As we creep closer to the end of our second year of our pioneering BA in Creative & Cultural Industries, I am really pleased to...
John O'Brien and I recently published a review of the Basic Income for the Arts Pilot scheme in the Irish Journal of Arts Management and...
We are only beginning to come to terms with the impact of Covid on our ways of working and on our relationships with each other...
July 5, 2006
I was thinking of writing something soulful about meaning and value – you know the difference between what we say we value and what we actually value and how that translates into relationships at work etc? Anyway, between thinking about it and hitting the keyboard I managed to devour Freaknomics…
July 5, 2006
I came across Come Gather Round (via Management Craft) where there’s a great post about questions (and you know me and my questions by now!). In it Dirk Richards says What is the most significant question that you have ever been asked, or have ever asked yourself? My quest for…
July 2, 2006
In Manfred Kets de Vries‘ presentation at the recent ISPSO conference he highlighted the key concerns of top executives. I captured 9 of them and there may have been more – but here you go: 1 Interpersonal conflict 2 Management of disappointment 3 Nobel Prize complex – can I be…
June 28, 2006
I came across the following quotes from Adam Phillip’ book Monogomy. I think each of these statements are as applicable to business as they are to our personal lives, particularly the idea of promiscuity..who are we loyal to in our work lives? Is it something we demand and expect of…
June 27, 2006
Psychoanalyst and Management Guru Manfred Kets de Vries was one of the plenary speakers at the ISPSO Symposium in Haarlem and he spoke about the role of the consultant in asking critical questions of clients. At one point he said he now describes himself as an “Insultant” rather than a…
June 27, 2006
I really enjoyed the ISPSO Conference which took place in Haarlem, The Netherlands. As I mentioned before, the theme was “The Dark Side of Competition; Psaychoanalytic Insights” and all of the papers referenced the issue in one way or another. The great thing about psychodynamically orientated conferences is that there…
June 22, 2006
The real reason I’m currently in Amsterdam is to attend the annual symposium of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations which starts tomorrow morning. The theme of the conference is “The Dark Side of Competition” and I’m looking forward to the papers and presentations, not to mind…
June 21, 2006
Maybe it’s just me, but I find myself sighing when I read about “time management”…so much of what I read appears to be predicated on two things (a) there’s limited amounts of it (yup, I get that bit) and (b) it’s possible to operate in a linear way within a…
June 19, 2006
I’m currently in Amsterdam where I’ll be attending a symposium at the end of the week. I decided to take a few days off to spend a little time being a tourist and I can safely say right now I’m overwhelmed by ambivalence. This morning as I sat in the…
June 14, 2006
I’ve been having computer problems over the last few days. My Fujitsu Lifebook is continually crashing and I’m getting a “2060 System Timer Error” message when I try and boot up. I don’t have a back up computer so it’s fairly serious. The machine is out of warranty (just) and…
