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Jamie Thompson

Paying the price of ambition : the value of aspiration and the currency of motivation and emotional intelligence. Jamie Thompson. Ambition Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition - Timothy Leary When ambition ends, happiness begins - Hungarian Proverb

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Jamie Thompson

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  1. Paying the price of ambition:the value of aspiration and the currency of motivation and emotional intelligence Jamie Thompson

  2. Ambition Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition -Timothy Leary When ambition ends, happiness begins - Hungarian Proverb Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied - Niccolo Machiavelli Ambition is the last refuge of the failure -Oscar Wilde Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other side - Shakespeare, Macbeth As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him – Shakespeare, Julius Caesar What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - Gospel of Mark, 8:36

  3. Aspiration A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. Joseph Conrad

  4. Dan Pink http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

  5. Dispositions to Stay Success and satisfaction at University • some small finding s about the importance of curiosity and meaning making • strong evidence that relationships are the key – with each other and with staff

  6. Action Collaboration Relationships contingent contingent

  7. Well-being

  8. Have a chat • What does or could motivate you at work? • What do you aspire to at work? For the university, for your department, for yourself?

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