Who are your direct customers and stakeholders? How do you satisfy your stakeholders? Is your work value adding? How is your value measured? Do they know or see the value of your contributions? How does your customer or boss value your contributions? What are your time constraints? How do you manage your time around these …
What do you think is more important to career success – people skills or technical skills? Recent Bell Lab studies indicate your emotional quotient, the EQ, is now as important to your long-term success as your IQ. IQ, the intelligence quotient, was once thought to be the key to career success. Many are finding that …
I personally don’t like the word ‘execute.’ It is negative. It implies a very unforgiving downside. However, get used to it. You’ll be hearing it much more often. A little story may help explain the term. Most consultants, managers, and executives are fond of planning. Planning is high level and strategic. Planning is antiseptic. Planning …
If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it and it won’t happen. Anonymous Sustainability? Green technology? Carbon Emissions? These are paradigm busters. You may be a green believer or even an evangelist. Or, you may be a heretic. It really doesn’t matter. We are in a heating global environmental and in a changing …
We’re in the age of the idea. The organizations that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners. Kevin Roberts, CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi I think that knowledge management is the key to career survivability and success over the next ten years because of the half-life of knowledge. Half-life …
‘Stress kills’ often times sounds like a platitude. It’s heard so often that it seems meaningless. You say: “OK. I got it, but that’s the state of work and state of life these days.” Well, I work for a company that does homeland security audits, specifically Critical Infrastructure Protection: Forensics, Assurance, Analytics. Talking about tension, …
A friend of mine said: “The most important thing in an employee is character.” OK. Later on I heard the expression: “Character is destiny.” As I got a little older, I got it. A few stories may illustrate this. I did a favor for a person. It was not a big deal for me. It …
One of the only ways to compete is with technology. John Beakes, Industrialist I’m surprised how many folks are techno-phobes in a techno-economy. Wonder why? When you hear the following words, what do you think about? Faster. Better. Killer. Cheaper. Smaller. Technology and specifically the computer are usually at the heart of the change. …
All business proceeds on beliefs or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties. Charles Eliot, President Harvard University By consciously or unconsciously calculating probabilities, we make intelligent decisions and take control of our lives. We don’t make a conscious risk analysis but intuitively look at alternatives at how we live day-to-day. When we’re confident …
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but by how well we are understood. Andrew Grove, CEO Intel Communications are vital to all work and career decision-making. If vision, mission, values, culture, goals, plans, policies, and procedures are not uniformly understood, then they won’t be followed. It all …