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Transformational events, miraculous research, amazing new approaches and powerful compelling stories help us understand how intention and intension as dynamic strengths operate in our lives and work. Theintentioncoach.com blog posts target ongoing streams of personal empowerment in an unpredictable world. Be part of this conversation and keep it going.
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Theintentioncoach.com proprietor and principal, Donald R. Officer is a practising coach, facilitator, consultant, writer, trainer and lecturer with over 30 years experience in the workplace and classroom. He provides services to business, the public and non-profit sectors organizations in real time while writing for both long form and online publication.
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As individuals need to reconcile goals and strategies, so groups need to build common intention. In-tension has to be managed to avoid breakdown. Resolution of every difference is seldom required. However, adequate understanding ensures successful conflict navigation, a prime goal if results matter. Intention must get the better of intension.
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Our work and relationships at The Intention Coach are both reflective and evidence-based as our model of practice implies. In this world, there are some things we can be confident about others that appear unclear and still others present mysteries. Sometimes unfortunately, but always fascinatingly, we are never sure what exactly belongs in each category. Please share with us your immediate wants, hopes and concerns. We are all learning wisdom here.
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Are you steering or in steerage?
Upgrade: Taking your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary by Rana Florida McGraw-Hill 2013 review and author interview by Donald Officer and Kelly Okamura Part 1: The Review Although Upgrade is written in a readable, conversational style, author Rana Florida is pretty hard headed in what she prescribes for any individual seeking an upgraded life. She is also on record as a strong believer in creativity – Get Creative is one of her seven commandments and she is CEO of the Creative...
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Moral dissention
Every generation somebody discovers a scientific framework to explain everything as far as one particular field or another is concerned. In The Moral Landscape we see neuroscientist Sam Harris devising a moral construct based on brain science. Reviewer William Sheridan suggests this might be a new ideology or belief system every bit as dogmatic as the various forms of fundamentalism it is intended to supplant. I don’t know if I’d go that far. Neuroscience and cognitive psychology have already helped the...
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I DON’T THINK SO
In this era of relativity, quantum mechanics, climate change, genome mapping, neuroscience, cognitive studies, systems analysis and complexity theory etc. etc. any notions about an absolute basis for figuring out the world seem presumptuous. So when my colleague, William Sheridan, sent me this review I was amused, but provoked in a good way by the paradox implicit in what he says. In a few sweeping sentences he dismisses the preponderance of the west’s canon of received wisdom. On the...
Read MoreIs it good to be content?
We do live in extraordinarily interesting times to over exaggerate the Chinese curse. On a day to day level life has never been more secure even in some of the most desperate parts of the earth. Longevity is increasing everywhere daily. Some of the worst banes of human history are fading into its dimmer annals. The really unpleasant reminders of disease, risk and mortality are the more irksome for their exceptional persistence in the face of so much progress....
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