People write from their ego and produce not-poetry; people write to heal themselves and this is good and meaningful; and thirdly, and more famously, people write poetry because they write poetry and produce art. And a number key factors come together when this happens. First, the third desire – for beauty – comes into playContinue reading “Two Plus One Reasons to Write Poetry – #3”
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Two Plus One Reasons to Write Poetry – #2
The second primary reason to write poetry is to heal, oneself first of all, and others secondarily, if they able to read your words and take strength from, and identify with, your situation. Healing and poetry have been soul mates from the beginning: the god Apollo was the god of healing and the father ofContinue reading “Two Plus One Reasons to Write Poetry – #2”
Seven More Questions to Stimulate Motivation
Following my blog on seven questions to help you stimulate motivation with your staff, let me suggest seven more ideas that have impact. First, do you take a personal interest in your people? This is more than a mere hope you are well, or what time of day is it, interest. Have you considered whetherContinue reading “Seven More Questions to Stimulate Motivation”
Two Plus One Reasons to Write Poetry – #1
There are two plus one primary reasons to write poetry, which is not to say three; all numbers may or may not be equal, but reasons certainly are not. There are good reasons, and less good ones for all sorts of things. I am excited myself by good reasons to write poetry, and groan whenContinue reading “Two Plus One Reasons to Write Poetry – #1”
Seven Questions to Stimulate Motivation
The issue of motivating staff will not go away; in fact, with the rise of technology and the increasing levels of distance and impersonality, the how-to-manage-them question gets larger and larger. In such a context Motivational Maps are essential since they do supply on-line so much of the information that an effective manager or leaderContinue reading “Seven Questions to Stimulate Motivation”
Four Plus One Reasons Not to Change
It would appear that change is ubiquitous and unavoidable, and the net result of that is that everyone – who has a mind – wishes to control it, to get on top of it, to be a master of change rather than its victim. The Earl of Salisbury was in quite another era when heContinue reading “Four Plus One Reasons Not to Change”
Why “Layering” Your Business is Important
If we are entrepreneurs and are in business we all want to run a successful business and one of the major obstacles to that happening is the competition taking our idea and creating their own version of it and so depleting us of customers. This is a very real threat, and it happens over the most basic commodities. You have a taxi or a mobile ice cream parlour in a successful patch and the next thing you know ten others have suddenly sprung up. In my local area the £1 shop went bust when literally across the street the 99p shop opened up. Hmm – so much for customer loyalty.
CEOs, Motivation and Pay
A survey in the Guardian put being head of a major organisation – the CEO – as the best paidjob in Britain; and, interestingly, even being a 'senior local government official' ranked tenth. CEOs, then, have it – the best paid jobs. This despite the research from Eversheds which found – in a survey ofContinue reading “CEOs, Motivation and Pay”
Choosing the Right Job
I recently coached a friend of mine who was in a joyful an unusual position: he had three jobs he had been offered in a week, and when he saw me he had to decide which one he was going to accept! Hmm – nice. And it may be not as unusual as we think;Continue reading “Choosing the Right Job”
High Engagement at Work – David Bowles and Cary Cooper
I have just had the pleasure of reading David Bowles and Cary Cooper’s latest book, The High Engagement Work Culture, Balancing Me and We, and a super book it is. Not only does it contain up-to-date information on the latest research, and that not just from academic publications but widely sourced from the Internet too,Continue reading “High Engagement at Work – David Bowles and Cary Cooper”
The Mapping Motivation Series 