Overcoming office politics

People engage in office politics because they think it will lead to better career prospects for them in the future. They align themselves to influencers, which by default means they will also be distancing themselves from others in the organisation. But who is actually influential? Sometimes we know, but sometimes we don’t. Lots of companies will have hidden influencers that employees aren’t aware of. This could be the receptionist or the security staff, the canteen manager or the IT administrator.

BUSINESS, CAREERRonan Kennedy17 January 2017Office Politics, Relationships, Emotions

So... you want to work with people

Human beings have an innate desire to help each other out or contribute to the greater good of society, so it's normal for people to say that they want to "work with people". Fantastic!... but let's go into a little bit more detail so that we can define the goal.

CAREERRonan Kennedy1 October 2015Intelligences, Emotions, Interests

13 Lessons on Patterns from Physiotherapy

My physio told me that my patterns of movement are impeding my training and therefore my progress. In other words, my patterns of movement are linked to my running technique, which is linked to the problems that I'm having with my knees. All of the stretching in world won’t make a difference as long as my patterns of movement are still inadequate.

So why am I writing about this? The reason is this: I couldn't help but draw a parallel between the patterns of movement that we do with our bodies and the patterns of thoughts/emotions that we have in our minds.

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