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Tonight show 3-part special on Work from tomorrow August 31st at 7.30pm on ITV1

Posted by ianprice on Tue, 30/08/2011 - 08:52
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The Tonight show is running a 3-programme special on the world of work in Britain.

The first show looks at why in Britain we work longer hours than hour European counterparts. "The Working Life - Getting the Balance Right" is on ITV 1 at 7.30pm on Wednesday August 31st.

 

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The Activity Illusion with Ian Price

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I am an organisational behaviour specialist and author of The Activity Illusion. Formerly a corporate man, I have switched careers and was recently awarded a MSc in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck College. Part of the reason I did this is because I was finding it increasingly hard to find work I could enjoy in corporate life. Everyone I worked with was frantically busy and yet so little was being achieved; this appeared to me to be the case the more senior the manager. I worked with people who were "too busy" to perform the basic functions of leadership - too busy to have team meetings, too busy to delegate, too busy to give feedback.

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