As we develop ourselves and our professional skills there are those that are 100% portable and those that may or may not move with us as we move through our careers. I spent ten years in the training and development…
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3D Competence: Domain Knowledge v Core Competencies
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Collectivism v Individualism in work teams Part II
Monday I identified the following four issues with our current approach to team building and productivity in the workplace. Our systems of evaluation and compensation are all skewed toward individual performance rather than team performance. Our management structures tend to…
Tagged with: appraisal, leadership, performance, productivity, team chemistry, teamwork
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What I did on my summer vacation: Brazil, Boston, Beards
Is there a beneficial collectivism that supports and maintains the individual while enhancing the chances for attaining success en toto? Really, that’s your first sentence after two weeks vacation? I have spent the last two weeks with my wife’s family…
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Mental Ecology
You are responsible for what you hold in your mind, not for what goes through it. – John-Roger, D.S.S. “I will jump that fence and fight every n***** here,” Riley Cooper, Philadelphia Eagles Both of these seemingly unrelated tidbits entered…
Tagged with: action, flexibility, health, leadership, learning, limiting beliefs, mental ecology, mental filters, politics, productivity, racisim, resistance, self management, society, teamwork, wellness, win/win
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The win at all costs culture
Performance enhancement. It’s all over the sports pages, it dominated the business news during the credit default crisis, it fills your email spam folder. So we could take the conversation in a lot of directions. Is it a predominantly male…
Tagged with: alignment, dovetailed outcomes, flexibility, goals, leadership, Practice, Preparation, productivity, projects, Purpose, self management
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Make it your own.
My wife and I are doing a renovation project on our kitchen. So many lessons of this home project are applicable to my work projects. Having a vision of the outcome is critical, of course. Here is another. To make…
Tagged with: alignment, focus, leadership, Practice, Preparation, productivity, projects, Purpose, self management, software, technology, tools, vision
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Blazing new Frontiers
I was thinking this morning about how I admire people who light out on their own and build something new. That doesn’t have to be inventing the geodesic dome (but I did watch a YouTube video on Buckminster Fuller). It could be…
Tagged with: focus, goals, innovation, inspiration, leadership, new frontier, Practice, Preparation, productivity, Purpose, self management, vision
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Day Seven – Chakras and Productivity
The Seventh Chakra, called Sahasrara, is the 1,000 petal lotus at the crown of the head. This is the area of true inspiration and purpose. Some would call it our connection to the divine. Maybe Plato would have called it…
Tagged with: chakra, cycle of completion, feedback, focus, Getting Things Done, goals, higher self, inspiration, Joy, leadership, Practice, Preparation, productivity, Purpose, self management, wellness, wisdom, Yoga
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Pressure Cooker v. Crock Pot
I can’t tell you the physics behind these cooking methods but I find the results similar in many ways. I used to have a crock pot or slow cooker in my college dorm room. We made a lot of soups…
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Avuncular
We’re born to our parents. We love them or not. The former is a great blessing, the latter a burden. We make friends, some for a lifetime, some for a season or two. They sustain us and connect us with…
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