Month: August 2019

Personality, personal projects, place and well-being

By Elisabeth Goodman, 28th August 2019 I have been enjoying Brian Little’s “Me , Myself and Us – The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being” over the summer.  It was recommended to me by one of my delegates (unfortunately I can’t remember who), and has proved very insightful. Here are just some of …

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Re-building working relationships with emotional intelligence

By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th August 2019 The Summer issue of APM’s (Association for Project Management) Project magazine has a couple of excellent articles on rebuilding relationships. Susanne Madsen (p. 63) addresses how to strengthen your relationship with internal stakeholders who have become cynical and negative over the years. Marion Thomas and Sarah Walton (pp. 65-67) …

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The soul of a start-up, nimble leadership, flexibility and control

By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th August 2019 Remember Gary Hamel’s article last November about how to retain employee engagement in growing and large organisations? The latest issue of Harvard Business Review (July – August 2019) carries two articles that provide some stimulating and converging ideas about how to achieve employee engagement through a combination of control …

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