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Brisbane Times

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This year, think twice when it comes to setting career goals

This year, think twice when it comes to setting career goals

We tend to see the headlines on goals and career success and conclude the most useful thing to do is to set many goals or advise others to do the...

25.01.2025 10

WA Today

Jim Bright

This year, think twice when it comes to setting career goals

This year, think twice when it comes to setting career goals

We tend to see the headlines on goals and career success and conclude the most useful thing to do is to set many goals or advise others to do the...

25.01.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jim Bright

This year, think twice when it comes to setting career goals

This year, think twice when it comes to setting career goals

We tend to see the headlines on goals and career success and conclude the most useful thing to do is to set many goals or advise others to do the...

25.01.2025 8

The Age

Jim Bright

This year, think twice when it comes to setting career goals

This year, think twice when it comes to setting career goals

We tend to see the headlines on goals and career success and conclude the most useful thing to do is to set many goals or advise others to do the...

25.01.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Jim Bright

Forget big, bold New Year goals. Instead, just do your best

Now is the time of year to abandon your goals, for in just over a month’s time, you’ll be bombarded by over-confident self-appointed coaches...

28.11.2024 3

WA Today

Jim Bright

Forget big, bold New Year goals. Instead, just do your best

Now is the time of year to abandon your goals, for in just over a month’s time, you’ll be bombarded by over-confident self-appointed coaches...

28.11.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jim Bright

Forget big, bold New Year goals. Instead, just do your best

Now is the time of year to abandon your goals, for in just over a month’s time, you’ll be bombarded by over-confident self-appointed coaches...

28.11.2024 3

The Age

Jim Bright

Forget big, bold New Year goals. Instead, just do your best

Now is the time of year to abandon your goals, for in just over a month’s time, you’ll be bombarded by over-confident self-appointed coaches...

28.11.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Jim Bright

Bad advice is everywhere at work. Here’s how to spot it

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea, wrote Julia Cameron in her 1992 book, The Artist’s Way. Unfortunately in the world of careers advice and...

22.11.2024 3

WA Today

Jim Bright

Bad advice is everywhere at work. Here’s how to spot it

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea, wrote Julia Cameron in her 1992 book, The Artist’s Way. Unfortunately in the world of careers advice and...

22.11.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jim Bright

Bad advice is everywhere at work. Here’s how to spot it

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea, wrote Julia Cameron in her 1992 book, The Artist’s Way. Unfortunately in the world of careers advice and...

22.11.2024 4

The Age

Jim Bright

Bad advice is everywhere at work. Here’s how to spot it

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea, wrote Julia Cameron in her 1992 book, The Artist’s Way. Unfortunately in the world of careers advice and...

22.11.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Jim Bright

Who’s more neurotic, dentists or engineers? Does it matter?

Just how neurotic do you have to be to work as an actor or singer? Well, according to a study published this year in the prestigious Journal of...

08.11.2024 6

WA Today

Jim Bright

Who’s more neurotic, dentists or engineers? Does it matter?

Just how neurotic do you have to be to work as an actor or singer? Well, according to a study published this year in the prestigious Journal of...

08.11.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jim Bright

Who’s more neurotic, dentists or engineers? Does it matter?

Just how neurotic do you have to be to work as an actor or singer? Well, according to a study published this year in the prestigious Journal of...

08.11.2024 3

The Age

Jim Bright

Who’s more neurotic, dentists or engineers? Does it matter?

Just how neurotic do you have to be to work as an actor or singer? Well, according to a study published this year in the prestigious Journal of...

08.11.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Jim Bright

Humans are not resources, so why do we pretend they are?

If you had a choice to between managing a human or managing a resource which do you think would be the easiest? Anyone familiar with the task of...

04.10.2024 3

WA Today

Jim Bright

Humans are not resources, so why do we pretend they are?

If you had a choice to between managing a human or managing a resource which do you think would be the easiest? Anyone familiar with the task of...

04.10.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jim Bright

Humans are not resources, so why do we pretend they are?

If you had a choice to between managing a human or managing a resource which do you think would be the easiest? Anyone familiar with the task of...

04.10.2024 2

The Age

Jim Bright

Humans are not resources, so why do we pretend they are?

If you had a choice to between managing a human or managing a resource which do you think would be the easiest? Anyone familiar with the task of...

04.10.2024 5

Brisbane Times

Jim Bright

Looking for the ideal job: The big but misguided claim about work

What if you find yourself in your ideal job only to feel tormented that it is not allowing you to fully express yourself? One of the hangovers from...

14.09.2024 2

The Age

Jim Bright

When do companies fall apart? When they stop being curious

Companies fail when they lose the collective capacity for curiosity. Poor cultures develop through active promotion and rewarding of poor...

29.08.2024 2

WA Today

Jim Bright

When do companies fall apart? When they stop being curious

Companies fail when they lose the collective capacity for curiosity. Poor cultures develop through active promotion and rewarding of poor...

29.08.2024 1

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jim Bright

When do companies fall apart? When they stop being curious

Companies fail when they lose the collective capacity for curiosity. Poor cultures develop through active promotion and rewarding of poor...

29.08.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Jim Bright

Our jobs aren’t a horse race, so stop trying to pick a winner

In the movie The Sting, Paul Newman and Robert Redford hit on the foolproof money making exercise of placing bets on horse races after they had...

22.08.2024 2

WA Today

Jim Bright

Our jobs aren’t a horse race, so stop trying to pick a winner

In the movie The Sting, Paul Newman and Robert Redford hit on the foolproof money making exercise of placing bets on horse races after they had...

22.08.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jim Bright

Our jobs aren’t a horse race, so stop trying to pick a winner

In the movie The Sting, Paul Newman and Robert Redford hit on the foolproof money making exercise of placing bets on horse races after they had...

22.08.2024 2

The Age

Jim Bright

Our jobs aren’t a horse race, so stop trying to pick a winner

In the movie The Sting, Paul Newman and Robert Redford hit on the foolproof money making exercise of placing bets on horse races after they had...

22.08.2024 1

Brisbane Times

Jim Bright

Why we need to stop the careers counselling guessing game

School careers advisors are like a “backwards Google” and the tools they use are “Orwellian” and “detached from reality”, or at least so...

02.08.2024 2

WA Today

Jim Bright

Why we need to stop the careers counselling guessing game

School careers advisors are like a “backwards Google” and the tools they use are “Orwellian” and “detached from reality”, or at least so...

02.08.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jim Bright

Why we need to stop the careers counselling guessing game

School careers advisors are like a “backwards Google” and the tools they use are “Orwellian” and “detached from reality”, or at least so...

02.08.2024 2

The Age

Jim Bright

Waiting for a career breakthrough? A bit of luck is all you need

It has frequently been remarked that Donald Trump is the luckiest man alive, but this week, the emphasis in the sentiment moved emphatically to the...

18.07.2024 3

WA Today

Jim Bright

Waiting for a career breakthrough? A bit of luck is all you need

It has frequently been remarked that Donald Trump is the luckiest man alive, but this week, the emphasis in the sentiment moved emphatically to the...

18.07.2024 1

Brisbane Times

Jim Bright