Our friend Bruce Lynn from Dynamic Work sent this to me recently. Some very interesting thoughts on happiness via portfolio careers…
I thought of an extension to the zoo analogy today after a customer meeting. In the wild, you are prized for your speed and strength. In the zoo, you are prized for being well groomed, [...]
Barrie recently posted about the F word(s) flexibility, fulfillment and freedom – some of the benefits of a portfolio career. Scott Adams of Dilbert fame talks about a similar thought around CHOICE. He suggests that if a genie could grant us our perfect work/life blend BUT the genie would do the scheduling – would we say yes? This [...]
Sonja Lyubomirsky has just published a book on happiness adding to the growing mountain of work in this area. It is a subject that often comes up when I talk about Portfolio Careers with people. Those who have them say they could not be happy with anything else and those without them cannot imagine [...]
There are many – and we will be visiting them from time to time but certainly one is that because we are always juggling business cards, co-ordinating our daily lives, managing the daily lives of others in our family so that all the pieces are in place we sometimes miss out on the the crucial [...]