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A plea for art as vocation and artists as leaders

David Yamada wrote 3 months ago: Kayhan Irani What if our society made more room for artistic expression as a form of vocation and re … more →

Tags: Career Planning, Creativity and Innovation, Labors of Love, strategies for change

Does your organization nurture growth-fostering relationships?4 comments

David Yamada wrote 5 months ago: Last week’s annual workshop of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) Network in … more →

Tags: dignity at work, Psychology and Work, organizational justice, Psychology at Work

Some real "job killers": Executive salaries, bullying managers, health care costs, and demanding stockholders5 comments

David Yamada wrote 6 months ago: The Chamber of Commerce and other powerful trade organizations are fond of using the term “job … more →

Tags: Workplace Bullying, business ethics, Economics, Labor Market, Social Responsibility, Compensation

Freelance revolution and freelance realities4 comments

David Yamada wrote 8 months ago: Is the independent, freelance sector our next great job generator and a path to living the dream? Fr … more →

Tags: Career Planning, Economics, Future of the workplace

New jobs, new economy: Envisioning better ways to work and earn a living2 comments

David Yamada wrote 9 months ago: Bravo to YES! magazine, whose Fall issue (link here) is devoted to examining how we can create new j … more →

Tags: Career Planning, Economics, Labor Market, Meaningful Work, Social Responsibility, strategies for change, Personal Finances

Possibilities2 comments

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: For those dealing with a layoff or recovering from a job where they were bullied or harassed, there … more →

Tags: Workplace Bullying, Career Planning, learning about work, Entrepreneurship

"Work is broken" (Can we fix it and remake it?)6 comments

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: Work is broken. This line was invoked by several speakers during opening sessions of the annual meet … more →

Tags: Workplace Bullying, Psychology and Work, Management practices, Labor Unions, Career Planning, Employment and Labor Law, Essay Posts, Economics, Future of the workplace

Let's focus on the "largeness of our lives"

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: Tara Lohan, in a piece for Alternet (link here) searches for a silver lining in the wreckage of the … more →

Tags: Economics, Personal Finances, Work Life Balance

Keys to happiness at work?3 comments

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: In 2009, Australian psychologist Timothy Sharp conducted an informal survey that asked a simple ques … more →

Tags: Psychology and Work, Management practices, business ethics, organizational justice, happiness, Psychology at Work

Website of the Week: Richard Bolles and "Parachute"

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: Richard Bolles and What Color Is Your Parachute? have been around so long that it’s easy to ta … more →

Tags: Career Planning, Websites of the Week, Labor Market

What's your Plan B?1 comment

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: A late friend once told me that everyone should have a “Plan B.” By that he meant, have … more →

Tags: Career Planning, Economics, Education and Learning

Websites of the Week: Freelancers Union and YES! magazine

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: If you’ve been following this blog in recent weeks, you may have picked up on my sense that we … more →

Tags: Career Planning, Websites of the Week, Economics, Future of the workplace

Connecting two dots of the Great Recession

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday’s news items on Boston.com, the website of the Boston Globe, invited some connect-th … more →

Tags: Economics, Labor Market

How we bash every vocation

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: “Oh those lawyers…” “Oh those CEOs…” “Oh those contractors … more →

Tags: business ethics, Career Planning, learning about work, Meaningful Work, experience of work

When "heart, will, and mind are on the same page"2 comments

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: For many years, University of Chicago psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has been urging us to see … more →

Tags: Psychology and Work, Career Planning, Meaningful Work, Avocations, Psychology at Work

Nursing as a Calling: Aspirations and Realities2 comments

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: Let’s take a few minutes to consider the profession of nursing and working conditions that fac … more →

Tags: Career Planning, Employment and Labor Law, Essay Posts, Meaningful Work, Health Care

"I'll Write For Free!" (via Minding the Workplace)

Drew wrote 1 year ago: I, however, will not, except on my blogs. I grew up with the assumption that if you could write well … more →

Tags: Re-Blog, Career Planning, work and technology, Labor Market, Avocations

"I'll Write For Free!" (via Minding the Workplace)

Drew wrote 1 year ago: I, however, will not, except on my blogs. I grew up with the assumption that if you could write well … more →

Tags: Re-Blog, Career Planning, work and technology, Labor Market, Avocations

"I'll write for free!"1 comment

David Yamada wrote 1 year ago: I grew up with the assumption that if you could write well, you’d never be wanting for life … more →

Tags: Career Planning, work and technology, Labor Market, Avocations, Compensation, writing


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