People don't burn out because they're trying to solve problems. People burn out because they've been trying to solve the same problem over and over and over. - Susan Scott
Category Archives: Happy At Work
How to be happy at work
Book review: The living company
I always thought that the really big companies were immortal. That once an organization attained a certain size, it would last forever, barring some catastrophic event or weird fluke. But it turns out, that the average life span of Fortune 500 companies is under 50 years!
Arie de Geus pioneered a study at Shell that uncovered … Continue Reading ››
Po Bronson: What Should I Do with My Life?
Po Bronson (the author of "The nudist on the late shift") takes on the most fundamental question "What Should I Do with My Life?" in his new book. There's an article on it in Fast Company, and it's excellent stuff.
Here's a teaser:
Instead of focusing on what's next, let's get … Continue Reading ››
Here's a teaser:
Instead of focusing on what's next, let's get … Continue Reading ››
Anger management
There's a new series on TV2 about anger management. It turns out that in most cases where we danes are hopping mad inside, we try hard to maintain a calm exterior.
Which got me thinking: Might this also be going on at work..?
The most interesting part of the show is danes being … Continue Reading ››
Which got me thinking: Might this also be going on at work..?
The most interesting part of the show is danes being … Continue Reading ››
Book review: The fifth discipline fieldbook
The fifth discipline by Peter Senge is probably the most influential book on learning organizations. It laid the theoretical groundwork for creating learning organizations by defining five essential skills: Systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision and team learning.
The Fifth discipline fieldbook follows up on the theory, and offers a wealth of … Continue Reading ››
Book review: Change
When and how do people change? And when do they get stuck in situations and problems that seem hopeless? This is the focus of this book, Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution.
The book is based on the authors' experiences with brief therapy. Unlike traditional psychotherapy, which tries to uncover the "deeper" causes … Continue Reading ››
Exercise
Check out this quote from an article in Fast Company:
A nine-month study of 80 executives found that those who worked out regularly improved their fitness by 22% and demonstrated a 70% improvement in their ability to make complex decisions as compared with non-exercisers.A couple of days ago, there was a doctor on TV talking … Continue Reading ››
Book review: Birth of the Chaordic Age
This is one of Dee Hock's favourite tricks to play on an audience. "How many of you recognize this?" he asks, holding out his own Visa card. Every hand in the room goes up. "Now," Hock says, "how many of you can tell me who owns it, where it's headquartered, how it's governed, or where … Continue Reading ››
Book review: An unused intelligence
There are many different theories about learning, but not a single one of them states, that the best way to learn, is to sit passively on a chair, while a teacher talks about the subject in question. No theory ever in the history of the world has claimed it, and yet this is how schools, … Continue Reading ››
Book review: The power of spirit
Harrison Owen is the inventor of Open Space Technology, the most exciting and productive way of meeting with other people that I know of. In The power of spirit, how organizations transfrom he describes what an organization might look like, if it lived by the open space principles. And let me … Continue Reading ››