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Check my facts on Opportunity UK
Posted by: Jo Jordan on: March 16, 2009
Employment opportunities in the UK
Today, Twitterers are retweeting BBC’s report that TUC says 60 people are chasing every job in the south, and elsewhere in UK, each job is chased by 10 people. Is this true? And if it true, is it unusual?
I wonder if Andy at SironConsulting a leading recruitment agency would make a [...]
3 questions to head-off burnout
Posted by: Jo Jordan on: March 13, 2009
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Overtired and babbling like a three year old?
Have you every felt so tired that you know your performance is impaired and that you really should take a break? I don’t mean go home at a reasonable time. I mean take a very long holiday?
Of course many professions build breaks into [...]
Wikis
Posted by: Jo Jordan on: February 19, 2009
I am going to start adding links to my wikis here.
This was supposed to be a page. Sorry.
4 hour work week?
Posted by: Jo Jordan on: December 9, 2008
- In: SHRM| goal setting| howto| psychology
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On Sunday night, Barack Obama put some numbers to Harold Macmillan’s pithy saying: Events, dear boy, events. Obama’s numbers are 10% agenda and 90% circumstances.
What if we combine Obama’s numbers with Thomas Edison’s: genius is 1% inspiration and 90% perspiration?
90%
Circumstances
0,9%
89,1%
10% Agenda
0,1%
9,9%
1%
Inspiration
99%
Perspiration
Obama x Edison
I’m a great believer in Kurt Lewin’s adage: that there is nothing as [...]
Leadership parables
Posted by: Jo Jordan on: November 15, 2008
Weekend special. Leadership from the top or from the bottom?
Good pic for a lecture on leadership and organizational design.
Customized shoes by Van.
For those mulling over HR and the recession
Have we organized the work in the organization so every person on the edge can use their skills, and the situations that arise in their patch, to [...]
Simultaneity: The future is an arrow that arrives at our feet
Posted by: Jo Jordan on: August 8, 2008
Yesterday, I posted on my difficulty explaining the simultaneity principle in positive organizational scholarship and extrapolating the implications for organizational design. If you can help me, please do!
Today, I followed up a review about a book on New Zealand history in The Economist. I’ve extracted this quote wholesale:
“Christina Thompson is a New Englander from a [...]
4 steps to defining the work of a positive, playful, work psychologist!
Posted by: Jo Jordan on: June 30, 2008
Positive psychology x new media x work
It is quite arbitrary, of course, to sum up a blog at the end of each month, but it is also quite useful and I am astounded again by the ground I have covered and the people I have met.
The high point for me has been finding Jane McGonigal’s [...]
Vocabulary of positive psychology
Posted by: Jo Jordan on: June 17, 2008
Image by foghornleg90 via Flickr
A good article here on savoring and a list of actions and the corresponding emotion we feel.
What did we take the time to marvel at today and did we feel awe?
What did we stop to give thanks for and did we feel gratitude?
Did we have five minutes to bask in a [...]
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