10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
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wall street journal has a great article today on solo success. It starts – “welcome to the age of going solo”.
4 (not new) thoughts but some good advice and experience.
think long term
join a network
have your own space
think like an entrepreneur
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Some good corporate advice here from Dan Schawbel. How to brand yourself without alienating your company.
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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, [...]
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The CBI says the recession has become the catalyst for a “new era in business”. The study by the employers’ group identifies four key areas of UK business including more flexible workforces. ” A more flexible workforce should evolve with some firms that might mean a smaller core workforce and a larger, so-called flexiforce.” The Shape of [...]
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An interesting article by Shefali Rekhi reports work from researchers in life expectancy at the Ageing Research Centre of the University of Southern Denmark who are calling for a massive change in how we look at work. They point out current work practices requiring people to work five days a week, eight hours or more [...]
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Girls should be ‘realistic’ about careers and motherhood – schools group head
This article in the Guardian has caused a bit of a storm. 230 comments and counting….
Teenage girls need to be taught a heavy dose of realism – that it may not be possible to be a perfect mother and a career woman, the president [...]
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Reading a post this morning from Gretchen Rubin’s blog on happiness restimulated for me discussions that Katie and I have had about energy levels. In the book we talk about having to possess high energy levels to be a successful portfolio worker and that we were both blessed with such high levels that we can, [...]
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Choices: I have them. I don’t have to work 9-5 with one company.
Responsibility: I take responsibility for my career.
Environment: work has changed forever – it’s not going back.
Assess: motivated skills (what I am good at & motivated to do)*
Talk: to others about your MS
Energy: to take action – are you a driller or filler?
Motivated [...]
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I read an interesting article this morning from the Times Online which in essence talks about people living on the Isle of Lewis having portfolio lives and blending work and life. This reminded me of quotation from Hugh MacLoud that we use in our new book in which he describes his families traditional life [...]
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We have already talked about how we are emphasizing work life blend rather than work life balance so imagine my delight today in coming across a quotation from the Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu:
“The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and [...]
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