Quick question: What do you think is more important to career success – people skills or technical skills? Both as it turns out. Bell Labs studied emotional quotient, the EQ, and found it is as important to your long-term success as your IQ. IQ, the Intelligence Quotient, was once prized to be the key to career success. So, …
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs …
There’s no such thing as time management; there’s only self management. Rory Vaden – Self management Guru and Writer VUCAN managers don’t manage in terms of telling a worker what to do, when, and how to do it in COVID time. VUCAN workers are assumed to know their jobs as well as be able to self manage. …
Let’s look at Paradigms again. Paradigms can be defined in terms of a game. A game has a set of rules, which participants must follow. The game has boundaries such as a basketball court, baseball park, or tennis court. The game requires specific skills to thrive and practices to compete well. A professional baseball player runs …
VUCAN DRIVERS – PRACTICES Old Norm New Norm Cause and effect relationships Interacting relationships Rear view focused Future focused Black and white problems Shades of gray problems Where we work Why and how we work Normal abilities Competitive abilities Work management Self management Work management Risk management Risk management professional Everyone’s a risk manager Externally driven choices Internally …
Principles and Practices work together. Principles focus on knowing the ‘why’ of your work. Then, Practices focus on knowing and improving the ‘how’s’ of your work. You can think of Practices as VUCAN hacks and tools of work. Machines can do a lot of our rote work. But, our individual creativity and competencies are what differentiates and sets us …
What are you doing to manage your life and work risks related to COVID? How are you and your family coping with COVID? What keeps you up at night regarding COVID? What matters to you during the COVID crisis? Why? What three words describe your core values? Is your worka calling? What makes you happy? …
Now think about your risk tolerance for munchies grocery shopping through the lens of risk. So, you got the munchies. You want to go to the corner grocery to buy a bag of chips. Got it. Simple. Fast. Satisfying. Whoa. Now, this simple choice may be life and death threatening. Did you think of? “Prepare …
Your mind is working its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity. Banksy – Street Artist A final thought for this section: healthy paranoia is a necessary condition for Working It. Paranoia is not a medicated condition. It’s not a psychiatric condition. …
Principles: A basic truth, law, or assumption; a basic source. American Heritage Dictionary My personal Working It rules distilled from many Work Lessons Earned are: Action spurs activity from which you can learn (take a risk). Do what you hate, first. You’re now a risk manager. Risks create opportunities in your life and work. 80% of life …