WorkLife Stories by Carmel O' Reilly from School Of WorkLife

Start With Where You Are With What You’ve Got and With Who You Are By  Carmel O’ Reilly

This Week's Book of The Podcast is: The Intent to Live Achieving Your True Potential As An Actor by Larry Moss

Taking a stand for something you believe in, speaking out about something, doesn’t mean you have to be a social commentator on everything. But from time to time it’s important to say, here’s what I believe about this thing, and when you do this, what you gain in trust will be far greater than what you lose. Besides if you believe in something, shouldn’t you be prepared to take a stand for it?

This Week's Book of The Podcast is: The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz

Along with many people throughout the world I’m shocked, sickened and saddened by inequality, discrimination, and so many kinds of ism’s: racism, homophobism, sexism, ageism, bodyism, machoism, egoism, even feminism, because I believe in equality for everyone, women and men, and I don’t like anything that discriminates against any person or any group of people. This story considers what each one of us can do in trying to understand the atrocities so many people are experiencing throughout the world because of some despicable ISM.

This Week's Book of The Podcast is: Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World by Jacqueline Novogratz 

Change vs Constant, Constant vs Change, The Argument in Favour of Constant: 

Jeff Bezos said: “I very frequently get the question: What’s going to change in the next 10 years? And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question: What’s not going to change in the next 10 years? And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two — because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.” 

Change vs Constant, Constant vs Change, The Argument In Favour of Change:

In his talk about Finding Your Purpose, Tim Cook said:  “As you go out into the world, don't waste time on problems that have been solved, don't get hung up on what other people say is practical. Instead, steer your ship into the choppy seas. Look for the rough spots, the problems that seem too big, the complexities that other people are content to work around. It's in those places that you will find your purpose.”

This Week's Book of The Podcast is: Historic Heston by Heston Blumenthal

Change vs Constant, Constant vs Change, The Argument in Favour of Constant: 

Jeff Bezos said: “I very frequently get the question: What’s going to change in the next 10 years? And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question: What’s not going to change in the next 10 years? And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two — because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.” 

Change vs Constant, Constant vs Change, The Argument In Favour of Change:

In his talk about Finding Your Purpose, Tim Cook said:  “As you go out into the world, don't waste time on problems that have been solved, don't get hung up on what other people say is practical. Instead, steer your ship into the choppy seas. Look for the rough spots, the problems that seem too big, the complexities that other people are content to work around. It's in those places that you will find your purpose.”

This Week's Book of the Podcast is: The Barbecue Bible By Steven Raichlen

Thinking is One of the Greatest Superpowers is part of a series about superpowers. Thinking, learning, knowledge, experience, potential, happiness, self-awareness, observation are all superpowers. This series will consider how these superpowers can help us in our WorkLife, and how they helped people to navigate their WorkLife with passion, purpose and pride.

This Week's Book of The Podcast is: Your WorkLife Your Way By Carmel O’ Reilly

Feedback the Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly is part of a series of people’s stories of how feedback impacted their WorkLife at different stages. How it enabled or disabled, how it championed, criticised or crushed. How it left them feeling encouraged, deflated or broken. 

This Week's Book of The Podcast is: Choose Yourself by James Altucher.

Body Language Speech Patterns and the 7/38/55 Principle in WorkLife Interactions is part of a series of people’s stories about how the ability to read the situation and the other side in the moment is key in all WorkLife interactions: from exchanges to conversations, conflict to cooperation, differences to understanding, refusals to negotiations, and much, much more.

The 7/38/55 Principle is explained in Episode 32: A Myth Misquoted Misinterpreted and Misunderstood: The 7% Rule: Fact, Fiction or Fallacy 

This Week's Book of The Podcast is: Meisner in Practice by Nick Moseley. Artist/Guest

How To Answer Bizarre Interview Questions Such As How Would You Count The Hairs on a Cat? Are  part of a series of stories of weird questions people were asked at interviews, how they answered them, and what the interviewer may have been looking for in asking these questions. This series also considers what makes a question, a good question from the point of view of being an insightful question. 

This Week's Book of The Podcast is: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Taking Care Of Your WorkLife Health is part of a series of people’s WorkLife health stories.  Stories of how the stresses of both work and life impacted their wellbeing. Stories of how people needed to take better care of both their physical and mental wellbeing. Stories of people needing to establish better WorkLife wellbeing practices both in and out of the workplace. Stories of people needing to take time out, or to make time to take better care of their own and their families wellbeing. 

This Week's Book of The Podcast is: Purple Cow by Seth Godin