose Of Doom And Gloom

I've had a curious experience this week that I wanted to share. It was all the more surprising as I'd just spent some deeply happy days unplugging and enjoying the successes of the first half of the year. And back ...

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What I Learned From My Broadband Blackout

I had the realisation this week that I'd started to see reliable high speed broadband as a basic human need. It came in the midst of a 72 hour period during which I had none. I didn't vote for Mr Cameron, but ...

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Change Your Career While Keeping Your Job

Today I'm delighted to introduce you to Marc Winitz, who's a Vice President of Sales and Business Development for a US based information technology company. His thinking about work, which he captures in this fascinating article, turns some of the accepted ...

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Here’s How New Work Pioneers Navigate Their Journey

There's a very real community of people choosing to rewrite the rules of their professional and personal lives. For some that means leaving the corporation to design their own lifestyle. For others it's about evolving a way of being that allows them to ...

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Deviation From The Norm – My Different Kind Of Work

Today I'm delighted to welcome Linda Wolf. Linda writes Insanely Serene, a blog devoted to her passion for peace of mind and serenity. Through her blog, she offers practical suggestions for moving from low self-esteem to powerful ...

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Split Work-Life Personality? Join The Club!

"The schism, the disconnect, that the traditional model of work represents seems neither physically, emotionally nor spiritually healthy. Also, not sustainable. Behavior has to line up with values." Chrysula Winegar, who wrote the above words, has recently ...

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Paving Your Own Path

When I asked Jen Smith to write for me a few weeks ago, she could not have known that I was thinking of running an occasional series of guest posts, profiling people who are finding their own "different kind of ...

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