As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Dan Pink‘s new book Drive touches on something that I’ve been thinking about for many years: the role – or lack thereof – of mastery in the workplace. I’ve been going through my archives pulling together my thoughts on the subject over the years and found the [...]
Also tagged Concept Work, learning, Mastery, WorkI read 39 books in 2009, just “a few” shy of my goal of 50. Thanks to a little nudge from Art Johnson (@artjohnson) and some tips from Julien Smith, I’ve set my 2010 sights just a little bit higher: a book a week, for a total of 52. I got the list off to [...]
Also tagged Life, Mastery, Motivation, passion, WorkOn February 17, 1986, shortly after excusing himself from the ice for a breather from the hockey game he was playing with my brothers and some friends, my father collapsed and died from “massive coronary failure”. Had he lived, today would have been his 70th birthday. I usually refrain from writing anything that is overly [...]
Also tagged autism, Life, parenting, passionOccasionally I’m asked what I think about being the parent of an autistic son. Over the years (about 16 now) I’ve had the chance to give it some thought, and I have to say that although my opinions on quite a few things related to autism have evolved – and some have outright changed - [...]
Also tagged autism, Life, Mastery, parenting, TwitterOver the past week or so there have been several blogs that have helped me pull together a bunch of things I’ve been trying to connect in my mind for a while. First was Harold Jarche’s post Working Together, in which he looked at Shawn Callahan’s ideas on group work against the backdrop of Tom [...]
Also tagged chaotic, Complexity, complicated, Concept Work, Cynefin, DeliberatePractice, Knowledge Work, learning, Mastery, WorkLiteracyThough perhaps a bit more rigorous in his approach, what Geoff Colvin has to say about deliberate practice in Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else is not unlike what George Leonard says about “practice” in Mastery or how Josh Waitzkin describes his process of mastering chess and T’ai Ch’i in his [...]
Also tagged Books, DeliberatePractice, learning, Mastery, WorkLiteracyIn his book, Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi has a section entitled “Balance is BS”. The “balance” he is referring to is the work/life balance that so many people talk about. If you hadn’t read the rest of the book, or if you don’t know anything about Keith, you will likely be thinking, “This guy [...]
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