In this sporadic series of posts, Icshare a few insights, as they might apply to work and organisations, from ‘Life and How To Survive It’ and ‘Families and How to Survive Them’, by psychotherapist (late) Robin Skynner and comedian John Cleese.
Tag: work-as-done
In this post, I outline a typical process of 10 Steps by which problematic solutions come into being. Some of the steps may be skipped, but with the same outcome: a problematic solution.
During the second world war, the United States lost hundreds of planes in accidents that…
It has variously been described as “an incredible and almost unbelievable gaffe” (Radio Times), “the greatest mistake in Academy Awards history” (Telegraph), “an extraordinary blunder…an unprecedented error” (ITV News), “the most spectacular blunder in the history of the starry ceremony” and “the most awkward, embarrassing Oscar moment of all time: an extraordinary failure” (Guardian). It was, of course, the Grand Finale of the Oscars 2017.
This is the seventh in a series of posts on The Archetypes of Human Work, on the Defunct archetype.
This is the sixth in a series of posts on The Archetypes of Human Work, on the P.R. and Subterfuge archetype.
This is the fifth in a series of posts on The Archetypes of Human Work, on the Projection archetype.
This is the fourth in a series of posts on The Archetypes of Human Work, on the Ignorance and Fantasy archetype.
This is the third in a series of posts on The Archetypes of Human Work, on the Taboo archetype.
This is the second in a series of posts on The Archetypes of Human Work, on the Congruence archetype.
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