10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
An interesting article in the London Evening Standard recently highlights a new agency set up by women for women who are looking for part time work. Women Like Us is not just a recruitment operation for would be part time female workers but focuses on helping employers ” who value talent more than round-the-clock availability. [...]
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I just loved a letter to the Financial Times from Jim Sanders in the US in which he states that “Concepts such as portfolio careers, artfully deconstructed jeans, deconstructed jackets, retro T-shirts and male moisturisers hint at a new atmosphere of muddle”.
To my knowledge I don’t own anything ‘deconstructed’ other than possibly a cat. Of [...]
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Increasingly my simplistic answer to this is ‘NO’. Career planning seems to be an oxymoron.
Career surfing might be a better metaphor. You never know what the weather is going to be like, it changes while you are surfing, its sometimes difficult to stay upright and you can’t guarantee your direction or speed. And sometimes you [...]
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…very different from what it was. Katie in her last posting referred to the proposal to institute a 21 hour work week which would spread existing employment further and enable a better life blend for people. That is one possibility. There are many more and all relate to the notion that the Industrial Era of [...]
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Seth Godin never fails to stimulate – even if you disagree. I don’t know about you but I am getting heartily fed up of negative media, scared politicians and whining individuals (”its all doom!” “We’re all going to die!”) Well at least the latter is true. Crazy times in history have always been times that [...]
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I was stimulated to post something on this topic as I give many talks on the future of work as well as on portfolio careers. Politicians are rarely in the vanguard when it comes to recognising social change and listening to all the parties at their conference jamborees once again we hear the pleas for [...]
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Lynda’s new book, The Shift. from Hot Spots Movement on Vimeo.
Those of you know who know me or know of me will have seen my oneliner which I believe sums up the driving force behind much of the work that I have done in my life so far.
“Helping people become architects of their own future”.
I [...]
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Just came across a superb quotation from the novelist James Michener which beautifully sums up for me what a portfolio career is all about and indeed the desirable future of work:
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his [...]
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