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Work Life Balance

Sincere connections through work

How often do we hear about people’s desire for a solid fit between personal values and work activities? We spend hours (and hours) working so it’s essential to connect with the people around us. It’s more than being pleasant and it’s not networking (though these are important), it’s about creating and maintaining sincere connections through [...]

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Happiness Sheds its Hippie Heritage

by David Brewster Management

I was listening to a talkback radio discussion last night about what constitutes achievement and success in work and life. While not a particularly original topic for evening radio, I was struck by the tone of the calls. During quite a lengthy discussion, not a single caller suggested that success is about climbing the corporate ladder or making money. Could it be that success – for everyone, not just the hippies – is about being happy?

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Discovering a World of Unlimited Creativity

by David Brewster Innovation

“Thinking about thinking? That sounds a bit weird!” said my daughters. So much for the open minds of the young. For the last month I’ve been fulfilling a long term desire to lubricate my mind with the oil of philosophy. Along the way I’ve tried to explain to my offspring (clearly with limited success) what [...]

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Are We Reaching our Speed Limit?

by David Brewster Work Life Balance

What a buzz. Unexpectedly, on a recent trip to New Zealand, I was able to see, up close, the ‘World’s Fastest Indian’. This was the motorcycle made famous in the uplifting film of that name. 40 years on, Burt Munro’s motorcycle still holds land speed records for its class. It got me thinking about [...]

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The Awful Truth About How to Reduce your Stress Level

by David Brewster Management

The first spanner hit the wall with a discordant clang. The second – moments later – struck a truer note and bounced back, hitting Simon on the hand. Expletives followed but were lost in the metallic morass of the engine bay. Simon lifted his shaking head from under the bonnet, slammed it down and ran [...]

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Flexible working hours work. Why are they so rare?

by David Brewster Work Life Balance

One of the principles of creating a simple workplace – a workplace in which it is easy to get things done – is the creation of flexibility. Making it easier for people to do their work when and where they can would seem an obvious way to help employees strike the right balance between work [...]

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A Simple Truth about Work-Life Balance

by David Brewster Management

Speaking of Balance, this month’s article for Business Simplification just happens to be on that topic… It all started well for Russell. Like a growing number of busy 21st century managers, he wanted more balance. He counted himself lucky when he and his wife worked out they could afford him to cut back to four [...]

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Are you Addicted to being Connected?

by David Brewster Technology

Thanks to Leon Gettler’s Management Line for the heads up on a fabulous video showing the managing editor of Forbes magazine struggling to do without his mobile phone and BlackBerry. The challenge was to last seven days – he lasted 40 hours. This little experiment raises a couple of issues. First, it is clear from [...]

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