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Work. It’s Not Always Fun (But Sometimes It’s Great)
I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of fun at work lately. I work in an organization that has centered fun as a core value. But I find myself wondering – does it have to be fun to be great? Does it have to be fun to be energizing? Does it have to be…
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Did I Write That?
Is it a particularly academic thing to obsessively re-read one’s emails, texts, reports, slides and yes blog posts to evaluate how the sentences fall or fail? And is it particularly academic to slide back across paragraphs written several years back and think: hey, that has a certain something to it? And then (panicky): I don’t…
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The Ivory Tower
I start on a lark and finish in more serious reflection. I was a bit surprised, although also delighted, to learn that the oft-referenced Ivory Tower comes to us, not by way of some resentful rusticated Cantabrigian (I’m not that elite – I googled “student at Cambridge, figuring – rightly – there would be some…
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