David Whyte : Born in Yorkshire, of Irish descent, David Whyte is a marine biologist, NGO worker, turned poet who writes about our relationship with work
He is a little guarded about his poetry but you can find odd snippets on the web. If you haven’t encountered his work, I recommend you buy his CD, Midlife and the Great Unknown.
I’ve added a link to his wide range of works on Amazon and listed other posts on this blog related to his work.
LINKS TO OTHER POSTS ON THIS BLOG:
How our earlier training as psychologists inhibits our understanding of positive psychology
Tough concepts in positive psychology: Whose competence is being tested in an interview
Deciding what to do is the hard part. Doing it is the easy part
Putting Humpty back together again is the psychologist’s challenge
Is this a new poem by David Whyte?
Distance lends enchantment to the view
Consider your career shift this weekend!
5 poetic steps for exiting a Catch 22!
5 point comparison of Hero’s Journey, Appreciative Inquiry, and Positive Psychology
4 steps to defining the work of a positive, playful, work psychologist!
Is engendering curiosity a pertinent goal for positive psychology?
The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness
Psychologists, 2009AD, recession, life
Frazzled? Get a one line job description
Where will you be when this recession ends?
We do know how to deal with the unknown
Poets advice for surviving the financial crisis
From anger to effective action
3 steps when goals seem out of our reach
UPDATE: I’m happy to add some downloads here linking the poetry, particularly of David Whyte, to contemporary management. Removed.
I am currently reading The Heart Aroused. I really recommend it as a an overview of modern views on management. If you mean to get into positive organizational scholarship or positive psychology or the Edge Economy and networked competing supply chains, crowd-sourced solutions and cognitive surplus, you need to read this book.