It is not innovation that matters, it is agreement. And we might need innovation to reach agreement.
I would be more productive if I had a different boss?
|
Response |
Percentage |
|
No |
15.91 % |
|
Yes |
40.91 % |
|
Don’t Know |
9.09 % |
|
Sometimes I feel that way |
27.27 % |
|
Do not Care |
2.27 % |
|
N/A |
4.55 % |
Interesting data from Zimbabwe. Only 1 out of 50 do not care whether or not they would be more productive with another boss.
I stumbled this site. You can look your dreams, tag them, and look at similar dreams from others.
Excellent site to put your anxieties and dreams in perspective.
UPDATE: This is also an example of crowd-sourced psychology, semantic web and visualization.
For selling, persuading and simple negotiation, have a look at changingminds for a useful miscellany of tips and techniques.
The psychologist to turn to when we have to lead from the front in times is Karl Weick who gives us the SIR COPE acronym.
I think I might spill my drink over someone who actually spouted an elevator speech at me, but what do we say when someone asks us “What do we do?”
Can you stand up in front of 1000 people and state your personal elevator speech in 20 seconds?
There is a program about restaurants and casinos on Radio 4 at the minute. It seems chefs in casinos are given every resource and facility to provide better food and service than their competitors.
I wonder how many industries could make the same claim?
May 2017: How many businesses seriously consult their in-house experts about what they can do to advance the collective goal? How many businesses are running a strategic-game at all?
To rephrase this in terms of contemporary work & organizational psychology research, how many jobs are the most pressing concerns felt by employees to be their specific contribution to the strategic effort?
The logic of entrepreneurship. Is this a term to watch?
UPDATE 2011 (four years since my first post): Effectuation has become a bigger deal. It’s even in Wikipedia now.
UPDATE: Work seems to be going on at this website. They even have a unconference of sorts in December 2009. [which website?]
The papers on this site explain well the tough concept of “Ready Fire Aim”. From these papers, its possible to translate the concepts of positive psychology and positive organizational scholarship into business practice.
It is also possible to argue logically for a strategic approach based on the level of predictability in the environment.
StumbleUpon kindly threw up this freeform poem of Shel Silverstein. I haven’t read him before. I particularly like What If as a poem for the incorrigibly anxious, and God’s Wheel, for the incorrigibly stable!
Last night, while I lay thinking here,
some What ifs crawled inside my ear
and pranced and partied all night long
and sang their same old What if song:
What if I’m dumb in school?
What if they’ve closed the swimming pool?
What if I get beat up?
What if there’s poison in my cup?
What if I start to cry?
What if I get sick and die?
What if I flunk that test?
What if green hair grows on my chest?
What if nobody likes me?
What if a bolt of lightning strikes me?
What if I don’t grow tall?
What if my head starts getting smaller?
What if the fish won’t bite?
What if the wind tears up my kite?
What if they start a war?
What if my parents get divorced?
What if the bus is late?
What if my teeth don’t grow in straight?
What if I tear my pants?
What if I never learn to dance?
Everything seems well, and then
the night time What ifs strike again!
GOD says to me with a kind
of smile, “Hey how would you like
to be God awhile
And steer the world?”
“Okay,” says I, “I’ll give it a try.Where do I set?
How much do I get?
What time is lunch?
When can I quit?””Gimme back that wheel,” says GOD.
“I don’t think you’re quite ready YET.”
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.
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.