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Optimal living
Many people struggle to obtain what could be called optimal living. What is optimal living? Some would consider it working at what you love to do. The problem for many is working at something tha… more →
Coach with Heart
Coffee and work
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wrote 5 months ago: The most important machine in my office suite Coffee and work. Work and coffee. David Crookes, in a … more →
Fancy internship vs. "summer job"?
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wrote 5 months ago: Say you’re a young college student, weighing your options for the summer. Assuming you have so … more →
Do credibility and innovation mix?
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wrote 8 months ago: Is is possible to have both credibility with the Establishment and freedom to innovate? Seth Godin c … more →
"Should I stay or should I go?" Career insights from Seth Godin and The Clash
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wrote 8 months ago: When should you hang in there, and when should you pursue an exit strategy? This question confronts … more →
How lousy organizations treat institutional history
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wrote 8 months ago: How do lousy organizations treat their own institutional history? In other words, how do they treat … more →
From Boston to Berlin: Watching work and workers
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wrote 10 months ago: The law and mental health conference that has brought me to Berlin starts in earnest on Monday. In t … more →
Erase and forget: "Unpersons" and institutional memory
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wrote 1 year ago: Last week I referenced the Orwellian concept of unpersons, those (in the words of Wikipedia) “ … more →
Work on TV: Cop dramas
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wrote 1 year ago: I love good cop dramas on TV, not only for their entertainment value, but also because they do a gre … more →
Work cultures: On airplane lavatories, turbulence, and pilots
wrote 1 year ago: When you’re flying and the captain makes an announcement over the PA system, doesn’t he … more →
"Work is broken" (Can we fix it and remake it?)
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wrote 1 year ago: Work is broken. This line was invoked by several speakers during opening sessions of the annual meet … more →
Working in a blizzard
wrote 1 year ago: The first big blizzard of the season has hit the east coast, and it means very different things to f … more →
So you want to be a writer?
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wrote 1 year ago: High on the list of dream jobs for literary and intellectual types is that of being a successful wri … more →
The blogosphere on work: August 2010
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wrote 1 year ago: Live from the blogosphere: Kevin Kennemer writes personally about job loss, Douglas LaBier shares id … more →
The meaning of Steven Slater
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wrote 1 year ago: Talk about instant celebrity! JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater has become a folk hero among w … more →
JetBlue flight attendant got mad as hell and made a dramatic exit
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wrote 1 year ago: Steven Slater, a JetBlue flight attendant with 28 years in the industry, finally got so fed up after … more →
How we bash every vocation
wrote 1 year ago: “Oh those lawyers…” “Oh those CEOs…” “Oh those contractors … more →
Will E-Readers Change the Way We Work?
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wrote 1 year ago: This morning NPR featured a news segment by Wendy Kaufman about Amazon’s reported sales of its … more →
NPR on work-life balance and shift work: Not bad, but what about unions?
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wrote 2 years ago: National Public Radio’s Jennifer Ludden just concluded her very good three-part series on work … more →
Thinking about retail work: Working behind the counter
wrote 2 years ago: Traveling causes me to think a lot about the experience of working in the service sector. As someone … more →
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