10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
Great piece in Fast Company magazine firstly talking about ‘broken tile syndrome’ – read it and see. And then about the fact that most of us are much more skilled in complaining than we are at giving positive feedback.
As portfolio workers often moving in and out of organisations we have great opportunities of ‘catching people [...]
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I have just finished listening to Derek Sivers’ latest book “Anything You Want” and at just over 1.5 hrs, its a really great listen. He talks about how he set up a independent music site called CD Baby and sold it in 2008 for $22m. But its not really about the money – more about [...]
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Do you feel like these people?
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My prescription for a daily dose of happiness….
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I always find something of value in looking at Hannah Morgan’s blog and this morning she was making a reference to a remark that Dick Bolles (he of Parachute fame) made about hope. She paraphrases it as
“When you have no options you have no HOPE. Show people their options and you can see their HOPE.” [...]
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Mike Pegg as always has some great thoughts on continuously creating and developing work that is satisfying.
Stage one is your ‘seed corn’. You plant lots of seeds and explore many possibilities. Some seeds grow and people show interest. You also put extra effort into the projects you find stimulating.
Stage two is ‘satisfying work’. You [...]
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In our book we have a whole chapter on this crucial topic and an exercise (we call them Can Do’s) to help you identify your key values. We recently came across another way of analysing your results from this exercise by Rebecca Nestor. This took me back to research techniques that [...]
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Ahh how to find the Holy Grail…..Mike Pegg as ever offers some great thoughts and practical solutions.
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Katie and I are both great enthusiasts for Ken Robinson’s work and presentations and his writing. Katie interviewed him for this website last year. He has messages for all of us but we believe is especially appropriate to portfolio working. Portfolio workers usually choose this career pattern as it enables them to engage with most [...]
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In our book we emphasise the importance of knowing your values and your motivated skills. These are both of course related to meaning and I was fascinated to come across this 1972 clip of Victor Frankl with a barnstorming display on why the search for meaning is central to each of us.
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