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In my previous article I argued that from a societal perspective (and that’s pretty broad!) there is a need to facilitate and promote Stage 4 Career Development: Basic Training and Socialization, and perhaps Stage 3: Entry into the World of Work. Failure by societies to proactively facilitate these two stages

Edgar Schein in his seminal work, Career Dynamics and its companion workbook, Career Anchors, described a model of the Major Stages of a Career. There are 10 Stages in his model ranging from Stage 1: Growth, Fantasy, Exploration, to Stage 10: Retirement. A lot of social and institutional energy and

Admittedly my perspective may be skewed by my location – I’m in Ottawa, surrounded by abstract public servants, or self-important technology (especially software) companies. They read the popular press, and believe what they read there. Both of these universes tend to think the Millennials are special and need to be

Much has been written, or talked about, when it comes to the latest generational cohort, much of it misplaced, in my view. Still we generally identify with these stereo-typical generalizations, and even marvel at the truisms of behavioural causation. I suppose we can’t blame managers and HR Professionals for acting

As with many things in life we all have to manage a balance between politeness and honesty. Such balances will be personal to us and dependant on many factors. (Did you notice I have been deceptive in this series? There were not nine parts to it but 14! However, if

Okay, we all know about social niceties, even political correctness – communicating so as not to offend. But what about deception that deliberately, and persuasively serves another purpose, as we saw in the example in the previous section. Politics occurs when observers perceive that influence tactics are self-serving behaviours to