For a Flourishing Career, Life and Business
« Je ne connais pas dans l’histoire un art qui ne soit pas engagé… L’art pour l’art n’existe pas. »
“I don’t know in history any art that wouldn’t be engaged… Art for art’s sake doesn’t exist.”
― Roger Somville dans une interview pour la RTBF in 1969
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The Canadian author Neil Pasricha presented in an article written for Harvard Business Review 8 ways to increase the number of books you read. Here they are, summarised:
Rebecca Temsen from Self Development Secrets also encourage readers to increase their bookshelf turnover and to maintain a reading list. She also suggests two other tips:
Happy reading!
PS: By the way, what is the book you you most enjoyed recently? Mine is The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt.
Sources: hbr.org, selfdevelopmentsecrets.com
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« L’art ne reproduit pas le visible. Il rend visible. »
“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”
― Paul Klee
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« Chacun de nous est une lune, avec une face cachée que personne ne voit. »
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain
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“Ce que le public te reproche, cultive-le. C’est toi.”
“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”
― Jean Cocteau
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“Dis-moi et j’oublie, apprends-moi et peut-être je me souviendrai, implique-moi et j’apprendrai.”
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin
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In this brilliant and humourous talk by Shawn Achor, psychologist, we see that the way we look at the world shapes the way we interact with it in terms of success.
Amongst other insights: « …only 25% of job successes are predicted by IQ, 75 percent of job successes are predicted by your optimism levels, your social support and your ability to see stress as a challenge instead of as a threat. »
Video in English, sous-titres français.
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“Peut-être vous pouvez m’apprendre quelque chose.”
― Gustav Klimt à Egon Schiele
lorsque ce dernier , âgé de 17 ans, lui demanda s’il pouvait devenir son élève
“Perhaps you can teach me something.”
― Gustav Klimt to Egon Schiele
when the latter, at age 17, asks if he might take him as a student
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The latest Forum report, The Future of Jobs, looks at the employment, skills and workforce strategy for the future.
Having asked chief human resources and strategy officers from leading global employers what the current shifts mean, specifically for employment, skills and recruitment across industries and geographies, they identified the top 10 skills you need to thrive in the fourth industrial revolution. Skills that make us irreplaceable in a world where more and more jobs will be taken over by robots.
Note that Emotional intelligence and Cognitive flexibility replaced Quality control and Active listening in the list.
So, what does your personal development plan look like?
Source: Future of Jobs Report, World Economic Forum
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