Many thanks to Kati Järvinen, a colleague in the Enneagram in Business network, for bringing Stefan Sagmeister’s TED talk to my attention. In it, he describes how he made a conscious decision to take a one-year sabbatical every seven years and the impact of this decision. Conceptually, he took five years out of the retirement…
Tag Archive: vision
What’s in it for you?
Image by jmtimages via Flickr I’ve been reading the Bouncing Back After A Layoff blog over the past few weeks – lots of food for thought in these turbulent times. Today’s article on What Jobseekers Can Learn From Obama is an excellent reminder about thinking about where the other person’s interests lie. Barack Obama focuses…
When meaning matters
In my time at ABB the official company language (according to our CEO, Goran Lindahl) was “poor English”. Native speakers cut slack for those less proficient and many of us were grateful that we didn’t have to learn several languages in order to get the work done. A side effect of English as the lingua…
