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Meaningful Work: A Basic Human Need - Head Heart and Bottom Line
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Head, Heart and Bottom Line. Welcome to the Conversation. For most of us, however, it’s a sin to admit this. If you have ambitions, or even want to seem to have ambitions, it’s compulsory to say you love your work no, better, be “passionate” about it. Hence the heartbreaking charm of a job application I once saw, where the young person claimed to be “passionate about filing”. Does it have to be this cruel? It’s cruel precisely because work matters, isn’t it? But that can’t be right, can it?
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Company Directors' Conference 2012
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Head, Heart and Bottom Line. Welcome to the Conversation. Company Directors’ Conference 2012. In Darwin, in May 2012, the Australian Institute of Company Directors national conference showed the tide running quite the other way. In forum after forum, the feeling was that:. A) leadership of our society was too big a matter to leave to government, and. B) business has a responsibility, and would step up to it. Why does it matter to directors? Their companies to step up to this broader agenda. Because w...
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Slow Reading - texts to ponder - Head Heart and Bottom Line
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Head, Heart and Bottom Line. Welcome to the Conversation. The Benedictine monks have a practice of taking an important text, and deliberately reading it slowly, to extract and ponder the layers of meaning. It’s the opposite of speed reading. My texts are not theirs, but I like the idea. Some things ought to be read fast, some not at all, and some slowly. Here are some books that I have found to be worth slow(ish) reading. Leadership for the Disillusioned. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. John Kab...
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The Singularity — Head, Heart and Bottom Line
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Head, Heart and Bottom Line. Welcome to the Conversation. What’s the Singularity? Our most complex and broadly useful artifacts, computers, have been getting rapidly more and more powerful, and more ubiquitous. The natural, but perhaps not the most important, question is: What would that mean for us? Prepare for what, exactly, and how, exactly? But why should AI not come to rival and then surpass human brainpower? Because it’s not headed that way. Of course computers are doing some things bette...If anyt...
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The unexamined life is not fit for a human to live
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Head, Heart and Bottom Line. Welcome to the Conversation. I also know that I’m not alone in finding that reflection on how I (and we) live, how we spend this precious life, really matters. Of course this reflection is not a substitute for action, or a way of delaying it. It’s all about. Action deliberately. And of course this is not just an amusing pastime it’s as real as it gets. That’s what I think. You? This entry was posted in Objections. December 27, 2013. Micromanagement is an Ethical Issue.
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Micromanagement, it IS evil - Head, Heart and Bottom Line
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Head, Heart and Bottom Line. Welcome to the Conversation. Micromanagement is an Ethical Issue. Micromanagement is not just a waste and an annoyance. It is ethically wrong. I know these are strong words. I have come to them from so often seeing the harm done, and seeing the pervasive tolerance of so destructive a habit. But back to basics for a moment. Stephen Covey (the. To define an area of stewardship and the results needed from it, and you have to communicate carefully to delegate stewardship. The...
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What I Do — Head, Heart and Bottom Line
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Head, Heart and Bottom Line. Welcome to the Conversation. I’m an independent company director, board advisor and management consultant. I love to see businesses and their leaders grow, succeed and excel themselves. I trade under the name Upland Consulting: http:/ www.upland.com.au. My CV is here on LinkedIn: http:/ au.linkedin.com/in/iainmassey. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. The Shadow of Success. Micromanagement is an Ethical Issue.
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Wrong Metaphor? Companies as Machines - Head Heart and Bottom Line
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Head, Heart and Bottom Line. Welcome to the Conversation. 8220;Fix”, “adjust”, “restructure”, “function”, “process”, “re-engineer”, “well-oiled”. Companies are not machines. But we managers keep treating them as though they were. It’s not often stated, or even consciously thought, but both our reflex actions and our cognitive processes respond to issues in companies very much as though they were issues in a mechanism. Something’s broken, let’s find the problem and fix it. For now though, I think the usua...
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Conversations: compatible, complementary, even contradictory
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Head, Heart and Bottom Line. Welcome to the Conversation. These are web sites or other virtual communities where conversations are happening that I find compatible, related, or maybe opposed but relevant to this one. What they have in common is thoughtful attention to the human dimension of work and business. Where they are redesigning work so it works for people. A very readable blog with a resident cartoonist. The Appreciative Inquiry Commons. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Required fields are marked *.
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