It is not innovation that matters, it is agreement. And we might need innovation to reach agreement.
Yesterday, The Independent published its counter to the Rich List: the Happy List.
Did I miss the happy workplaces? Are work and happiness antithetical?
I am dreaming of a sandwich where the filling appreciates the bread and the bread celebrates the filling.
Hat-tip: Sally. Thank you.
UPDATE: David Whyte is a English poet who now resides in Washington, USA. Marine biologist, NGO worker and poet, David Whyte is a resource for anyone who is interested the meaning of work in our time. He writes on our lost sense of meaning and how to recover it by reaching out to all that is around us.
His books and CD’s are available on Amazon.
This link is to one of his rare appearances on YouTube.
Leave a CommentI love flow. I know some people who think it is great to be in flow, or in the zone, for half-an-hour a day. I am a flow junkie. I go for all 24 hours counting a good sleep as good flow.
But there is something I love more.
That is the rush when you have a crystal clear idea that you know will work and that is, in that instant, so obvious.
What is the name for that?
I know Peter Gollwitzer, the psychologist calls it “crossing the rubicon” – moving from wish to intent.
This corporate anthropologist, studies the use of mobile phones by poor people and travels around the world studying the way phones are used.
Why don’t we study flow a lot more than we do?
Why don’t we study people at work they way this guy studies phones?
Why aren’t we interested in why and when work is blissful and fun?
Why are aren’t we interested in making jobs as enjoyable as Nokia tries to make its phones?
I could do spend all day trying to make work fun and never get tired of it!! Could you? Do you?
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