Jim Bright Keynote video clip on chaos, shift happening and spys in Ottawa
The Factory This is a 11 minute clip of my Keynote Know Change and No Change:how I learned to love chaos given to open the Cannexus Career Development Conference in Ottawa, January 2011. Tweet This...
View ArticleJim Bright talking change and chaos video from his Cannexus Keynote 2011
The Factory Here is a five minute video of my Keynote “Know Change and No Change: how I learned to love Chaos” presented at the Cannexus Career Development Conference in January 2011 If you like it,...
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Is the Chaos Theory of Careers doing Practitioners out of a job?
The Factory The Chaos Theory of Careers says its all down to chance right? So why do you need a career practitioner if it is all chance? So the logic goes that gives rise to the question and title of...
View ArticleRead The Chaos Theory of Careers Chapter 1 for free here!
The Factory Read the first chapter of my new book The Chaos Theory of Careers for free here: Tweet This Post The FactoryThe Factory - Career Development Blog & Podcasts from Jim Bright, PhD, Bright...
View ArticleAn Amusing example of the Butterfly effect (non linearity) in Chaos Theory of...
The Factory In the Chaos Theory of Careers, non-linearity refers to that fact that sometimes very small acts can lead to huge responses down the line, or the opposite, that sometimes very large acts...
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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 8: From Informing To Informing And...
The Factory Shift: Transform your career by shifting: Shift 8: From Informing To Informing And Transforming What is easier – working with a person to understand the limits and biases in their thinking...
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The imperfect career and a gift from Brene Brown
The Factory I got a gift from Brené Brown the other day. Actually you could call it a gift squared, because the gift was The Gifts of Imperfection, her popular and really very very good book. Brené,...
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The Strange Strength of Vulnerability
The Factory The Strange Strength of Vulnerability Here is a paradox – the strongest systems are those that are most susceptible to change. They are the ones that have a lot of connections. The more...
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had: Gen Y myths...
The Factory Redundancy is generally a bad thing but there are plenty of people who should be made redundant without delay: Kim Jong Il of North Korea, and Omar Al Bashir of Sudan spring to mind. They...
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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 9: From Normative Thinking To...
The Factory Transform your career by shifting: Shift 9: From Normative Thinking To Normative And Scalable Thinking When I was a child, I didn’t want to be with the other young kids in the shallow end...
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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 10 – From Knowing In Advance To...
The Factory Here is a spoiler alert – if you are likely to be going to the cinema or watching TV in the next while, you may want to skip the next paragraph. Rosebud was his sledge. They all did it....
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Make or Break Moments in Careers and Life
The Factory Make or Break Moments in Careers and Life Are there moments in life that are make or break? In Chaos Theory of Careers Terms, tipping points, where everything changes? Can we predict them,...
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Is goal setting past its peak? Some new data.
The Factory How long has there been serious interest in goal setting? You might be forgiven for thinking it has always been a key approach to changing human behavior. However according to PsycInfo...
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Embracing Uncertainty in Life and Careers
The Factory What does uncertainty mean to you? To many uncertainty is a threat to be avoided or overcome. To others it offers surprise and opportunity. For some it is both of these things depending...
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The Edge of Chaos Posters
The Factory I want to share a resource I’ve been working on over the last week called the Edge of Chaos Posters. I’ve designed a couple of posters that try to illustrate the idea of the relationship...
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The Day my Dog became a Triangle
The Factory The Day my Dog became a Triangle Dogs are not triangles. Any fool knows this. They don’t even bother assessing this knowledge when they issue you with a dog license. So it was very...
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Life Creativity – Applying Beyond Personal Mastery® to Life Changes
The Factory Life Creativity – Applying Beyond Personal Mastery® to Life Changes I want to share with you my model of Creativity that provides practical steps to enhance Life and Career changes. I will...
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Inspiration – the first step into creativity
The Factory Inspiration – the first step into creativity Inspiration is the starting point for creativity in the Beyond Personal Mastery® model. The inspiration step is all about getting ideas and...
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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 11 – From Trust As Control To Trust...
The Factory Transform your career by shifting: Shift 11 – From Trust As Control To Trust As Faith There comes a point in all things that really matter in life when trying to exert control is not...
View Article110 Job Hunting Resume, CV and Interview Tips
The Factory 110 job hunting resume cv and interview tips from Jim Bright Here are some tips for Job Hunting, Resumes, Interviews, and Testing for 2011. As an author of job hunting books that have sold...
View ArticleHow to get luck on your side
The Factory Here is an article in the Australian Financial Review on Luck in Careers. How to get luck on your side in your career. It is about luck in careers, luck readiness, and luck and career...
View ArticleThe role of parents in career development and thoughts on my father
The Factory here is a link to my column in the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers on parents and careers. The role of parents in career development is critical. Here I share some thoughts on the...
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The top 10 words of 2011 or of all time?
The Factory LinkedIn report the top 10 clichés found on LinkedIn profiles in 2011 (see here). So how do these words stack up in terms of historic usage? Using a relatively unknown google research...
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Why is George Clooney so rich?
The Factory We are all familiar with all the advice on how to get rich. However here I analyse George Clooney’s wealth and provide a possible reason for his wealth. George Clooney apparently earns $15m...
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Act before you think: In coaching and careers
The Factory “Nothing will be achieved if first all objections must be overcome” said the wise Eleanor Roosevelt. Objections prevent action. Objections to our own actions are ultimately authored by...
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Coaching Fractal Action for Personal Development
The Factory We get frustrated when we are unsure how to act, and feel disheartened when we voluntarily or involuntarily act in ways that are not true ourselves. We can get lost while searching for the...
View ArticleWebinars on Coaching with the Chaos Theory of Careers with Dr Jim Bright
The Factory New Webinar Series! – Coaching clients using the Chaos Theory of Careers – 10 1 hour webinars presented by Dr Jim Bright Coaching Training – Early bird rates close July 15th (for Sydney and...
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Creating creative coaching sessions – Keyhole coaching
The Factory Are we stuck in rather unimaginative approaches to how we deliver coaching or counseling sessions? How can we start creating creative coaching sessions? This post is prompted by Madeline...
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22 effective Coaching Questions: Pixar’s 22 Rules of Story Telling Applied to...
The Factory Coaching can benefit from animation company Pixar and their rules of story telling. Pixar has 22 rules of story telling, according to David Price, the author of Pixar Touch – see his blog...
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Do people use uncertainty as an excuse to avoid planning and do nothing in...
The Factory Do people use uncertainty as an excuse to do nothing in their lives? Is it tempting to say that because uncertainty exists in the world there is no point trying to plan for a future, and so...
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