Career evolution ^© in a world relentlessly moving toward unimagined futureS

The society of organizations demands of the individual decisions regarding himself.

At first sight, the decision may appear only to concern career and livelihood.

“What shall I do?” is the form in which the question is usually asked.

But actually it reflects a demand that the individual take responsibility for society and its institutions.

“What cause do I want to serve?” is implied.

The World is Full of Options

Carefully choosing your nonprofit affiliations (beware of scams and inside-out bureaucracies because society suffers the consequences and you are part of society.

If they don’t produce the desired results outside of themselves then we have to pay a second or a third or a fourth … organization until we get what is needed.)

And underlying this question is the demand the individual take responsibility for himself.

Managing Oneself then …

The Effective Executive: Preface

“What shall I do with myself?” rather than “’What shall I do?” is really being asked of the young by the multitude of choices around them.

The society of organizations forces the individual to ask of himself:

“Who am I?”

“What do I want to be?”

“What do I want to put into life and what do I want to get out of it?”

read more on how can the individual survive …

The Age of Discontinuity:
Guidelines To Our Changing Society
enhanced by bobembry

 

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... replace the quest for success with the quest for contribution.
(to the society of organizations moving in time — above)

The critical question is not, “How can I achieve?”
but “What can  I  contribute?”

The Daily Drucker

 

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You can’t design your life around a temporary organization

Successful careers are not planned

They develop when people are prepared
for opportunities
because they know
their strengths,
their method of work, and
their values.

Knowing where one belongs
can transform an ordinary person
—hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre—
into an outstanding performer.

Larger

Managing Oneself and Living in More than One World

To get the benefits you have to calendarize these

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“What do you need to learn to get the most out of your strengths?”

The World is Full of Options

“What do you need to learn so that you can decide where to go next?”

Managing in a Time of Great Change

 

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The three types of intelligence discussed in The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Types of behavior that can be observed …

 

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… “Power has to be used.

It is a reality.

If the decent and idealistic toss power in the gutter, the guttersnipes pick it up.

If the able and educated refuse to exercise power responsibly, irresponsible and incompetent people take over the seats of the mighty and the levers of power.

Power not being used for social purposes passes to people who use it for their own ends.

At best it is taken over by the careerists who are led by their own timidity into becoming arbitrary, autocratic, and bureaucratic.”

— How Can The Individual Survive?
The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines To Our Changing Society
by Peter Drucker

 

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What do you want to be remembered for?

In Landmarks of Tomorrow, Peter Drucker wrote “everyone is an understudy to the leading role in the drama of human destiny” and the “great roles are not written in the iambic pentameter or the Alexandrine of the heroic theater.”

They are, instead, “prosaic — played out in one’s daily life, in one’s work, in one’s citizenship, in one’s compassion or lack of it, in one’s courage to stick on an unpopular principle, and in one’s refusal to sanction man’s inhumanity to man in an age of cruelty and moral numbness.”

Its not possible to work on things that aren't on your radar:

Starting points:

Peter Drucker's Career and Life Guidance

Early Career Work (lots of useful links and other launching pad concepts)

Managing Oneself

The educated person

"What do you want to be remembered for?"

Don't just read—calendarize!!!

Remember seriously evil people have dreams and goals just like constructive people do.

What are the right dreams and goals?

Concepts to daily action

Career and Life Guidance from Peter Drucker
is attention-directing work

The Daily Drucker covers a broad range of topics

Further up the ladder there's The Effective Executive

The Educated Person

Larger view (outline)

Later there's The Second Half of Your Life

In parallel there is Thinking and Living in More Than One World

Conceptual resources can be useful attention–directing tools. Here's a list of mostly book outlines

Management, Revised Edition

Management Cases (Revised Edition)

Managing the Non-Profit Organization

Topics

Work life brainscape

Current strategic system (Is this OK?)

The Man Behind the Curtain in the Hewlett-Compaq Merger

What Executives Should Remember

Knowledge Technologist

Work life terrain view

Work and effort directions

Career work map

Future of work?

Resume and Job Interview Work Planning

Self placement :: Placing oneself in new desirable work situations

Exposure management

Networking

Work search OR Job search

New job game plan

Winning: The Answers: Confronting 74 of the Toughest Questions in Business Today by Jack and Suzy Welch

Choosing non-profit affiliations

Why Some Older Executives Land Jobs—and Others Don't

Founder and Venture Capital realities

The Second Half of Your Life

Board membership

CEO work area landscapes

TLN keywords: tlnkwcareerevolution

#tgd

“The greatest danger

in times of turbulence

is not turbulence;

it is to act

with yesterday’s logic”.

— Peter Drucker

The shift from manual workers
who do as they are being told —
either by the task or by the boss —

TO knowledge workers

who have to

manage themselves ↓

profoundly challenges social structure …

“Managing Oneself (PDF) is a REVOLUTION in human affairs.” …



“It also requires an almost 180-degree change in the knowledge workers’ thoughts and actions from what most of us—even of the younger generation—still take for granted as the way to think and the way to act.” …



… “Managing Oneself is based on the very opposite realities:


Workers are likely to outlive organizations
(and therefore, employers can’t be depended on for designing your life),

and the knowledge worker has mobility.” ← in a context

“More than anything else,

the individual
has to take more responsibility
for himself or herself,
rather than depend on the company.”
continue ↓

“Making a living is no longer enough
‘Work’ has to make a life .” continue

… finding and selecting the pieces of the puzzle

The Second Curve

These pages are attention directing tools

for navigating changing worldS — worldS relentlessly

moving toward unimagined futures.

What’s the next effective action on the road ahead

It’s up to you to figure out what to harvest and calendarize
— working something out in time (1915, 1940, 1970 … 2040 … the outer limit of your concern) — nobody is going to do it for you.

It may be a step forward to actively reject something (rather than just passively ignoring) and then working out a plan for coping with what you’ve rejected.

Your future is between your ears and our future is between our collective ears — it can’t be otherwise.

A site exploration: The memo THEY don't want you to see

What needs doing?

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Larger view thinking canvas

The Über Mentor

The Drucker Lectures:
Essential Lessons on
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A Year with Peter Drucker:
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