From the monthly archives:

March 2005

Why success can make for lousy work

by Bill on March 28, 2005

There’s a fascinating book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and it helps to explain why the more successful you become in today’s world of work, the more your work becomes a nightmare from which you wonder if you’ll ever wake up. It relates, in part, to something Seth Godin wrote [...]

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Notebooks – the old fashioned kind

by Bill on March 27, 2005

I bought a notebook yesterday – something I’ve been planning to do for a while now. But no, it was not a notebook as in a laptop. It was the old fashioned kind. Something with paper and a leather cover. I’ve lost count of the number of notebooks I’ve filled over the years. For some [...]

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It’s not about marketing – or is it?

by Bill on March 25, 2005

It’s not about marketing. Or, maybe it is – in which case, you’ve really got to wonder about the state of marketing today. As an example, I recommend Seth Godin’s post Shortcuts. I think this should be printed out and framed. As a different example of the same dull mindset in the calcified regions of [...]

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Emperor has no clothes phenomenon

by Bill on March 21, 2005

Over at Ripples, David has posted Have we reached a tipping point in American employment? And he’s touched on several aspects of today’s corporate work world that make me want to tear my hair out. I call it The Emperor Has No Clothes Phenomenon – the business of saying something is one thing when it [...]

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Back from the rabbit hole

by Bill on March 20, 2005

I’ve had long gaps between posts before but never anything quite like this. It looks like I’ve been away roughly one and a half months. So what’s the story? Well, in a nutshell, illness – some inadvertent, some sort of self-induced. Kinda. The downside of being relatively healthy and going for a very long time [...]

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