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Category Archives: Passion
The Power of Words
Have you run your resume through a word cloud generator to see what you are saying most often to prospective employers? What about your personal or corporate blog? What we say – especially in today’s hyper-connected world – can say … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Agility, Autonomy, Branding, Communication, Diagrams, Passion, Talent
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Does Mediocrity Reign Supreme?
So Rick and I were talking about passion for your work. Do you love what you do? How badly would you want to change to actively go out and find a better alternative to the job the current have (and … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Change, Passion
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Sticking to your guns
The engaging conversation occurring around “Knowing when to quit” already had me feeling better about the latest Kumquat decisions. And then I read this from Joel on Software: Every day you make a tiny bit of progress. You make one … Continue reading
Posted in Criticism, Inspiration, Kumquat, Passion, Perception
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I Love My Job: Rasmussen/Su, Husband & Wife Architects
In the second of a semi-regular interview series on people who love their jobs, I spoke with Kevin Rasmussen and Vivian Su, a husband and wife team running their own small architecture firm. They have worked to create a lifestyle … Continue reading
Posted in Autonomy, Career, Fulfillment, Meaning, Passion, Work-life balance
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Moonlighting Revisited, sans Cybil and Bruce
As educated professionals, we can’t all answer the four-killer questions of professional passion relative to our day job. We’ve all dreamed of some passion-driven, grass-is-greener scenario that let’s us realize opportunities above and beyond those in our current role. Sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Can vs. Should, Career, Develop, More, Passion
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Job Search or Career Management? There's a difference
Just stumbled upon a great post over on the JibberJobber blog, entitled “Paradigm Shifting: Job Search vs. Career Management.” It hits upon the same points about which we’ve been carping recently. You shouldn’t be looking for a job or working … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Involvement, More than a living, Passion, Perspective
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Free to an unhappy home
The Chief Happiness Officer has offered to give away free PDFs of his book, Happy Hour is 9 to 5, to the first 50 100 people to comment on the post entitled, “Is your workplace unhappy? Get my book for … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Culture, Happiness, Motivation, Passion
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Kathy Sierra's bad marriage metaphor dead on for employees, too
You don’t need me to sit here and prattle on, yet again, about how much of a genius Kathy Sierra is. If you do, I’d be happy to do that. But I won’t until you ask. (Maybe I’m just tittering … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Culture, Employment, Hiring, Passion
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The only constant is you
When Toby and I started scribbling the ideas that became More than a living, we were trying to find a way to describe the business ennui in which we both found ourselves seemingly irrevocably ensconced. Part of that cathartic process … Continue reading
Posted in Autonomy, Career, Goals, Growth, Happiness, Meaning, Passion, Performance, Purpose, Responsibility
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Who said this?
I’ve no idea where my proclivity for quotes is coming from lately, but here’s another that struck me. And rather than lay it all out for you, I thought it might be better to provide the quote sans author. Who … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Change, Fulfillment, Happiness, Passion
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