Personal Development

Ever say to yourself or someone else, “I have to go to work” with that sense of beleagueredness in your voice?  Ever stop to reflect on how that happened or what it might really mean? [...]

A number of years ago I had cause to do a little research on workaholism for a class I was taking on “Work and Community.”  I remember that one of my sources said that it is not the workaholic [...]

There are only two people on this planet now who make me go weak in the knees in abject admiration when in their presence:  Nikki Giovanni and Norm Kerth.  They, in many ways, are not alike.  [...]

Somewhere along the lifecycle of the Boomer generation—maybe it was somewhere after the founding of Apple, the rise of the personal computer, and the personal digital assistant, but after the [...]

. . . or woman, either, for that matter.  It’s easy to go along living your life enjoying the heck out of it and then wake up, notice where you are, and suddenly realize this is not where [...]

30 years ago, even 20 years ago, it was common to be asked to provide two personal references and two professional references when you applied for a job with a company with which you were not [...]

Epilogue I tend not to spend much time on problems I’m not interested in solving, and I have now spent many years with the problem of work. Because I find self-responsibility a most [...]

Personal Sovereignty One of the most common mistakes we make when we enter an organization as a worker is that we give up our autonomy, or as Polly Young-Eisendrath describes it, personal [...]

Taking Responsibility, Assuming Authority The many theorists on work, its place in our lives, and impact on our well-being are eager to show us the external culprit in our discomfort: the Great [...]

Work at Its Worst Recently, I was watching a pastiche of Stallone films. In one scene he is being broken down through a classic method for degrading the personality and resistance of prisoners: [...]