Thursday, November 15, 2007
'career & self growth' by Michelle Casto
" Career growth experts say that people will change careers ( not jobs) 5 to 7 times in a lifetime. This being true, career management is an important lifeskill to develop and cultivate.
In the assessment stage, you are getting ready for your life's work. You start to feel like you want to know more about yourself, and make a consciuos effort to get in touch with who you really are.
In the investigation stage, you are researching what works exist in the world. You may feel overwhelmed with all of different opportunties that exist as you begin the process of reserach the modern world of work.
In the preperation stage, you are still getting ready to do your life's work. This is stage is charactarized by feelings of excitement, as you think of how wonderful it will be to perform meaningful work.
In the committment stage, you willl feel confident , in that you have figured out what you mean to do . Sometimes people have known all along what they are meant to do . But were not able to committ to the process of making it happen. For what ever reason.
In the retention stage, you will feel comfortable in your career field. As you will now have figured out, how things work in your industry. You will want to remain committed to your career by continually updating your skills sets and staying current with industry standards.
The transition stage is charactarised by feelings of discomfort. In that you are unsure of what you will be doing next.
In the next stage, you will learn to make conscious changes in your career direction.
ACTION EXERCISES :
1. At What stage YOU are in presently ? Some 6 stages have been mentioned above.
2. What SHOLD YOU DO, to go to the next stage ?
-- Excerpted from " SELF GROWTH " by Michelle Casto.
In the assessment stage, you are getting ready for your life's work. You start to feel like you want to know more about yourself, and make a consciuos effort to get in touch with who you really are.
In the investigation stage, you are researching what works exist in the world. You may feel overwhelmed with all of different opportunties that exist as you begin the process of reserach the modern world of work.
In the preperation stage, you are still getting ready to do your life's work. This is stage is charactarized by feelings of excitement, as you think of how wonderful it will be to perform meaningful work.
In the committment stage, you willl feel confident , in that you have figured out what you mean to do . Sometimes people have known all along what they are meant to do . But were not able to committ to the process of making it happen. For what ever reason.
In the retention stage, you will feel comfortable in your career field. As you will now have figured out, how things work in your industry. You will want to remain committed to your career by continually updating your skills sets and staying current with industry standards.
The transition stage is charactarised by feelings of discomfort. In that you are unsure of what you will be doing next.
In the next stage, you will learn to make conscious changes in your career direction.
ACTION EXERCISES :
1. At What stage YOU are in presently ? Some 6 stages have been mentioned above.
2. What SHOLD YOU DO, to go to the next stage ?
-- Excerpted from " SELF GROWTH " by Michelle Casto.
"integrity in leadership " by Peter F Drucker
The proof of the sincerity and seriousness of a management is uncompromising emphasis on integrity of character. This , above all, has to be symbolised in management's " people" decisions.
For , it is character through which leadership is exercised ; it is character that sets the example and is imitated. Character is not something one can fool people about ! The people with whom a person works, and especially subordinates, know in a few weeks whether he or she has integrity or not. They may forgive a person for a great deal : incompetence, ignorance, insecurity, or bad manners. But they will NOT forgive a lack of integrity in that person. Nor will they forgive higher managemen for chooosing him !
This is particulary true of the people at the head of an enterprise. For the spirit of an organisation is created from the top. If an organisation is great in spirit, it is because the spirit of its top peope is great.
If it decays, it does so because the top rots ; as the proverb has it, " trees die from top :".
No one shold ever be appointed to a senior position uless tp managemen is wiling to have his or her characterserve as the model for subordinates.
Action point : Evaluate the character of the CEO and top management when considering a job offer. Align yourself with people who have integrity.
" Integrity in leadership " by Peter F Drucker
For , it is character through which leadership is exercised ; it is character that sets the example and is imitated. Character is not something one can fool people about ! The people with whom a person works, and especially subordinates, know in a few weeks whether he or she has integrity or not. They may forgive a person for a great deal : incompetence, ignorance, insecurity, or bad manners. But they will NOT forgive a lack of integrity in that person. Nor will they forgive higher managemen for chooosing him !
This is particulary true of the people at the head of an enterprise. For the spirit of an organisation is created from the top. If an organisation is great in spirit, it is because the spirit of its top peope is great.
If it decays, it does so because the top rots ; as the proverb has it, " trees die from top :".
No one shold ever be appointed to a senior position uless tp managemen is wiling to have his or her characterserve as the model for subordinates.
Action point : Evaluate the character of the CEO and top management when considering a job offer. Align yourself with people who have integrity.
" Integrity in leadership " by Peter F Drucker
Saturday, November 10, 2007
"overcoming epistemology"by Charles Taylor
OVERCOMING EPISTEMOLOGY " BY CHARLES TAYLOR
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The ideal of self-responsibilty is foundational to modern culture. It emeres not only in our picture of the growth of modern science through the heroism of the great sceitist, standing against the opinion of his age on the basis of his own self responsibilte certainty - Copernicus, Galileo ( he wobbled a bit before the Holy Office, but who can blame him ? ), Darwin, Freud. It is also closedly linked to the modern ideal of freedom as self-autonomy. To be free in the modern sense is to be self-responsble, to rely on your own judgement, to find your purpose in yourself. And so the espistemological tradition is also intricateed in a certain notion of freedom, and the dignity attaching to us in virtue of this.
The theory of knowledge partly draws its strength from this connection. But, reciprocally, the ideal of freedom has also drawn strength from its sensed connection with the construal of knowledge seemily favoured by modern sceience. From this point of view, it is fateful that this notion of freedom has been interpreted as involving certain key theses about the nature of the human agent ; we might call them anthropological beliefs. Whether these are in fact insepreable from the modern aspiration to autonomy is an open question, and a very important one.
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The ideal of self-responsibilty is foundational to modern culture. It emeres not only in our picture of the growth of modern science through the heroism of the great sceitist, standing against the opinion of his age on the basis of his own self responsibilte certainty - Copernicus, Galileo ( he wobbled a bit before the Holy Office, but who can blame him ? ), Darwin, Freud. It is also closedly linked to the modern ideal of freedom as self-autonomy. To be free in the modern sense is to be self-responsble, to rely on your own judgement, to find your purpose in yourself. And so the espistemological tradition is also intricateed in a certain notion of freedom, and the dignity attaching to us in virtue of this.
The theory of knowledge partly draws its strength from this connection. But, reciprocally, the ideal of freedom has also drawn strength from its sensed connection with the construal of knowledge seemily favoured by modern sceience. From this point of view, it is fateful that this notion of freedom has been interpreted as involving certain key theses about the nature of the human agent ; we might call them anthropological beliefs. Whether these are in fact insepreable from the modern aspiration to autonomy is an open question, and a very important one.
Seems to be great writer on philosophy, human anthropology etc. Wrote on Self, Hegel, Multiculturalism, Society,and there is his biography Mr.Nicolas H.Smith which received a 5 point rating.
Read on .
VALUE INVESTING' by BRUCE GREENWALD
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iF YOU THINK THAT STOCK PRICES NORMALLY OVER OR UNDERVALUE A CMPAN'S WORTH, YOU WILL FIND THIS BOOK FASNCINATING. tHE ETHODS AND INVESTORS OUTLINES HAE SUCCESSFULLY BEATEN THE MARKET AVERAGES FOR DECADES. sO, WHETHER YOU TRY TO APPLY THE CONCEPTS FOR YOURSELF, OR HAVE YOUR MONEY INVESTED BY ONE OF THESE TOP VALUE INVESTMENT MANAGERS, ALUE INVESTING IS A DESCIPLINE THA CAN HELP YOU ACHIEVE SUPERIOR INVESTING RESULTS. iN SOME OF HTE MANY BACK TESTS RUN IN RECENT YEARS TO TEST FOR MARKET EFFICIENCY CONCERNING STOCK PRICES, SIMPLY BUYING STOCKS WITH LOW PRICE / EARNINGS AND PRICE/ BOOK RATIOS PROVES TO OUTPOERFORM THE MARKET AVERAGES. mORE THOUGHTFUL STOCK ICKING CAN DO EVEN BETTER. bUT THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK AR FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT. vALUE INVESTING SHOWS THE MANY WAYS THAT SITUATIONS WHERE SECURITIES ARE UNDERPRICES CAN BE FOUND AND EXPLOITED. YOU SHOULD REALISE THAT VALUE INVESTING IS AN INTELLECTUAL AND CROSS CHECKING EXERCISE, FAR REMOVED FROM EMOTION OF TTHE DA-TRADING AND THE THRILLS OF FOLLOWING TRADING MOMENTUM. yEARS CAN PASS WIHTOUT ANY GOOD OPPORTUNITIES ARISING. yOU WILL OFTEN SELL STAOCKS FAR BEFORE THEIR ULTIMATE PEAK. ONE OF HTE HARDEST THINGS TO ACCOMODATE IS THAT OUR RESULTS WILL LOOK WORST WHEN EERYONE ELSE IS PICKING UP EASY MONEY., MINDLESSL, BY RUNNING WITH THE HERD OF RAMPAGING BULLS.
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iF YOU THINK THAT STOCK PRICES NORMALLY OVER OR UNDERVALUE A CMPAN'S WORTH, YOU WILL FIND THIS BOOK FASNCINATING. tHE ETHODS AND INVESTORS OUTLINES HAE SUCCESSFULLY BEATEN THE MARKET AVERAGES FOR DECADES. sO, WHETHER YOU TRY TO APPLY THE CONCEPTS FOR YOURSELF, OR HAVE YOUR MONEY INVESTED BY ONE OF THESE TOP VALUE INVESTMENT MANAGERS, ALUE INVESTING IS A DESCIPLINE THA CAN HELP YOU ACHIEVE SUPERIOR INVESTING RESULTS. iN SOME OF HTE MANY BACK TESTS RUN IN RECENT YEARS TO TEST FOR MARKET EFFICIENCY CONCERNING STOCK PRICES, SIMPLY BUYING STOCKS WITH LOW PRICE / EARNINGS AND PRICE/ BOOK RATIOS PROVES TO OUTPOERFORM THE MARKET AVERAGES. mORE THOUGHTFUL STOCK ICKING CAN DO EVEN BETTER. bUT THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK AR FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT. vALUE INVESTING SHOWS THE MANY WAYS THAT SITUATIONS WHERE SECURITIES ARE UNDERPRICES CAN BE FOUND AND EXPLOITED. YOU SHOULD REALISE THAT VALUE INVESTING IS AN INTELLECTUAL AND CROSS CHECKING EXERCISE, FAR REMOVED FROM EMOTION OF TTHE DA-TRADING AND THE THRILLS OF FOLLOWING TRADING MOMENTUM. yEARS CAN PASS WIHTOUT ANY GOOD OPPORTUNITIES ARISING. yOU WILL OFTEN SELL STAOCKS FAR BEFORE THEIR ULTIMATE PEAK. ONE OF HTE HARDEST THINGS TO ACCOMODATE IS THAT OUR RESULTS WILL LOOK WORST WHEN EERYONE ELSE IS PICKING UP EASY MONEY., MINDLESSL, BY RUNNING WITH THE HERD OF RAMPAGING BULLS.
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"Becoming a Manager" by Linda Hill
" Through my research, teaching, and consulting over the past 10 years, I have come to understand more deeply than ever, that the best managers are those who have an appetite for learning and are willing to work on themselves.
Management is VERY HARD !! Even the most gifted people must commit themselves to lifelong learning and self-development.
Although some of the qualities of effective managment are " innate " and inborn, or acquired principally through pre-work socialisation ( personal integrity, high energy level, and a drive to lead), much of leadership is learned ! Management is primarily learned from the on-the-job experiences-by doing, observing, and interacting with others. As unsettling as it is, we hae found that the essence of development is DIVERSITY AND ADVERSITY.
As many have observed, however, people do not always learn from their experiences ! To make meaning from their experiences, managers need to reflect on and and consolidate the lessons of those experiences.
To change and grow, they must be prepared to engage periodically in introspection. The difficulty in remaining objective about oneself, however,is well documented. There are mechanisms that keep people from honestly evaluating themselves. The more candid feedback that managers can obtain from varied sources, the more accurate and precise their assessment will be . --
From " Becoming a Manager " by Linda A.Hill.
Management is VERY HARD !! Even the most gifted people must commit themselves to lifelong learning and self-development.
Although some of the qualities of effective managment are " innate " and inborn, or acquired principally through pre-work socialisation ( personal integrity, high energy level, and a drive to lead), much of leadership is learned ! Management is primarily learned from the on-the-job experiences-by doing, observing, and interacting with others. As unsettling as it is, we hae found that the essence of development is DIVERSITY AND ADVERSITY.
As many have observed, however, people do not always learn from their experiences ! To make meaning from their experiences, managers need to reflect on and and consolidate the lessons of those experiences.
To change and grow, they must be prepared to engage periodically in introspection. The difficulty in remaining objective about oneself, however,is well documented. There are mechanisms that keep people from honestly evaluating themselves. The more candid feedback that managers can obtain from varied sources, the more accurate and precise their assessment will be . --
From " Becoming a Manager " by Linda A.Hill.
"Brazen Careerist"by Penelope Trunk
" If you want people to like you, give them compliments. If you understand what worries someone, and what he is trying hardest to achieve personally, then you will easily spot opportnities for praise. Don't just say , " good job " for the sake of it ! in fact, don't just say " good job ". The most effective compliments are very specific. And creative words are more memorable than standard words.
The most common types of praise are about possessions " Nice car" or about actions " great shot". Praise of character is the most rare and most memorable praise of all ! Bu it's also the most difficult because it requires you to understand the person you are praising and be thoughtful about how you talk to them.
To find genuine ways oto compliment people rquires spending a lot of time looking for the good in people. To increase the weight of your compliments, establish yourself as a trusted resource.. to make a genuine connection, give genuine compliments , but balance them with insightful criticism. With the right balance people will view you as a smarter person and they will take all your comments ( compliments and criticism) seriously.
So, concentrate on the good in people, and compliment it throughout the day, you jsut might feel like you are actually surrounded by kind, competenet and interesting people. And research shows that they will find you to be more kind and competenet as well.
ACTION EXERCISES : 1. First, do it with yourself. Take a paper and write all that is good in you . And balance it with construcive self criticism. ( Time : 15 minutes)
2. List 5 people you have a ' troublesome relationship'. Do it with them. Write down all their possible plus points. Tell them.Balance it with constructive criticism. (Time for prep : 20 minutes)
Excerpted from : " Brazen Careerist " by Ms.Penelope Trunk.
The most common types of praise are about possessions " Nice car" or about actions " great shot". Praise of character is the most rare and most memorable praise of all ! Bu it's also the most difficult because it requires you to understand the person you are praising and be thoughtful about how you talk to them.
To find genuine ways oto compliment people rquires spending a lot of time looking for the good in people. To increase the weight of your compliments, establish yourself as a trusted resource.. to make a genuine connection, give genuine compliments , but balance them with insightful criticism. With the right balance people will view you as a smarter person and they will take all your comments ( compliments and criticism) seriously.
So, concentrate on the good in people, and compliment it throughout the day, you jsut might feel like you are actually surrounded by kind, competenet and interesting people. And research shows that they will find you to be more kind and competenet as well.
ACTION EXERCISES : 1. First, do it with yourself. Take a paper and write all that is good in you . And balance it with construcive self criticism. ( Time : 15 minutes)
2. List 5 people you have a ' troublesome relationship'. Do it with them. Write down all their possible plus points. Tell them.Balance it with constructive criticism. (Time for prep : 20 minutes)
Excerpted from : " Brazen Careerist " by Ms.Penelope Trunk.
