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“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.” Joseph Campbell

Whatever philosophical debates that statement might open up, it certainly could be argued that in a modern work context people have lost any sense of the “rapture associated with being alive.” At a time when working conditions are arguably better than at any time in recorded history, empl… Continue

“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get from it, but what they become by it.” John Ruskin

A modern day cynic might well scoff at these words and the idealism behind them and rebut them with Richard Nelson Bolles’ description of the American workforce from his 1970 book, ‘What Colour is Your Parachute’, "There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of… Continue

“Given the difficult times, we have to invest in good quality leadership rather than reorganising and restructuring or trying to manage our way out.” Dominic Turnbull MD McLane Group (quoted in Top Consultant Newsletter)

This is one of the most sensible statements about the current financial and economic climate I have read in weeks. It is also a very polite, diplomatic way of saying that the knee-jerk response of managers to reorganise and restructure is simply shuffling the deck… Continue