Knowing when and how to self-disrupt are among the key self management questions that you need to ask. Take a look and answer the below questions: Do you know the VUCAN leaders in your organization? What makes them effective and efficient? Or not? Do your VUCAN managers know the present game (competitive) rules? And, do […]
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If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn – Author and Entrepreneur Self management is the art of taking responsibility and the science of taking control of your behavior, health, spirit, work, career, and life. Self
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Most powerful question leader can ask: ‘How can I help you do your job better’? John Baldoni – Writer/author Line workers have been treated like LIFO inventory – Last In – First Out. But executives making millions a year are in the ‘execution’ bucket. Do. Do good. Meet targets. No quarterly numbers. No job. Not too
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I’m going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life. David Plotz – Journalist Work metaphors offer visuals, beacons, insights scripts, and lessons. Metaphors provide us a vision of what to expect from work. The career ladder is a great visual metaphor. A person started at the bottom and with the right effort climbed each rung.
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Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it. Jay Samit – Manager, Writer & Entrepreneur Many fresh MBAs want to go into management thinking that’s the way to power, perks, and bucks. I don’t want to seem like a Cassandra, but …. There are lots of COVID disruptions occurring in management.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy – President of the U.S. I like books that ‘tell it like it is.’ No sugar coating risks and bad behaviors. Marshall Goldsmith – the consummate executive coach – came
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People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so. Sharon Stone – Actor I know lots of tech wizards in software, finance, and engineering. These wizards are uber geeks and they rule! Only one problem! Many wizards are turkeys with people. They lack people or social skills. These nice VUCANs went
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What’s your value-add to me – your employer? This is what most employers think? Tough thinking. Well, that’s the basis of a free market economy. My doc’s brother went to Harvard and got a history degree. The world doesn’t employ too many historians. What to do? Later in life the Harvard grad reinvented himself as an
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The above title was from a Consumer Reports Magazine cover article. Lots of articles on this. ‘Most Americans with Student Debt Regret it?’ is a similar story in Motley’s Fool Magazine.‘[i] College remorse: nearly 75% (college students) wish they’d made different decisions’ about college and loans. I keep coming back to this theme throughout the
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Gartner says only 20 percent of employees have the skills needed for both their current role and their future career. Gartner – Consulting Organization Post COVID, millennials around the world may be a ‘lost work generation’. One major reason is most recent college graduates are not prepared for work through poor self management. The numbers are stunning:
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