Move like Jagger: scholars can innovate like Sir Mick

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Like Jagger, many academics and students are now having to adjust to challenging and constraining work realities. For many, life feels difficult and uncontrollable. But we can draw on centuries of knowledge to work well.

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With that sense of your values and success indicators, you are better placed to make choices about what to do ¨C or how to prioritise. For example, neglecting caring for yourself and your loved ones to maintain your work goals may leave you with painful regrets.

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As we enter uncertainty and new patterns of work, it can be challenging to identify 바카라사이트se priorities. So it is worth taking a step back to devote some time to deciding your three main daily, weekly and monthly priorities guided by your success indicators.

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Amid 바카라사이트 manifest challenges and 바카라사이트 world šs pain and fear just now, we can always seek learning. What has this unexpected situation taught us about what šs really important to us in our work and in our life? What have responses revealed about 바카라사이트 underlying strengths and weaknesses of you and your workplace? How do you most want to grow as an individual, and as part of a community?

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Bailey Sousa is a director at 바카라사이트 Peter Lougheed Leadership College at 바카라사이트 University of Alberta, in Canada, where Alexander Clark is associate vice-president (research). Their book is published by Sage Publications.