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Transform your Career by shifting: Shift 3 From Narrowing Down To Being...
The FactoryShiftwork is the work we all have to do to manage, survive and thrive in the face of a world where Shift Happens. I’ve identified 11 shifts that we have to make (see here) and the first...
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Transform your Career by shifting: Shift 5 From Risk As Failure To Risk As...
The FactoryShiftwork is the work we have to do to manage, thrive and survive in a world where shift happens. I’ve identified 11 shifts that we have to make (see here), so far I’ve addressed the first...
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Transform your Career by Shifting: Shift 6 From Probabilities To Probable...
The FactoryShiftwork is the work we have to do to manage, thrive and survive in a world where shift happens. I’ve identified 11 shifts that we have to make (see here), so far I’ve addressed the first...
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Five ways to resoul your career
The FactoryFive ways to resoul your career What is the point? Why am I doing this? Who cares? Does it matter? As Poehnell & Amundson (2011) point out “Many have questions about who they are and...
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Finding Harmony in work: A strategy to re-soul your career
The FactoryHarmony: Finding Harmony in work: A strategy to re-soul your career In my earlier blog Resouling your career I defined harmony in the following terms: “Harmony is a joyful dance through and...
View ArticleNarrative the untold story – presentation by Jim Bright and Robert Pryor CDAA...
The FactoryHere are the slides of a paper given by Robert Pryor and myself at the Career Development Association of Australia International Conference, in Cairns, Qld, Australia, on April 27th 2011. It...
View ArticleResearching Chaotically Presentation by Robert Pryor & Jim Bright
The FactoryThis is a presentation given by Robert Pryor and Jim Bright at the Career Development Association International Conference, Cairns, QLD, April 29th 2011. It addresses some of the issues in...
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Transform your Career by shifting: Shift 7 From Goals, Roles And Routines To...
The FactoryShiftwork is the work we have to do to manage, thrive and survive in a world where shift happens. I’ve identified 11 shifts that we have to make (see here), so far I’ve addressed the first...
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Having the courage to live authentically on the edge of chaos
The FactoryThe most common way of dealing with uncertainty is to close our minds and limit our options and behaviors. The trouble is that the world and the people in it are uncertain, and our typical...
View ArticleJim Bright Keynote video clip on chaos, shift happening and spys in Ottawa
The FactoryThis is a 11 minute clip of my Keynote Know Change and No Change:how I learned to love chaos given to open the Cannexus Career Development Conference in Ottawa, January 2011. Tweet This...
View ArticleJim Bright talking change and chaos video from his Cannexus Keynote 2011
The FactoryHere is a five minute video of my Keynote “Know Change and No Change: how I learned to love Chaos” presented at the Cannexus Career Development Conference in January 2011 If you like it,...
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Is the Chaos Theory of Careers doing Practitioners out of a job?
The FactoryThe Chaos Theory of Careers says its all down to chance right? So why do you need a career practitioner if it is all chance? So the logic goes that gives rise to the question and title of...
View ArticleRead The Chaos Theory of Careers Chapter 1 for free here!
The FactoryRead the first chapter of my new book The Chaos Theory of Careers for free here: Tweet This PostThe FactoryThe Factory - Career Development Blog & Podcasts from Jim Bright, PhD, Bright...
View ArticleAn Amusing example of the Butterfly effect (non linearity) in Chaos Theory of...
The FactoryIn the Chaos Theory of Careers, non-linearity refers to that fact that sometimes very small acts can lead to huge responses down the line, or the opposite, that sometimes very large acts...
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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 8: From Informing To Informing And...
The FactoryShift: Transform your career by shifting: Shift 8: From Informing To Informing And Transforming What is easier – working with a person to understand the limits and biases in their thinking...
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The imperfect career and a gift from Brene Brown
The FactoryI got a gift from Brené Brown the other day. Actually you could call it a gift squared, because the gift was The Gifts of Imperfection, her popular and really very very good book. Brené,...
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had: Gen Y myths...
The FactoryRedundancy is generally a bad thing but there are plenty of people who should be made redundant without delay: Kim Jong Il of North Korea, and Omar Al Bashir of Sudan spring to mind. They...
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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 9: From Normative Thinking To...
The FactoryTransform your career by shifting: Shift 9: From Normative Thinking To Normative And Scalable Thinking When I was a child, I didn’t want to be with the other young kids in the shallow end of...
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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 10 – From Knowing In Advance To...
The FactoryHere is a spoiler alert – if you are likely to be going to the cinema or watching TV in the next while, you may want to skip the next paragraph. Rosebud was his sledge. They all did it....
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Make or Break Moments in Careers and Life
The FactoryMake or Break Moments in Careers and Life Are there moments in life that are make or break? In Chaos Theory of Careers Terms, tipping points, where everything changes? Can we predict them,...
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Is goal setting past its peak? Some new data.
The FactoryHow long has there been serious interest in goal setting? You might be forgiven for thinking it has always been a key approach to changing human behavior. However according to PsycInfo...
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Embracing Uncertainty in Life and Careers
The FactoryWhat does uncertainty mean to you? To many uncertainty is a threat to be avoided or overcome. To others it offers surprise and opportunity. For some it is both of these things depending...
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The Edge of Chaos Posters
The FactoryI want to share a resource I’ve been working on over the last week called the Edge of Chaos Posters. I’ve designed a couple of posters that try to illustrate the idea of the relationship...
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The Day my Dog became a Triangle
The FactoryThe Day my Dog became a Triangle Dogs are not triangles. Any fool knows this. They don’t even bother assessing this knowledge when they issue you with a dog license. So it was very...
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Life Creativity – Applying Beyond Personal Mastery® to Life Changes
The FactoryLife Creativity – Applying Beyond Personal Mastery® to Life Changes I want to share with you my model of Creativity that provides practical steps to enhance Life and Career changes. I will...
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Inspiration – the first step into creativity
The FactoryInspiration – the first step into creativity Inspiration is the starting point for creativity in the Beyond Personal Mastery® model. The inspiration step is all about getting ideas and...
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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 11 – From Trust As Control To Trust...
The FactoryTransform your career by shifting: Shift 11 – From Trust As Control To Trust As Faith There comes a point in all things that really matter in life when trying to exert control is not...
View ArticleThe role of parents in career development and thoughts on my father
The Factoryhere is a link to my column in the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers on parents and careers. The role of parents in career development is critical. Here I share some thoughts on the...
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The top 10 words of 2011 or of all time?
The FactoryLinkedIn report the top 10 clichés found on LinkedIn profiles in 2011 (see here). So how do these words stack up in terms of historic usage? Using a relatively unknown google research...
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Coaching Fractal Action for Personal Development
The FactoryWe get frustrated when we are unsure how to act, and feel disheartened when we voluntarily or involuntarily act in ways that are not true ourselves. We can get lost while searching for the...
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