Is Meaningful Success Possible Within an Organisation?
Working in a twenty-first century organisation can feel pretty bleak. Many employees describe feeling increasingly discouraged, disconnected and disengaged. They struggle to feel a sense of meaning or...
View ArticleACTing On Mental Health: The Evidence
This week someone asked me for a meeting, so I looked at my diary….kept looking…and eventually came up with a date in early December. It’s not just me – though of course I am terribly important. I...
View ArticleEverything is Dysfunctional: Applying Psychological Flexibility to Organisations
“But every organisation is dysfunctional!” I was describing the frustrations of running a small business to a friend who works in venture capital. In my mind I felt like the kind of dysfunction I was...
View ArticleFighting for what matters: what I really learned about completing a doctorate...
So I did want to reflect on what I learned during these past few years because so much of it is Working with ACT-relevant. But I am wary of writing one of ‘those‘ type of posts, or one of those ‘it was...
View ArticleWhat is Meaning in Work?
When I retrained to become a psychologist, my MSc research centred on meaning in work. That’s because my work to date (as a management consultant) had been pretty meaningless, which left me pretty...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Purpose Leads to Meaning in Life?
Steve Jobs once said that Apple’s mission was to ‘dent the universe’. That is, he was driven to affect or make a difference in the world above and beyond profit. Yet many people seem to have far more...
View ArticleA Guide to Lockdown for Other Parents, from a True Parenting Expert
Anyone who knows me or my children will know that I am definitely both a relationship and parenting expert. For example, before I proposed to my wife I felt I need to list all of my imperfections...
View ArticleThe Marginal Gains Handbook – Practical ideas to survive and thrive in the...
We are delighted to release VERSION 2 of this free, practical guide of evidence-based ways to survive and thrive in the age of Coronavirus. DOWNLOAD HERE This version includes improved ideas for...
View ArticleThe future of work: Why Psychological Flexibility is a Key Leadership Skill...
A few years ago in the UK, a Panorama investigation uncovered systematic abuse of elderly care home residents who were being routinely pushed about, belittled and humiliated by their so-called...
View ArticleDo you need a high-performance routine? (Plus: FREE quiz…and hedgehogs!)
So, for today’s serious analysis of the modern workplace, I want you to imagine you’re a hedgehog. There you are, snuffling about in the forest, doing all of your normal hedgehoggy things. Yes,...
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