10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
If you have read our book you might recall this illustration of someone who enjoys what we call a serial career pattern. This is a person who no matter how well they are doing and how much they have enjoyed their work every 5,6 or 7 years get bored and in need of a new [...]
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There is always another way to do the work, life, spirit, money, family thing….
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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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I know a few people, a very few people, who enjoy commuting as it gives them time to prepare for the day or conversely time to dump it on the way home. Personally my very first job in London with the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) involved a 20 minute walk. I loved this [...]
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Love this piece from Bill Jensen. He says “I recently had the opportunity to interview Yao Huang, who’s been named one of the top 25 women driving New York’s tech scene. I encourage you to watch her video. Lots of wisdom packed into 8 mins. About half-way thru she describes major life discoveries from her [...]
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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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A great infographic courtesy of my friend Steve Clayton says a lot about the new world of work and our place in it. Do you recognise yourself at all?
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In our book we talk of many attractions and mostly on the positive side. However, occasionally we see evidence which suggests that there are some negative pushes as well, The Charted Management Institute (CMI) in a recent survey of 2,000 employees found that 55% don’t think their manager is up to the job. Perhaps even [...]
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Most portfolio workers are also digital natives and live and work in a digital world more than most. It is interesting therefore to get Richard Harper’s take on this topic. Richard is a principal researcher at Microsoft. Note in particular his view that future communication will rely more than ever on the written word.
Interview with [...]
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Portfolio people meet up in London, Monday 13th June. A chance to meet and chat with people who share your workstyle.
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