I have been reading many articles about Cloud Computing and just now starting to get an idea of what it is all about.
Cloud computing can be thought of in a matrix sort of manner or a flow chart model. Think for a minute where all your contacts come in that you manage such as Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, etc. It is a paradigm shift following the shift from mainframe to client–servers dating back to the 1980s. It simply puts control of these technologies into a third parties control releaving the need for someone or a company to multitask and manage these systems themselves.
Thinking from an abstract point of view each technology becomes a puff in the cloud allowing these platforms to be controled by someone else but allowing more than one computer to access their needs. It is typically the way I seem to understand it is you are renting space and access to each platform that you require use and someone else bears the headaches of managing them ensuring you have access to your files.
Wiki describes it as "It is a byproduct and consequence of the ease-of-access to remote computing sites provided by the Internet. This frequently takes the form of web-based tools or applications that users can access and use through a web browser as if it were a program installed locally on their own computer. The term "cloud" is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the cloud drawing used in the past to represent the telephone network,and later to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams as an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it represents. Typical cloud computing providers deliver common business applications online that are accessed from another Web service or software like a Web browser, while the software and data are stored on servers. A key element of cloud computing is customization and the creation of a user-defined experience."
Now that we have some idea of what cloud computing is all about which appears to be slimplistic in many fashions. Less upkeep from the IT service within a company or platforms to maintain on an individual computer. In my next Cloud Computing post I want to examine how Cloud computing can help inventory or in a Warehouse Management System (WMS) environment. Stay tune!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Have We Really Sunk This Low
You know there was a show once called Soylent Green where by the age of 60 your number was pulled and you were required to go to a certain place where your demise ended with you being turned into fertilizer, hence the name Soy (Soil) Green?
With so much hype about age discrimination and society being big on youth, maintaining your youth we have simple gotten away from reality. Now I am not writing this to show any sort of rage against youth because like everyone else I do not want to grow old either. I try to take care of myself so I can be agile, have good health although I probably need to lose a good 20 pounds but I read so much about how post, blogs, the news, commercials, advertisements are always saying do what ever you need to do to remain young. Now we know age discrimination has always been around as far back probably since cave dwellers. Nevertheless, it appears it is becoming so in depth with society that employment is suffering. Good people with mounds of experience, great minds and wonderful talent is being put out to pasture because they are simply depicted as an ole cow. Now you’re being told how to appear for job interviews and I am not talking about dressing for success or making sure your shoes are shined nor what color blouse to wear. You are being told to dye your hair, wear trendy accessories and front a big fake. Therefore, we are being taught that lying is ok.
Were we not taught as we were growing up to be who we are and not try to be someone we were not? We were also taught never to lie. Lying just leads to trouble and eventually you will be caught. Look around in social relationships, online dating, reading people’s profiles what is the one thing that majority of lookers are saying? If you are a liar stay away, I am not into liars. I want someone honest. However, when you awake in the morning to go to that job interview you spend numerous hours prepping to become the biggest gimmick. To appear to be someone what you are not.
Now lying has taken on a different form. Once you have the job and you no longer want to dye your hair and the grey starts appearing or you simply did not have the time to do it this time, you are now showing your true self. Not to mention most people can tell within a few years of different genres, what era you stem from. Maybe you do keep up with certain trends, but let us face it, you cannot hide everything about where you came from, and the era you grew up. You might be able to fool the fool when interviewing, but just like a resume, if you put something down that might be stretching it, you will eventually be found out. I'm not saying it is wrong to keep up with trends if you so feel you need to, but it is like chasing a lie, you are forever having to cover it up and the wondering when can I ever be who I really am. In a comment posted, someone stated well once you get the job and you decide to let the gray show and the situation arises that you are older and something is made of it like losing your job, then you have a case to head to court. Do people really think the company will admit that they canned you because you were being fake? Not in a million years. You will never know the true reason. Who in their right mind would even begin to say “Mr. Jones, we need to remove you from your position because you have gray hair or you just are not who you said you were during the interview.”
My thoughts are plain and simple. Even though I‘ve been told I look younger than I really am, I am not going to lie about whom I am. Accept me or tell me I am just too old. People need to take America back. Things have changed without a doubt, but when you have to start playing fairytales just to keep a job, we have definitely stained our morals.
In addition, if that is the case everyone coming in the door will be hiding something. Is that the kind of company you want to work for, never knowing who is hiding something? One lie leads to another and another and you are always fighting to cover it up. It is what we been taught all our lives. So now, since we are deviating from what we have been taught we need to start teaching our kids in a different light, "it's ok to tell a lie!" Little white lies despite where and how they are used will eventually haunt you. I am not the kind to jeopardize or dignify the world by changing who I am and tossing my my ethics and moral standards. Then that is just me!
I was in a hiring position at one time, and the way I see things is if someone is going through all that trouble to be fake to get a job, how fake are they going to be at portraying and having the true ability to perform that job. Their attitude would have been compromised also. Their thoughts might very well be, "well I got away with it then, how much more can I get away with, if I just fake it!"
Say what you want folks as we do live in a different age, but we (society) are the only ones that can change things, if we want! What is next you are now 50 and you are trying to look forty. What will the genre do when they say we do not want 30 year olds, so they start trying to be something they are not? I have always had this thought that if Hollywood can produce a movie about it; it is not to far from being factual. Eventually we all lose.
I think the bigger question should be asked, what society is going to do when 10% unemployment becomes 20%, 30%. Someone will have to take care of these people or we will simply move into what we see in other third world countries. Is that what society is itching for. Greed so bad that only a certain few have everything and we let everyone else suffer? I was told that is what capitalism is all about. Is it really? To allow so many to suffer for so few to be rich?
In a technological perceptive country that is considered #1 in the world, someone will have to feed these people, whether it is corporations or the government. Even with Obamacare, you are still required to pay something, as I understand in order to obtain it. If that is the case, if I understand it correctly, who is going to pay for all these people that are unemployed, living on the street, running up to cars begging for food? Sounds far fetched, but so was landing on the moon back in the 40's and 50's but it happened!
Society is so worried about projecting youth. Where will wisdom come from? The world was not made by simply recreating the wheel each time you thought of an idea. Wisdom is what has allowed us to be where we are today. I am not saying this against the youth. We need to cherish our youth that is our future, but does youth have wisdom to foresee what could happen if we do the wrong thing? Does youth have anything to fall back on and someone to question when they should be moving forward? Who will they ask if we coral all the people that are 40 and over who might have experienced exactly what they are going through? Oh, I forgot we can just Google it!
I am not discounting thoughts or theorems on what is being projected out in society. Moreover, yes I realize we have to do our part or we will not be able to survive within our society. All I am trying to say is if we do not wake up as it was stated by Japan during the bombing of Pearl Harbor…"All we did is wake up a sleeping giant." Well society’s sleeping giant by today’s standards is disregarding the old, more room for the new. However, who creates the age line. Today anyone over 40 and definitely 50 is being considered old. Who keeps up with the scale of where old begins and where young ends? Someone commented to me on the wisdom factor and that there are many older people who appear to be wise but are nothing but old people who will not change their ways. And young people are not stupid they surely can think for themselves without the help from older people. Why some of this is true and yes, there will always be old geezers who think they are wise and will not change, and there are many young adults that brings future to the dismay, but if we do not learn or manage stability and equality, we will encompass bigger problems down the road.
Whether one wants to believe that or not. What we are dealing with is the quiet before the storm. We may be smarter than we were before the evolution of the civil rights and the woman’s movement, but that does not mean just because the majority agrees with things the way they are that things cannot change.
Those that seem to be making the rules as we play need to keep in mind they too will reach the avenues we're up against and then they will not have anyone to blame but themselves because they made the rules!
Generations have changed, I agree it is the way it is today, but it can change. If everyone continues to believe this is the way it is yes it will stay this way. How did we get to the realm we are at now before this type of social stigma came about? Someone or rather a portion of society, a group, something or whatever was bold enough to take a stand, said things have to change we are heading in a bad or indifferent direction, we want it to change, and this is where we are now. Just like the 60's and 70's and no I don't reminisce in the ole days as I can say I do keep up and believe and support technology; I'm just using as an example. People stood up to what they believed in. They stood on their beliefs. Now people see it as instead of standing up, I will just fit in. Good leadership has fallen, now we have a bunch of followers who appear to be leaders but they do not know which end they are following, the head or the tail. They have laws behind them to keep them at an advantage.
By no means am I saying anyone owes me anything so give me a job at my age. No, I am responsible for my own destiny. Nevertheless, within different types of turmoil come different reactions from people. There's a discussion on linked in, "How would you change the economy without creating a revolution!" Despite what we may believe in today’s cultured society, sometimes history does repeat itself to come to some sort of stabilization.
As I stated, I do not disagree with the facts of what today depicts, I personally prefer to be challenged on my own merits, not on what someone thinks I should be. I am a bad fit when it comes to faking things!
Lastly, I want to go back to the wisdom comments that I made and the response I received, as we do not need old wisdom. I am not a genius, scientist, or professor, but if what has been said about wisdom in the response I received “we do not need stereotypical old sage wisdom“, then why do we spend so much money going to college to learn from the old to bring light of the future? We are typically building new theory off old theorems. Without old theorems, we really would not be doing much of anything just reinventing what has already been invented, formulas, disease control, engineering philosophy, court cases (case studies), medical miracles,(transplants, etc.). Without the wisdom from these folks before us that spent the time and many given their lives fighting bureaucracy to derive at what we have been able to expand on today just exactly where would we be? Maybe I am wrong, but it is a thought to ponder.
Here's a site that talks about the need the future has for employing those of age and how companies will be welcoming them. Let's hope it comes to pass.
http://www.trainingfolks.net/publications/pub_013/Mature_Workforce.html
With so much hype about age discrimination and society being big on youth, maintaining your youth we have simple gotten away from reality. Now I am not writing this to show any sort of rage against youth because like everyone else I do not want to grow old either. I try to take care of myself so I can be agile, have good health although I probably need to lose a good 20 pounds but I read so much about how post, blogs, the news, commercials, advertisements are always saying do what ever you need to do to remain young. Now we know age discrimination has always been around as far back probably since cave dwellers. Nevertheless, it appears it is becoming so in depth with society that employment is suffering. Good people with mounds of experience, great minds and wonderful talent is being put out to pasture because they are simply depicted as an ole cow. Now you’re being told how to appear for job interviews and I am not talking about dressing for success or making sure your shoes are shined nor what color blouse to wear. You are being told to dye your hair, wear trendy accessories and front a big fake. Therefore, we are being taught that lying is ok.
Were we not taught as we were growing up to be who we are and not try to be someone we were not? We were also taught never to lie. Lying just leads to trouble and eventually you will be caught. Look around in social relationships, online dating, reading people’s profiles what is the one thing that majority of lookers are saying? If you are a liar stay away, I am not into liars. I want someone honest. However, when you awake in the morning to go to that job interview you spend numerous hours prepping to become the biggest gimmick. To appear to be someone what you are not.
Now lying has taken on a different form. Once you have the job and you no longer want to dye your hair and the grey starts appearing or you simply did not have the time to do it this time, you are now showing your true self. Not to mention most people can tell within a few years of different genres, what era you stem from. Maybe you do keep up with certain trends, but let us face it, you cannot hide everything about where you came from, and the era you grew up. You might be able to fool the fool when interviewing, but just like a resume, if you put something down that might be stretching it, you will eventually be found out. I'm not saying it is wrong to keep up with trends if you so feel you need to, but it is like chasing a lie, you are forever having to cover it up and the wondering when can I ever be who I really am. In a comment posted, someone stated well once you get the job and you decide to let the gray show and the situation arises that you are older and something is made of it like losing your job, then you have a case to head to court. Do people really think the company will admit that they canned you because you were being fake? Not in a million years. You will never know the true reason. Who in their right mind would even begin to say “Mr. Jones, we need to remove you from your position because you have gray hair or you just are not who you said you were during the interview.”
My thoughts are plain and simple. Even though I‘ve been told I look younger than I really am, I am not going to lie about whom I am. Accept me or tell me I am just too old. People need to take America back. Things have changed without a doubt, but when you have to start playing fairytales just to keep a job, we have definitely stained our morals.
In addition, if that is the case everyone coming in the door will be hiding something. Is that the kind of company you want to work for, never knowing who is hiding something? One lie leads to another and another and you are always fighting to cover it up. It is what we been taught all our lives. So now, since we are deviating from what we have been taught we need to start teaching our kids in a different light, "it's ok to tell a lie!" Little white lies despite where and how they are used will eventually haunt you. I am not the kind to jeopardize or dignify the world by changing who I am and tossing my my ethics and moral standards. Then that is just me!
I was in a hiring position at one time, and the way I see things is if someone is going through all that trouble to be fake to get a job, how fake are they going to be at portraying and having the true ability to perform that job. Their attitude would have been compromised also. Their thoughts might very well be, "well I got away with it then, how much more can I get away with, if I just fake it!"
Say what you want folks as we do live in a different age, but we (society) are the only ones that can change things, if we want! What is next you are now 50 and you are trying to look forty. What will the genre do when they say we do not want 30 year olds, so they start trying to be something they are not? I have always had this thought that if Hollywood can produce a movie about it; it is not to far from being factual. Eventually we all lose.
I think the bigger question should be asked, what society is going to do when 10% unemployment becomes 20%, 30%. Someone will have to take care of these people or we will simply move into what we see in other third world countries. Is that what society is itching for. Greed so bad that only a certain few have everything and we let everyone else suffer? I was told that is what capitalism is all about. Is it really? To allow so many to suffer for so few to be rich?
In a technological perceptive country that is considered #1 in the world, someone will have to feed these people, whether it is corporations or the government. Even with Obamacare, you are still required to pay something, as I understand in order to obtain it. If that is the case, if I understand it correctly, who is going to pay for all these people that are unemployed, living on the street, running up to cars begging for food? Sounds far fetched, but so was landing on the moon back in the 40's and 50's but it happened!
Society is so worried about projecting youth. Where will wisdom come from? The world was not made by simply recreating the wheel each time you thought of an idea. Wisdom is what has allowed us to be where we are today. I am not saying this against the youth. We need to cherish our youth that is our future, but does youth have wisdom to foresee what could happen if we do the wrong thing? Does youth have anything to fall back on and someone to question when they should be moving forward? Who will they ask if we coral all the people that are 40 and over who might have experienced exactly what they are going through? Oh, I forgot we can just Google it!
I am not discounting thoughts or theorems on what is being projected out in society. Moreover, yes I realize we have to do our part or we will not be able to survive within our society. All I am trying to say is if we do not wake up as it was stated by Japan during the bombing of Pearl Harbor…"All we did is wake up a sleeping giant." Well society’s sleeping giant by today’s standards is disregarding the old, more room for the new. However, who creates the age line. Today anyone over 40 and definitely 50 is being considered old. Who keeps up with the scale of where old begins and where young ends? Someone commented to me on the wisdom factor and that there are many older people who appear to be wise but are nothing but old people who will not change their ways. And young people are not stupid they surely can think for themselves without the help from older people. Why some of this is true and yes, there will always be old geezers who think they are wise and will not change, and there are many young adults that brings future to the dismay, but if we do not learn or manage stability and equality, we will encompass bigger problems down the road.
Whether one wants to believe that or not. What we are dealing with is the quiet before the storm. We may be smarter than we were before the evolution of the civil rights and the woman’s movement, but that does not mean just because the majority agrees with things the way they are that things cannot change.
Those that seem to be making the rules as we play need to keep in mind they too will reach the avenues we're up against and then they will not have anyone to blame but themselves because they made the rules!
Generations have changed, I agree it is the way it is today, but it can change. If everyone continues to believe this is the way it is yes it will stay this way. How did we get to the realm we are at now before this type of social stigma came about? Someone or rather a portion of society, a group, something or whatever was bold enough to take a stand, said things have to change we are heading in a bad or indifferent direction, we want it to change, and this is where we are now. Just like the 60's and 70's and no I don't reminisce in the ole days as I can say I do keep up and believe and support technology; I'm just using as an example. People stood up to what they believed in. They stood on their beliefs. Now people see it as instead of standing up, I will just fit in. Good leadership has fallen, now we have a bunch of followers who appear to be leaders but they do not know which end they are following, the head or the tail. They have laws behind them to keep them at an advantage.
By no means am I saying anyone owes me anything so give me a job at my age. No, I am responsible for my own destiny. Nevertheless, within different types of turmoil come different reactions from people. There's a discussion on linked in, "How would you change the economy without creating a revolution!" Despite what we may believe in today’s cultured society, sometimes history does repeat itself to come to some sort of stabilization.
As I stated, I do not disagree with the facts of what today depicts, I personally prefer to be challenged on my own merits, not on what someone thinks I should be. I am a bad fit when it comes to faking things!
Lastly, I want to go back to the wisdom comments that I made and the response I received, as we do not need old wisdom. I am not a genius, scientist, or professor, but if what has been said about wisdom in the response I received “we do not need stereotypical old sage wisdom“, then why do we spend so much money going to college to learn from the old to bring light of the future? We are typically building new theory off old theorems. Without old theorems, we really would not be doing much of anything just reinventing what has already been invented, formulas, disease control, engineering philosophy, court cases (case studies), medical miracles,(transplants, etc.). Without the wisdom from these folks before us that spent the time and many given their lives fighting bureaucracy to derive at what we have been able to expand on today just exactly where would we be? Maybe I am wrong, but it is a thought to ponder.
Here's a site that talks about the need the future has for employing those of age and how companies will be welcoming them. Let's hope it comes to pass.
http://www.trainingfolks.net/publications/pub_013/Mature_Workforce.html
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Contrary to Popular Belief
I know I seem to blog about what seems to be many types of subject matter. However, as a whole they always seem to circle around back to my experiences within management. Tonight I wanted to talk about what we type on our post, threads, profiles, etc.
So many people do not take heed in what has been said countless time after time, about what they type out there in cyber land. They rant, rave, show disgruntle and disrespect to fellow contributors it is just astonishing.
I will not sit and say I never get frustrated toward what some write or share, but I do not contribute to the cause by arguing with anyone just to prove my point. It is better to walk away with my integrity in tack than to argue with someone who refuses to see the light. You know their use to be an old saying "It is hard to win a battle of wits with someone who brings a knife to a gun fight!" There is a lot of meaning in that statement. Look around and what do you see constantly on sites, social, business, whatever the network site is; people are very revealing in what they say and what they show. I realize this subject have been tackled and spoke about many times in different forums, but tonight as I was visiting one of my threads, I watched someone call their parent stupid for their advice and yet did not understand why they were unemployed.
Maybe the case is not that someone will ever notice a comment like this and many will probably just blow it off as a moment in the person's life but it still grounds to pay attention.
In regards to anyone who challenges sights that just simply writes stuff with negativity, insults, disgruntled comments, there is wisdom that can be learned for people who contribute to this enigma.
I can honestly say, I listen, and I participate in several discussion groups. You will never see the many people out there who sit in the shadows. I posted a question in a Q&A forum a while back asking HR and recruiters do they review everything about an individual on linked in and do they follow them if they are interested in them.
The response was scattered. Some stated no, some stated to some degree but do not follow since they simply did not have the time. Others stated if it is someone we are interested in we will follow them, read their profile from top to bottom, learn about them, follow their Q&A activity and watch them in their discussions. Why you might ask? Well for the most part, you are relaxed in a general setting with people of like personalities and/or like situations and cannot wait to voice your opinion. You rebut to comments made, offer suggestions, comment in general, and make jokes and other things.
There are many people sitting outside discussions shadowing and just watching never offering to say anything. These HR or recruiters get a first hand idea of the type of person you are with your communications and how you handle certain dilemmas, case studies, contributions, etc. They view if you are argumentative, caring, your style of dealing with people, if you are easily frustrated, etc. You can actually tell someone's personality simply by the way him or her write.
I literally had a firm contact me a while back and strictly indicated they read my entire profile and even read my blog and liked what they saw and contacted me. I might not have got the job, but people are watching.
I have had this discussion numerous times with my children. At their age and as internet shrewdness as one would think they are you would think they would know better. Well, they say they do know. But each time I read something on one of their sites there is always curse words, cannot wait till the weekend for partying, it’s Friday, fixing to pop a top, having dinner and drinks, downing a few brews on the lake, etc. etc. You get the idea. I cannot make them understand.
The reasoning is it is their personal site, they only let someone they know on it. As anyone with internet savvy experience and by no means am I the expert, but if it can be captured it will. If you have 200 friends, and their friends each have 200 friends do you know who their friends are especially if you have given those friends you have authority to review your profiles and photos? In a tech savvy world that we live in do people not believe companies cannot find nor have ways to get around this. Are you so cautious that you will not slip up with one contact one day who happens to be friends with the boss or someone who wants your position at work? Trust is not something to be taken lightly in the world of greed, and identity theft. There is another saying, “Keep your friends close, your enemies closer!” You might be friends with someone on your social or business site but statistics proves that the average person has a true association with about 10 people in their social settings. Can you actually keep track of 200 so called friends? Do you know each step they make? Do you read every post each one of them makes? It is quite impossible. Then parents are not well informed enough to get this through their kids minds.
In closing, I always, always watch what I write, never imposing anything on anyone, just my thoughts, never taking sides, never being negative, a know it all, or disclosing anything that I wouldn't want grandma to hear. I give truth to my opinions, back it up with many facts when in Q&A forums, straight forward, but kind. I never side with anyone since it is typically an opinion and it simply my opinion and we all have one.
I ensure everything I post is spell checked and worded correctly to the best of my ability. No, I am not an English major but I try hard to ensure it is proper. Many people will not go to all these lengths, but as it has been indicated everything you say is stuck in cyber land despite saying I will delete it; it is out there. Negatives and discontented comments should immediately be struck off by deleting. There is no need to fuel fires if at all you can help it.
One day in all of our distant futures when something we want badly enough comes knocking someone will pull out something that we said or stated and the anarchy begins. It is not like the ole days, it is way too easy to dispel someone over a simple comment.
So many people do not take heed in what has been said countless time after time, about what they type out there in cyber land. They rant, rave, show disgruntle and disrespect to fellow contributors it is just astonishing.
I will not sit and say I never get frustrated toward what some write or share, but I do not contribute to the cause by arguing with anyone just to prove my point. It is better to walk away with my integrity in tack than to argue with someone who refuses to see the light. You know their use to be an old saying "It is hard to win a battle of wits with someone who brings a knife to a gun fight!" There is a lot of meaning in that statement. Look around and what do you see constantly on sites, social, business, whatever the network site is; people are very revealing in what they say and what they show. I realize this subject have been tackled and spoke about many times in different forums, but tonight as I was visiting one of my threads, I watched someone call their parent stupid for their advice and yet did not understand why they were unemployed.
Maybe the case is not that someone will ever notice a comment like this and many will probably just blow it off as a moment in the person's life but it still grounds to pay attention.
In regards to anyone who challenges sights that just simply writes stuff with negativity, insults, disgruntled comments, there is wisdom that can be learned for people who contribute to this enigma.
I can honestly say, I listen, and I participate in several discussion groups. You will never see the many people out there who sit in the shadows. I posted a question in a Q&A forum a while back asking HR and recruiters do they review everything about an individual on linked in and do they follow them if they are interested in them.
The response was scattered. Some stated no, some stated to some degree but do not follow since they simply did not have the time. Others stated if it is someone we are interested in we will follow them, read their profile from top to bottom, learn about them, follow their Q&A activity and watch them in their discussions. Why you might ask? Well for the most part, you are relaxed in a general setting with people of like personalities and/or like situations and cannot wait to voice your opinion. You rebut to comments made, offer suggestions, comment in general, and make jokes and other things.
There are many people sitting outside discussions shadowing and just watching never offering to say anything. These HR or recruiters get a first hand idea of the type of person you are with your communications and how you handle certain dilemmas, case studies, contributions, etc. They view if you are argumentative, caring, your style of dealing with people, if you are easily frustrated, etc. You can actually tell someone's personality simply by the way him or her write.
I literally had a firm contact me a while back and strictly indicated they read my entire profile and even read my blog and liked what they saw and contacted me. I might not have got the job, but people are watching.
I have had this discussion numerous times with my children. At their age and as internet shrewdness as one would think they are you would think they would know better. Well, they say they do know. But each time I read something on one of their sites there is always curse words, cannot wait till the weekend for partying, it’s Friday, fixing to pop a top, having dinner and drinks, downing a few brews on the lake, etc. etc. You get the idea. I cannot make them understand.
The reasoning is it is their personal site, they only let someone they know on it. As anyone with internet savvy experience and by no means am I the expert, but if it can be captured it will. If you have 200 friends, and their friends each have 200 friends do you know who their friends are especially if you have given those friends you have authority to review your profiles and photos? In a tech savvy world that we live in do people not believe companies cannot find nor have ways to get around this. Are you so cautious that you will not slip up with one contact one day who happens to be friends with the boss or someone who wants your position at work? Trust is not something to be taken lightly in the world of greed, and identity theft. There is another saying, “Keep your friends close, your enemies closer!” You might be friends with someone on your social or business site but statistics proves that the average person has a true association with about 10 people in their social settings. Can you actually keep track of 200 so called friends? Do you know each step they make? Do you read every post each one of them makes? It is quite impossible. Then parents are not well informed enough to get this through their kids minds.
In closing, I always, always watch what I write, never imposing anything on anyone, just my thoughts, never taking sides, never being negative, a know it all, or disclosing anything that I wouldn't want grandma to hear. I give truth to my opinions, back it up with many facts when in Q&A forums, straight forward, but kind. I never side with anyone since it is typically an opinion and it simply my opinion and we all have one.
I ensure everything I post is spell checked and worded correctly to the best of my ability. No, I am not an English major but I try hard to ensure it is proper. Many people will not go to all these lengths, but as it has been indicated everything you say is stuck in cyber land despite saying I will delete it; it is out there. Negatives and discontented comments should immediately be struck off by deleting. There is no need to fuel fires if at all you can help it.
One day in all of our distant futures when something we want badly enough comes knocking someone will pull out something that we said or stated and the anarchy begins. It is not like the ole days, it is way too easy to dispel someone over a simple comment.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
A Chilly Nightmare Comes to an End!
You know I respect people and admire the drive we as humans have when we can come together and achieve what seems to be the impossible. All over the news for the past several days was the Chilean’s working for the good of their people. How could you not have a heart and feel what these people were going through. Surely, these men held underground by Mother Nature’s force by not giving way to their escape caused quite a stir amongst the locals as well as people around the world. In addition, what determination these men have in continuing to survive instead of giving in to what most would have thought their fate has come to and end.
I am simply amazed what people can accomplish when they set their mind to it. One question I laugh at sort of is what experience did these men have as pulling people to survival? Looking at the economy around us and around the globe one has to wonder did they have to be a good fit to obtain the status of pulling their comrades to safety? Were they highly degreed professionals that sat there with shovels and pick-axes to free their loved ones?
Why do we live in such global desperation at putting people back to work? When you see people of other cultures who have so much less than we have achieve the unthinkable, is there not a lesson to be learned? I ponder many thoughts where humanity is driving and in what real direction are they seeking. Even as businessmen look toward profits, they surely can see that if we all pull together they can reap their riches, grow their companies and yet be kind and compassionate enough to do their part in such a global economic meltdown and turn it into something more delightful and at the end of the day everyone can safely end their day being with their love ones in a solemn grace.
Maybe I do live in a dream world hoping and praying for one day when all men will come together for a betterment of humanity and be more helping than wanting. Another thought I can only pray for.
I am simply amazed what people can accomplish when they set their mind to it. One question I laugh at sort of is what experience did these men have as pulling people to survival? Looking at the economy around us and around the globe one has to wonder did they have to be a good fit to obtain the status of pulling their comrades to safety? Were they highly degreed professionals that sat there with shovels and pick-axes to free their loved ones?
Why do we live in such global desperation at putting people back to work? When you see people of other cultures who have so much less than we have achieve the unthinkable, is there not a lesson to be learned? I ponder many thoughts where humanity is driving and in what real direction are they seeking. Even as businessmen look toward profits, they surely can see that if we all pull together they can reap their riches, grow their companies and yet be kind and compassionate enough to do their part in such a global economic meltdown and turn it into something more delightful and at the end of the day everyone can safely end their day being with their love ones in a solemn grace.
Maybe I do live in a dream world hoping and praying for one day when all men will come together for a betterment of humanity and be more helping than wanting. Another thought I can only pray for.
Nostalgia- Continued
I recently wrote on an earlier blog "Nostalgia, A Thing Of The Past Or A Useful Tool For The Future?"
I cannot help but think back of the way things were. I know; I know several have stated that the past is the past. Nevertheless, have you ever given it any thought? Where would you be if not for the past? Would you be right here typing on this thread if you had not had something that lead to this technology in your life back in the day? Maybe it was just a typing class. However, it was something. So I will not sit around and even think the past was just that the past.
If it had not been for President Kennedy back in his day, would we have ever evolved to the space age, as we know it? Sure, we would have made it there, but when, and would it be as we know it today and would we have been number one? Look at what we are going through today. One can hope based on opinions, facts, and theory that the next movement toward jobs of the future will be lessons learned and better achievements should this ever happen again, and let us face it, we will, maybe not myself but someone will go through this ordeal again, and again. Let us hope we all are learning, young and old, something about hiring people, communications, becoming more personable and expectations from recruiters to jobseekers.
If we don't learn, life as we know it may have been hard before, but the future will not only be hard, but it will be lonely because if we continue to apply the way things are being done today the only hope we have is sitting on our porch in our rocking chair moving back and forth and the only thing left to think about will be the good ole days!
I cannot help but think back of the way things were. I know; I know several have stated that the past is the past. Nevertheless, have you ever given it any thought? Where would you be if not for the past? Would you be right here typing on this thread if you had not had something that lead to this technology in your life back in the day? Maybe it was just a typing class. However, it was something. So I will not sit around and even think the past was just that the past.
If it had not been for President Kennedy back in his day, would we have ever evolved to the space age, as we know it? Sure, we would have made it there, but when, and would it be as we know it today and would we have been number one? Look at what we are going through today. One can hope based on opinions, facts, and theory that the next movement toward jobs of the future will be lessons learned and better achievements should this ever happen again, and let us face it, we will, maybe not myself but someone will go through this ordeal again, and again. Let us hope we all are learning, young and old, something about hiring people, communications, becoming more personable and expectations from recruiters to jobseekers.
If we don't learn, life as we know it may have been hard before, but the future will not only be hard, but it will be lonely because if we continue to apply the way things are being done today the only hope we have is sitting on our porch in our rocking chair moving back and forth and the only thing left to think about will be the good ole days!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
The Oil and Gas Deep Water Drilling Debate
Today the New York Post had a breaking news event whereas tomorrow October 12th they will be announcing a lift on the moratorium that Washington put in place from the oil spill that took place in the GOM back April of this year 2010. During a discussion, I came across numerous people that spoke out against deep water drilling. Now I for one am not a drilling expert nor am I an engineer and I will not claim to know anything or everything about oil well drilling and the effect it has on our environment, however I did give my thoughts in relations to how and what I believe since the O&G industry has been around in my life since I can remember. After working on oilrigs and for service companies for over 17 years I may not be an expert, but I feel I definitely have some knowledge on how things operate. I responded with not a favorable response against many that were on the opposite side of the fence.
I will not ever change my thoughts about drilling. I grew up with it all around me. I know the pros and cons behind it. Not always good, but my argument will always be for those who dislikes it but those same ones are not doing anything different when they drive up to the pump and fill their vehicles. I have grown up around alternative fuels also. Sugar Cane, Corn Mills, it's no different when it comes to mess and cleanups, just on land and requires refineries and it takes chemicals to break it down. Again, an added argument is we can continue buying foreign oil. US brings in over 10 million barrels of oil from Saudi Aramco "daily" and that is a lot of oil. It is used in mostly everything we use today from plastics to over the counter meds things that have petroleum distillates processed in it.
One thing I didn’t bring up in the conversation is how has the O&G helped our lives? Just as those that are proponents against the space program. What have we learned from this program that has bettered our lives? In a previous post I talked about nostalgia, something that is merely the past of something that could help our future. Well as I see it the space program we learned a lot about technology. Things we use everyday. The same goes for oil. Many things are derived from oil and it has made our lives more prosperous today.
Therefore, for me to argue that the O&G industry is not a worthy business would be foolish and is no different from coal miners arguing their positions and shrimpers on boats arguing their positions. I totally support the O&G industry and "totally" agree with tighter safety rules that "MUST" be followed. Nevertheless, we need to keep more work here instead of purchasing from abroad when it comes to fuels. We have the ability, the knowledge and the know how to meet our own needs without other's benefiting from our dollars that definitely hurts our well-being and adds to our economic breakdown. We have been doing it for the last century and there will always be accidents. That is no different than a bridge giving away in Los Angeles or a volcano blowing acid into the atmosphere, there will always be disasters, but just as humanly possible we need to be more aware using more precautionary measures.
People in Florida complain about the state of their economy. I lived on the panhandle for 10 years, all the talk was about the pristine beaches in one breath, and the next breath was we do not have employment and if it would not be for the tourism industry we would be broke. Do not even talk oil relations to anyone in Florida. Governor Charlie Christ was talking about bringing drilling to Florida at one time prior to the oil spill. Surely this would have not happened over night, but I am sure when the word got out the drilling companies were standing in line to obtain their permits and ready to bid on blocks out in the GOM off of Florida. Then the oil spill occurred, as I am sure those thoughts of drilling were shelved and the discussion came to a sudden halt. However, you cannot have it both ways. You cannot complain how much you want to keep everything pristine, you do not want O&G messing up your coastlines, but are the first in line for gas and complain when you don’t have it and yet complain because unemployment in Florida is at one of the highest rates in the US. That is why Florida is broke. Retirees and snowbirds are not coming to Florida any longer to spend their dollars for retirement and vacations because of the hurricanes and not being able to insure their lovely mansions along the Gulf Coast since insurance companies came about indicating they would no longer insure anyone on the beaches. This meant you would have to be self-insured or move out and retire somewhere else. Guess what, the people with money that were coming to Florida decided if I need to live near water, I will just buy something near a lake. Therefore, tourism is now suffering. You need to boost economies and it is not going to happen by selling beer at the beach.
Everything around us has an effect that someone does not like. They cut down millions of acres of the rain forest every year and what does that effect? Does anyone complain how it is affecting people, natives, and animal habitats? Maybe some people are screaming out, but as usual, no one worries about it unless it has a direct impact on the way they are living. It might not affect everyone directly but there is an indirect effect we just may not see it. The drilling may not be seen as good in many people’s eyes, but if people really think about things all around them somewhere, some job is indirectly having an adverse effect on something. I am not a scientist so I cannot debate many avenues but in my opinion, the earth gave us the chemicals and such to work with. We did not order them from planet ZYGON and have it delivered to the ports for us to assume we know what to do and how we are going to handle it. It is not like something we just suddenly got our hands on like Kryptonite. We know the chemicals we have are made right here on planet Earth. They are taken from good ole mother earth herself and made into things we as humans use for our everyday living. It is our responsibility to become more perceptive and aware and learn better ways and methods at how to manage what has been given to us as stewards. Mother Nature has in her own way, knows how to take care of herself. It might take 40 years for her to clean up an accident but she will clean herself up. Now do not take that the wrong way. I am not saying we need to make messes or create disasters expecting our planet to take care of our carelessness. What I am saying is along with our technology and knowledge we can contribute to helping her along in bettering our planet. We just need to accept things will happen, some beyond our control but for those that are in our control become better aware before things happen and be prepared when things do happen.
Lastly, despite what people think about oil drilling many people seem to think catastrophes like the GOM oil spill is something that is horrendously controllable. Well, let me rephrase that. The oil spill is something that will not happen unless caused by man himself. If anyone has any knowledge about O&G then you will know that scientist have proven repeatedly that oil seeps from the bedrock floors all around the world in all our oceans all the time. (Jul 18, 2010 ... oil seeps from the floor of the oceans all around the world everyday 24/7. maybe Obama should put a 6 month moratorium on the floor of the ...
www.nola.com/news/...oil.../oil_seeping_from_gulf_floor_ne.html )
It is really physics, as I know it. You have pressurized compounds below the crust of the earth. The earth is constantly changing. Fault lines are shifting. Life as we would never know it occurs, but life as we wouldn’t expect it happens beneath us everyday just in a different fashion. When pressures reach their capacities and there is nowhere for them to go what usually happens? Like a water hose and water with a tiny hole in it. It will find the weakest point and elevate itself to the point of escape and boom you have seepage. If the pressures are large enough and occur long enough the opening increases and this pressurized liquid will surface. Sure, it might not be what we seen as an oil spill, but it is happening everyday around us. Do you think when a volcano erupts someone just walks over and says “oops the pressure is building we need to vent it by turning on the valve until enough has escaped then we can turn it off? Earth is a living creature just as you and I are. It suffers pains and has to release its frustrations also to rid the pains. It is a growing organism. Maybe not in size but in area that it already encompasses. So believe the O&G might not make things better, but there are many things amongst us that can actually fall into that category. It is simply how like anything, we manage it.
We can change things and go to electric cars or anything else for that fact, but somewhere down the road in our kid’s lifetime and their kids lifetime; there will be something found that is not good about that. A show played last week about the affects batteries had during a crash impact. Was not to promising. Therefore, it does not matter what we agree on or not agree on, something somewhere will eventually have an impact on humanity.
I will not ever change my thoughts about drilling. I grew up with it all around me. I know the pros and cons behind it. Not always good, but my argument will always be for those who dislikes it but those same ones are not doing anything different when they drive up to the pump and fill their vehicles. I have grown up around alternative fuels also. Sugar Cane, Corn Mills, it's no different when it comes to mess and cleanups, just on land and requires refineries and it takes chemicals to break it down. Again, an added argument is we can continue buying foreign oil. US brings in over 10 million barrels of oil from Saudi Aramco "daily" and that is a lot of oil. It is used in mostly everything we use today from plastics to over the counter meds things that have petroleum distillates processed in it.
One thing I didn’t bring up in the conversation is how has the O&G helped our lives? Just as those that are proponents against the space program. What have we learned from this program that has bettered our lives? In a previous post I talked about nostalgia, something that is merely the past of something that could help our future. Well as I see it the space program we learned a lot about technology. Things we use everyday. The same goes for oil. Many things are derived from oil and it has made our lives more prosperous today.
Therefore, for me to argue that the O&G industry is not a worthy business would be foolish and is no different from coal miners arguing their positions and shrimpers on boats arguing their positions. I totally support the O&G industry and "totally" agree with tighter safety rules that "MUST" be followed. Nevertheless, we need to keep more work here instead of purchasing from abroad when it comes to fuels. We have the ability, the knowledge and the know how to meet our own needs without other's benefiting from our dollars that definitely hurts our well-being and adds to our economic breakdown. We have been doing it for the last century and there will always be accidents. That is no different than a bridge giving away in Los Angeles or a volcano blowing acid into the atmosphere, there will always be disasters, but just as humanly possible we need to be more aware using more precautionary measures.
People in Florida complain about the state of their economy. I lived on the panhandle for 10 years, all the talk was about the pristine beaches in one breath, and the next breath was we do not have employment and if it would not be for the tourism industry we would be broke. Do not even talk oil relations to anyone in Florida. Governor Charlie Christ was talking about bringing drilling to Florida at one time prior to the oil spill. Surely this would have not happened over night, but I am sure when the word got out the drilling companies were standing in line to obtain their permits and ready to bid on blocks out in the GOM off of Florida. Then the oil spill occurred, as I am sure those thoughts of drilling were shelved and the discussion came to a sudden halt. However, you cannot have it both ways. You cannot complain how much you want to keep everything pristine, you do not want O&G messing up your coastlines, but are the first in line for gas and complain when you don’t have it and yet complain because unemployment in Florida is at one of the highest rates in the US. That is why Florida is broke. Retirees and snowbirds are not coming to Florida any longer to spend their dollars for retirement and vacations because of the hurricanes and not being able to insure their lovely mansions along the Gulf Coast since insurance companies came about indicating they would no longer insure anyone on the beaches. This meant you would have to be self-insured or move out and retire somewhere else. Guess what, the people with money that were coming to Florida decided if I need to live near water, I will just buy something near a lake. Therefore, tourism is now suffering. You need to boost economies and it is not going to happen by selling beer at the beach.
Everything around us has an effect that someone does not like. They cut down millions of acres of the rain forest every year and what does that effect? Does anyone complain how it is affecting people, natives, and animal habitats? Maybe some people are screaming out, but as usual, no one worries about it unless it has a direct impact on the way they are living. It might not affect everyone directly but there is an indirect effect we just may not see it. The drilling may not be seen as good in many people’s eyes, but if people really think about things all around them somewhere, some job is indirectly having an adverse effect on something. I am not a scientist so I cannot debate many avenues but in my opinion, the earth gave us the chemicals and such to work with. We did not order them from planet ZYGON and have it delivered to the ports for us to assume we know what to do and how we are going to handle it. It is not like something we just suddenly got our hands on like Kryptonite. We know the chemicals we have are made right here on planet Earth. They are taken from good ole mother earth herself and made into things we as humans use for our everyday living. It is our responsibility to become more perceptive and aware and learn better ways and methods at how to manage what has been given to us as stewards. Mother Nature has in her own way, knows how to take care of herself. It might take 40 years for her to clean up an accident but she will clean herself up. Now do not take that the wrong way. I am not saying we need to make messes or create disasters expecting our planet to take care of our carelessness. What I am saying is along with our technology and knowledge we can contribute to helping her along in bettering our planet. We just need to accept things will happen, some beyond our control but for those that are in our control become better aware before things happen and be prepared when things do happen.
Lastly, despite what people think about oil drilling many people seem to think catastrophes like the GOM oil spill is something that is horrendously controllable. Well, let me rephrase that. The oil spill is something that will not happen unless caused by man himself. If anyone has any knowledge about O&G then you will know that scientist have proven repeatedly that oil seeps from the bedrock floors all around the world in all our oceans all the time. (Jul 18, 2010 ... oil seeps from the floor of the oceans all around the world everyday 24/7. maybe Obama should put a 6 month moratorium on the floor of the ...
www.nola.com/news/...oil.../oil_seeping_from_gulf_floor_ne.html )
It is really physics, as I know it. You have pressurized compounds below the crust of the earth. The earth is constantly changing. Fault lines are shifting. Life as we would never know it occurs, but life as we wouldn’t expect it happens beneath us everyday just in a different fashion. When pressures reach their capacities and there is nowhere for them to go what usually happens? Like a water hose and water with a tiny hole in it. It will find the weakest point and elevate itself to the point of escape and boom you have seepage. If the pressures are large enough and occur long enough the opening increases and this pressurized liquid will surface. Sure, it might not be what we seen as an oil spill, but it is happening everyday around us. Do you think when a volcano erupts someone just walks over and says “oops the pressure is building we need to vent it by turning on the valve until enough has escaped then we can turn it off? Earth is a living creature just as you and I are. It suffers pains and has to release its frustrations also to rid the pains. It is a growing organism. Maybe not in size but in area that it already encompasses. So believe the O&G might not make things better, but there are many things amongst us that can actually fall into that category. It is simply how like anything, we manage it.
We can change things and go to electric cars or anything else for that fact, but somewhere down the road in our kid’s lifetime and their kids lifetime; there will be something found that is not good about that. A show played last week about the affects batteries had during a crash impact. Was not to promising. Therefore, it does not matter what we agree on or not agree on, something somewhere will eventually have an impact on humanity.
Monday, October 11, 2010
The Blame Game
Last night I got into a discussion and as Peter Griffin from Family Guy stated in a job he took for a news station... "What Really Grinds My Gears" was the fact that someone was talking about the state the economy is in and who is to blame for it. Of course there are plenty people still out there pointing fingers. Following is what I replied as I'm objective enough to know it is not a matter of whose fault it is but whose going to take action to get us back on track.
I think personally that we really need to be passed these pointing fingers of who inherited what from whom and how they got it. If you read history, this sort of reaction to the economy was coming for the last 40 years. It has been clearly stated by every president in a state of the union message. We need to do something, or future generations will suffer. What will we do? They always brought it up, always said where we need to focus but never had any answers and each has simply passed it down.
Despite who is at fault and who dropped the ball and who should keep running, we need to be more focused on what government as a whole will do to cure the issues at hand. Voting to me is an awesome responsibility but if it is merely just a knee jerk reaction to get the public to listen to the promises and the typical election is won by someone who says their interest is that of the populist and the result being voted electoral college which is really a joke in my book since you have no clue who’s voting for the people or for their own pocket book and no one is going to listen, then the general population needs to react differently.
The main issue is not who’s fault it is but reducing the amount government gets toward spending and the lobbyist who continue to fund their own causes leaving we the people groveling in lines trying to show we’re not spoiled, wasted, or the bad omen of unemployment. The focus from main stream politicians should not worry about the Ob-care right now, or other controversial programs that support bogus pork, but it should be full focus on building a better public confidence so companies will have the want to train and put people back to work. Being unemployed is not only hurting the jobless population, it is also hurting business in general and the government. No taxes in, no taxes out. No money made, no product purchased.
Until mainstream realizes that they may be capable of their own expenditures, they are really forcing the typical business to have to support the unemployed also. One way or another someone is paying something for someone who is unemployed.
We need to really get passed the blame game and focus on how to make touchdowns!
I think personally that we really need to be passed these pointing fingers of who inherited what from whom and how they got it. If you read history, this sort of reaction to the economy was coming for the last 40 years. It has been clearly stated by every president in a state of the union message. We need to do something, or future generations will suffer. What will we do? They always brought it up, always said where we need to focus but never had any answers and each has simply passed it down.
Despite who is at fault and who dropped the ball and who should keep running, we need to be more focused on what government as a whole will do to cure the issues at hand. Voting to me is an awesome responsibility but if it is merely just a knee jerk reaction to get the public to listen to the promises and the typical election is won by someone who says their interest is that of the populist and the result being voted electoral college which is really a joke in my book since you have no clue who’s voting for the people or for their own pocket book and no one is going to listen, then the general population needs to react differently.
The main issue is not who’s fault it is but reducing the amount government gets toward spending and the lobbyist who continue to fund their own causes leaving we the people groveling in lines trying to show we’re not spoiled, wasted, or the bad omen of unemployment. The focus from main stream politicians should not worry about the Ob-care right now, or other controversial programs that support bogus pork, but it should be full focus on building a better public confidence so companies will have the want to train and put people back to work. Being unemployed is not only hurting the jobless population, it is also hurting business in general and the government. No taxes in, no taxes out. No money made, no product purchased.
Until mainstream realizes that they may be capable of their own expenditures, they are really forcing the typical business to have to support the unemployed also. One way or another someone is paying something for someone who is unemployed.
We need to really get passed the blame game and focus on how to make touchdowns!
Self-Distruction
I understand a lot about technology. I might not be IT savvy, but I do have a considerable amount of knowledge toward what we deal with today, but what I do not get is how upcoming do not seem to get it. We all watch sci-fi. Let us face it we have seen it happen over our lifetime, just was not as bad. We had space movies, and reality taught us to get to the moon. We had Hal the robot who controlled 2001 A Space Odyssey, so we all assumed one day we'll have a space station and we created Skylab. However, why don‘t we ever get it?
We sit around now and complain about jobs. Does anyone not see where we are headed? Maybe not in my life time but at least in my kid’s lifetime, there will be some sort of robotics that eliminates the welfare of an honest days work. We did see i-ROBOT right? Then I forget the name of the movie, but Green something I believe.... but it is where government simply gathered people up and imprisoned them for being around the age of 60 or so. Then they annihilated them and used them for fertilizer. Ok far fetch maybe, but think about it, if Hollywood can think it up and dream it up and we've seen what their sci-fi buddies have created that turned into reality, anything is possible.
My point is doesn't anyone see that the more we progress and I'm not against progression at all but when it affects mankind do we not see now things we're doing daily can progress to the point where we are hurting ourselves. Greed in Corporations will become outdated. Money will become obsolete. So you are getting rich now but one day when you have all this money and a one-world government decides for you that it is worthless and now you will answer to them then what will greed have accomplished?
Those list from the good ole days are true and shed light, but what is next... You kids have it so easy, I remember when we had to take the space shuttle to work just to earn enough to stay alive, and today you kids just beam yourself around the globe and create virtual mistresses to come in an baby-sit y'all. Y'all have it way to easy.
Fiction yes, but to me, it is the future and we just do not realize we are our own worst enemy, and we will eventually self-destruct!
We sit around now and complain about jobs. Does anyone not see where we are headed? Maybe not in my life time but at least in my kid’s lifetime, there will be some sort of robotics that eliminates the welfare of an honest days work. We did see i-ROBOT right? Then I forget the name of the movie, but Green something I believe.... but it is where government simply gathered people up and imprisoned them for being around the age of 60 or so. Then they annihilated them and used them for fertilizer. Ok far fetch maybe, but think about it, if Hollywood can think it up and dream it up and we've seen what their sci-fi buddies have created that turned into reality, anything is possible.
My point is doesn't anyone see that the more we progress and I'm not against progression at all but when it affects mankind do we not see now things we're doing daily can progress to the point where we are hurting ourselves. Greed in Corporations will become outdated. Money will become obsolete. So you are getting rich now but one day when you have all this money and a one-world government decides for you that it is worthless and now you will answer to them then what will greed have accomplished?
Those list from the good ole days are true and shed light, but what is next... You kids have it so easy, I remember when we had to take the space shuttle to work just to earn enough to stay alive, and today you kids just beam yourself around the globe and create virtual mistresses to come in an baby-sit y'all. Y'all have it way to easy.
Fiction yes, but to me, it is the future and we just do not realize we are our own worst enemy, and we will eventually self-destruct!
Nostalgia, A Thing Of The Past Or A Useful Tool For The Future
I recently had a discussion with a group on nostalgia. I heard a lot of comments on why looking back is no way to pursue the future. What happened in the past is just that the past.
I had to stop and give some thought to those comments. Is that true is it merely the past and there's nothing to gain from it? Looking at it from the good ole days and applying it to our current economic conditions. How true cocould this possibly be? If nostalgia is nothing more than the past and it cannot help us in the future why do we teach history in classrooms?Don't we learn anything from history especially on helping us establish the future?
After careful consideration here is what I've come up with. Nostalgia is what keeps us grounded. The ones who are paying it forward are those that know what paying it forward means. X&Y genres do not see it so easily and do not recognize it so kindly. They expect. The belief of nostalgia will not will get the next genres nowhere, why, because they fail to want to learn it. As the kids say today, the old people are talking about the ole days. Very few acknowledge how much those ole days contributed to what they have and are able to progress into doing today. Without those nostalgia thoughts, there really would not be no today to pay forward!
The more the conversation went on the response was nostalgia is nothing more than the older people trying to be self righteous and looking for someone to give back to them. The point being made about the genres X&Y were that they know all about paying forward they don't need nostalgia because they may be geeks but they help out around the community.
I do not find nostalgia self-righteousness thinking of simpler times and maybe I should restate; many of the X&Y genres do not see it so clearly. My kids volunteer also for civic things. But it does come to a point where self-righteous is what we see nowadays with many who do not recognize the generations before them as being the ground work that has enabled them to be where they are and where they are heading.
I have always appreciated the stories my folks have told us from the days gone by. I realized from an early age if not for what they went through, there is no way I would be doing or was able to accomplish what I have accomplished.
Even though my kids volunteer for civic activities and help out, ask them how they got to where they are? Simply stated they will say, Dad, those were old days you grew up in, today things have changed we do not have to worry about that, we have electronics. Is that not self-righteous? My daughter’s boyfriend one evening after inviting him over to have dinner with us sat on the porch with me and we were talking about jobs and the like. I brought up how I remember when obtaining a job was not so hard. I remember how a bunch of friends would even go on a weekend and unload boxcars of oilfield mud, and fertilizers that were in 100 lb sacks and leave at the end of the day with 10 bucks and how to make extra dollars we would go out in the potato fields and help them dig potatoes for $15 a day.
There is nothing self-righteous about that. That was the truth. His response was, Mr. Dennis, I can honestly say I know nothing about what true work is, and he raised his hands and they were softer than a baby's tush... and replied.. all I know is how to operate computers!
I am glad we were able to give our kids more, in fact, that was the idea, but it was not the idea to say hey, let us just disconnect with those that made it happen!
Self righteous is all around us, look at the interviews you go on today when you meet someone who is younger than you, they don’t want to hire you because they don’t want to be telling their mothers and dads what to do, but they have that entitlement belief, I deserve this, a good example was someone I know who went to an interview and the interviewer was in his twenties. He totally insulted this person, the interviewee. Once the owner which was the father found out he called the individual in with the son who was the interviewer and got to the bottom of this situation. The son came clean thinking he was the big shot of the operations. Undoubtably the son was discharged from his position and the interviewee, was left with some dignity.That was arrogance and self-righteous, you owe me I do not owe you!
I did have to agree that there are people out there from the ole days who
seem to view things through rose-colored glasses. As I responded I stated
I agreed that people cannot view things through the rose-colored glasses as stated. As I stated, nostalgia is great for keeping you grounded, but if you're hiding behind something and can't accept the fact that you have to embrace what is at hand today in front of you, you're simply fooling yourself, no matter what genre you come from. I do not see nostalgia as a bad thing if (like anything else) used in its appropriate manner. I use it as an appreciation for where I am and where I am headed. Like I stated, I'm quite familiar with nowadays technology and I can embrace it, it has made things in my life easier.
Nevertheless, I will state do I wish for simpler times, most definitely, will I see it in my lifetime... I seriously doubt it, but I can pray!
I had to stop and give some thought to those comments. Is that true is it merely the past and there's nothing to gain from it? Looking at it from the good ole days and applying it to our current economic conditions. How true cocould this possibly be? If nostalgia is nothing more than the past and it cannot help us in the future why do we teach history in classrooms?Don't we learn anything from history especially on helping us establish the future?
After careful consideration here is what I've come up with. Nostalgia is what keeps us grounded. The ones who are paying it forward are those that know what paying it forward means. X&Y genres do not see it so easily and do not recognize it so kindly. They expect. The belief of nostalgia will not will get the next genres nowhere, why, because they fail to want to learn it. As the kids say today, the old people are talking about the ole days. Very few acknowledge how much those ole days contributed to what they have and are able to progress into doing today. Without those nostalgia thoughts, there really would not be no today to pay forward!
The more the conversation went on the response was nostalgia is nothing more than the older people trying to be self righteous and looking for someone to give back to them. The point being made about the genres X&Y were that they know all about paying forward they don't need nostalgia because they may be geeks but they help out around the community.
I do not find nostalgia self-righteousness thinking of simpler times and maybe I should restate; many of the X&Y genres do not see it so clearly. My kids volunteer also for civic things. But it does come to a point where self-righteous is what we see nowadays with many who do not recognize the generations before them as being the ground work that has enabled them to be where they are and where they are heading.
I have always appreciated the stories my folks have told us from the days gone by. I realized from an early age if not for what they went through, there is no way I would be doing or was able to accomplish what I have accomplished.
Even though my kids volunteer for civic activities and help out, ask them how they got to where they are? Simply stated they will say, Dad, those were old days you grew up in, today things have changed we do not have to worry about that, we have electronics. Is that not self-righteous? My daughter’s boyfriend one evening after inviting him over to have dinner with us sat on the porch with me and we were talking about jobs and the like. I brought up how I remember when obtaining a job was not so hard. I remember how a bunch of friends would even go on a weekend and unload boxcars of oilfield mud, and fertilizers that were in 100 lb sacks and leave at the end of the day with 10 bucks and how to make extra dollars we would go out in the potato fields and help them dig potatoes for $15 a day.
There is nothing self-righteous about that. That was the truth. His response was, Mr. Dennis, I can honestly say I know nothing about what true work is, and he raised his hands and they were softer than a baby's tush... and replied.. all I know is how to operate computers!
I am glad we were able to give our kids more, in fact, that was the idea, but it was not the idea to say hey, let us just disconnect with those that made it happen!
Self righteous is all around us, look at the interviews you go on today when you meet someone who is younger than you, they don’t want to hire you because they don’t want to be telling their mothers and dads what to do, but they have that entitlement belief, I deserve this, a good example was someone I know who went to an interview and the interviewer was in his twenties. He totally insulted this person, the interviewee. Once the owner which was the father found out he called the individual in with the son who was the interviewer and got to the bottom of this situation. The son came clean thinking he was the big shot of the operations. Undoubtably the son was discharged from his position and the interviewee, was left with some dignity.That was arrogance and self-righteous, you owe me I do not owe you!
I did have to agree that there are people out there from the ole days who
seem to view things through rose-colored glasses. As I responded I stated
I agreed that people cannot view things through the rose-colored glasses as stated. As I stated, nostalgia is great for keeping you grounded, but if you're hiding behind something and can't accept the fact that you have to embrace what is at hand today in front of you, you're simply fooling yourself, no matter what genre you come from. I do not see nostalgia as a bad thing if (like anything else) used in its appropriate manner. I use it as an appreciation for where I am and where I am headed. Like I stated, I'm quite familiar with nowadays technology and I can embrace it, it has made things in my life easier.
Nevertheless, I will state do I wish for simpler times, most definitely, will I see it in my lifetime... I seriously doubt it, but I can pray!
Friday, October 8, 2010
Hiring and Time Consuming Decisions
Personally, I think HR and Recruiters need to allocate time for each client or their company and ensure they know what the company does, what they sell, and the synopsis of the product being sold. Note: I have not said they need to know how the job needs to be accomplished. That in their realm of expertise is not required, but as a hiring authority or part of the hiring mix, they should have some knowledge of what they deal with in order to present appropriately, what they have been tasked to do. Recruiters need to step back and make allocated time to the situation. I realize there is 8 hours in a day and many probably work more than that, but if you think about it recruiting is simply a sales job. I am not saying it is an easy one. Nevertheless, put yourself in a situation if you were in sales and you were trying to pick up a new customer. What would you tell the prospective client? Would you want to know a little about the products that are being sold? Would you want to know some statistics on the company you are working with?
How do you successfully manage this challenge? Change the system. Know what you are looking for and learn the specifics. That seems to be one of the biggest downfalls you hear about in an application process, seekers will send in a resume even though they are not qualified. Hmm, well maybe the way you approached it simply states to the seeker "maybe I am qualified." HR has job descriptions on all positions already available. If it something additional maybe HR should get with the hiring authority and sit down in a brain storming session with everyone who is involved and say ok I need to know more about this position you want to hire for, what are the specifics. What will I be looking for? What will you take, what will be the deal breakers?
Simply stated, we are all busy and in today's economic climate and more than ever everybody has a plate full and overflowing. We all have deadlines, we all have expectations, but we have all been taught time management, organization, best practices, change management at least to some degree. It is around us in our everyday living. If you're going to only take something in and not do some sort of research and have a product that will attract a certain type, and sell a product to the prospect who's searching without any knowledge, then there's no proper way to manage.
Like any other position, you have to be on your game. Know what is expected. Just some time to step back and analyze the situation will do more good than harm.
This goes for hiring authorities also. Despite being bogged down with work, we all have been there. We have all stayed hours upon hours to manage and get our work accomplished, but when you have a new addition to your plate, you do not just push it off and hope for the best.
Since companies are being more prudent at hiring, how can they not take this as a serious portion to the added serving on the plate? It has become an important factor, so just as important as it is to get out a specific job, so should the position you are hiring to fill. Again, learning and achieving good time management skills, puts even the more mediocre task in place for achievement. Surely, many has taken the class on putting things in order. A, B, C?
Most Important-Needs to be done now, Will get done, and Not so important can be tossed or file?
Also, get together with hire ups make suggestions; agree to have decisions made on particular positions in a given time. How can a company expect to hire the 100% match or even the 90% match if they cannot even perform the job of what they are seeking appropriately?
Hiring for position carries the same reflection on you as it does an engineer that's expected to get a project completed in X amount of time. It all has its place.
Being in the hiring manager's role, many times we've all felt, "Oh I really don't want to talk to anyone today, or I really don't want to review resumes, or this is to much time to spend on such a trivial task, HR can sum it up."Is that how you approach a job on a project that could be fatal to your customer if you didn't allocate time to study and understand it?
As for as entertaining potential prospects for the just in case factor. If you are spending that much time on just in cases, should you not be spending that much time on the actual position? Learning what is needed. I don’t think finding prospects and adding them to your portfolio to be ready just in case is very lucrative if the prospect doesn’t understand your purpose and to tell people that I have a potential position for you only to find out later that they were simply placed in a possibility bin is unacceptable unless the individual you’re prospecting knows up front what is going on. If you’re doing it and later found to be lieing you’re being deceptive and it would make me leery of a company that allows such practices to prevail whether it is HR or Recruiters. If you are lying about that what else, will you lie about? It follows the same analogy you expect from the selected candidate that you are ensuring is trustworthy and a good fit.
How do you successfully manage this challenge? Change the system. Know what you are looking for and learn the specifics. That seems to be one of the biggest downfalls you hear about in an application process, seekers will send in a resume even though they are not qualified. Hmm, well maybe the way you approached it simply states to the seeker "maybe I am qualified." HR has job descriptions on all positions already available. If it something additional maybe HR should get with the hiring authority and sit down in a brain storming session with everyone who is involved and say ok I need to know more about this position you want to hire for, what are the specifics. What will I be looking for? What will you take, what will be the deal breakers?
Simply stated, we are all busy and in today's economic climate and more than ever everybody has a plate full and overflowing. We all have deadlines, we all have expectations, but we have all been taught time management, organization, best practices, change management at least to some degree. It is around us in our everyday living. If you're going to only take something in and not do some sort of research and have a product that will attract a certain type, and sell a product to the prospect who's searching without any knowledge, then there's no proper way to manage.
Like any other position, you have to be on your game. Know what is expected. Just some time to step back and analyze the situation will do more good than harm.
This goes for hiring authorities also. Despite being bogged down with work, we all have been there. We have all stayed hours upon hours to manage and get our work accomplished, but when you have a new addition to your plate, you do not just push it off and hope for the best.
Since companies are being more prudent at hiring, how can they not take this as a serious portion to the added serving on the plate? It has become an important factor, so just as important as it is to get out a specific job, so should the position you are hiring to fill. Again, learning and achieving good time management skills, puts even the more mediocre task in place for achievement. Surely, many has taken the class on putting things in order. A, B, C?
Most Important-Needs to be done now, Will get done, and Not so important can be tossed or file?
Also, get together with hire ups make suggestions; agree to have decisions made on particular positions in a given time. How can a company expect to hire the 100% match or even the 90% match if they cannot even perform the job of what they are seeking appropriately?
Hiring for position carries the same reflection on you as it does an engineer that's expected to get a project completed in X amount of time. It all has its place.
Being in the hiring manager's role, many times we've all felt, "Oh I really don't want to talk to anyone today, or I really don't want to review resumes, or this is to much time to spend on such a trivial task, HR can sum it up."Is that how you approach a job on a project that could be fatal to your customer if you didn't allocate time to study and understand it?
As for as entertaining potential prospects for the just in case factor. If you are spending that much time on just in cases, should you not be spending that much time on the actual position? Learning what is needed. I don’t think finding prospects and adding them to your portfolio to be ready just in case is very lucrative if the prospect doesn’t understand your purpose and to tell people that I have a potential position for you only to find out later that they were simply placed in a possibility bin is unacceptable unless the individual you’re prospecting knows up front what is going on. If you’re doing it and later found to be lieing you’re being deceptive and it would make me leery of a company that allows such practices to prevail whether it is HR or Recruiters. If you are lying about that what else, will you lie about? It follows the same analogy you expect from the selected candidate that you are ensuring is trustworthy and a good fit.
Pratical Experience vs Theory - Why Outsource
Someone made a statement in a thread I was in that said "the problem with the best solutions, is that no matter how good we are when another culture can produce three engineers for less than one engineer from the US, the statistics and averages always support the higher number... It is nonsense for the US to believe anything else... Me(person making the statement) personally, I’ll always bet on the three heads... where they lack, is the field work... Little or No infrastructure within their own culture to practice turning theory in production;"
In a response, I followed with the following query, "If theory serves me correctly, practical experience leads to the creation of theories. An employer assumes that it is only practical experience that determines the quality of personal theories. However, understanding that practical experience is only part of the equation and together with personal theories is what is important in formulating formal theories. Without practical experience and personal theory, it would make the formulation of formal theories quite difficult to formulate.
My point is, how can 3 heads that has no form or lack of form (due to a lack of infrastructure within) to evaluate a circumstance that utilizes practical experience and personal theory that has proven to work to what has created formal theory (derived from practical experience + personal theory) be capable of turning formal theory in something they actually have no experience at physically doing? You can theorize all day long with 3 heads, would of, could of, should of theory, but without physically applying practical experience there would simply be no personal theory to lead to formal theory.
So by outsourcing based on simply believing “it works” scenario does not necessarily mean it is beneficial to the stability of a global economic windfall. Some of those beliefs are simply being followed by the adage of 3 heads are better than one, which one can honestly state is factual but only based on the theoretical viewpoint that practical experience and theory has created the strategy to succeed on this route, not merely basing it on personal theory only, which is what you’re are actually achieving with a partisan outcome derived at thought without physical experience.
I do not dispel statistical claims but trying to understand, book knowledge can run rapid but without practical experience, there would be no use for theory. So if another culture is simply applying theory where does it become more lucrative to outsource?"
In a response, I followed with the following query, "If theory serves me correctly, practical experience leads to the creation of theories. An employer assumes that it is only practical experience that determines the quality of personal theories. However, understanding that practical experience is only part of the equation and together with personal theories is what is important in formulating formal theories. Without practical experience and personal theory, it would make the formulation of formal theories quite difficult to formulate.
My point is, how can 3 heads that has no form or lack of form (due to a lack of infrastructure within) to evaluate a circumstance that utilizes practical experience and personal theory that has proven to work to what has created formal theory (derived from practical experience + personal theory) be capable of turning formal theory in something they actually have no experience at physically doing? You can theorize all day long with 3 heads, would of, could of, should of theory, but without physically applying practical experience there would simply be no personal theory to lead to formal theory.
So by outsourcing based on simply believing “it works” scenario does not necessarily mean it is beneficial to the stability of a global economic windfall. Some of those beliefs are simply being followed by the adage of 3 heads are better than one, which one can honestly state is factual but only based on the theoretical viewpoint that practical experience and theory has created the strategy to succeed on this route, not merely basing it on personal theory only, which is what you’re are actually achieving with a partisan outcome derived at thought without physical experience.
I do not dispel statistical claims but trying to understand, book knowledge can run rapid but without practical experience, there would be no use for theory. So if another culture is simply applying theory where does it become more lucrative to outsource?"
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
The Typical Hiring Process at Any Given Company
Why does it take so long to obtain a position within a company.Consideration must be given whether the company is on a fiscal year or calendar year. Is it Jan. to Dec. or is it July to July for instance. Budgets are driven by the accounting year. Any business is allowed to adopt the calendar year, but businesses that do not keep books or do not have an annual accounting period are required to use one. S corporations are required to use either the calendar year or a 52-53 week tax year ending on Dec. 31.
That being said, when the budget model is presented and the presenter is deluged with questions about what assumptions are used in the model. Examples of assumptions are tax rate percentages, sales growth rates, mature product lines, capacity levels, cost of goods sold margins, and medical expense rate per person. Approval authorities want to ensure all assumptions are reasonable before wasting too much time reviewing the information that is presented. (Accounting Best Practices by Steven M. Bragg)
So with all this being said this includes the hiring and jockeying of positions. Just because you have interviews does not mean they have been approved. They might be in the mist of being approved during the interview process and when the approving authorities feel there is something missing, the position dissolves, put on hold or relinquished. (Something many jobseekers don't understand such as why it takes so long, didn't they (the company) know they were filling a position, what goes into getting a position approved, was there internal candidates to consider also, Why did they interview externals if they were giving to an internal, the requirements of the EEOC that requires posting of all positions whether given to internal or external, must ensure someone is qualified internal as to interviewing external)
Many avenues have to be considered why positions and hiring slow, end, and/or dissolve. It is business. It is no different than buying a piece of machinery to complete a project to make it simple. If the funding is thought to be there, if mid managers can get it approved, they will do everything within their power to get what they need, personnel included. The simple fact that middle management creates requisitions for positions to be filled along with HR, does not necessary mean they will get filled. (Ref statement above. Interviewing may be taking place during the process of getting approval) Disappointing to many interviewees and jobseekers. Not to take sides with any group, being jobseeker or recruiter, but sometimes recruiters do not have the any idea of what happened. The promise of saying I’ll call you back is with good intentions, but for many if the company just pulls out without any communications to the recruiter then the recruiter is caught sitting on his thumb turning 360 degrees with no idea how to or what to tell a candidate. So as ugly and disrespectful as it seems, how do you call a candidate and tell them, Um I have no idea what happened when the candidate knows they had an awesome interview, they were told they would be called back only to be left with nothing. Simply stated, “That’s Business”
Budgets are not always being cut back in the realm of over spending, cutting back, running out of money. Many actually increase hiring so they will not lose a slotted position and because the end of the calendar or fiscal year is coming close to a close, they hurry to spend the remains of their allocations. Typically, toward the end of fall entering into winter, business slows dramatically whereas hiring takes a back burner. However, if the allocation is slotted for a hire, most managers will do whatever they need to do not to lose such a slot. Once it is removed from the new budget they realize they will have to go through hoops again to get it re-approved. Upper managers tend to believe that if you have gone several months without filling, you apparently can operate without it. UA-17302514-2
That being said, when the budget model is presented and the presenter is deluged with questions about what assumptions are used in the model. Examples of assumptions are tax rate percentages, sales growth rates, mature product lines, capacity levels, cost of goods sold margins, and medical expense rate per person. Approval authorities want to ensure all assumptions are reasonable before wasting too much time reviewing the information that is presented. (Accounting Best Practices by Steven M. Bragg)
So with all this being said this includes the hiring and jockeying of positions. Just because you have interviews does not mean they have been approved. They might be in the mist of being approved during the interview process and when the approving authorities feel there is something missing, the position dissolves, put on hold or relinquished. (Something many jobseekers don't understand such as why it takes so long, didn't they (the company) know they were filling a position, what goes into getting a position approved, was there internal candidates to consider also, Why did they interview externals if they were giving to an internal, the requirements of the EEOC that requires posting of all positions whether given to internal or external, must ensure someone is qualified internal as to interviewing external)
Many avenues have to be considered why positions and hiring slow, end, and/or dissolve. It is business. It is no different than buying a piece of machinery to complete a project to make it simple. If the funding is thought to be there, if mid managers can get it approved, they will do everything within their power to get what they need, personnel included. The simple fact that middle management creates requisitions for positions to be filled along with HR, does not necessary mean they will get filled. (Ref statement above. Interviewing may be taking place during the process of getting approval) Disappointing to many interviewees and jobseekers. Not to take sides with any group, being jobseeker or recruiter, but sometimes recruiters do not have the any idea of what happened. The promise of saying I’ll call you back is with good intentions, but for many if the company just pulls out without any communications to the recruiter then the recruiter is caught sitting on his thumb turning 360 degrees with no idea how to or what to tell a candidate. So as ugly and disrespectful as it seems, how do you call a candidate and tell them, Um I have no idea what happened when the candidate knows they had an awesome interview, they were told they would be called back only to be left with nothing. Simply stated, “That’s Business”
Budgets are not always being cut back in the realm of over spending, cutting back, running out of money. Many actually increase hiring so they will not lose a slotted position and because the end of the calendar or fiscal year is coming close to a close, they hurry to spend the remains of their allocations. Typically, toward the end of fall entering into winter, business slows dramatically whereas hiring takes a back burner. However, if the allocation is slotted for a hire, most managers will do whatever they need to do not to lose such a slot. Once it is removed from the new budget they realize they will have to go through hoops again to get it re-approved. Upper managers tend to believe that if you have gone several months without filling, you apparently can operate without it. UA-17302514-2
Monday, September 20, 2010
If I Could Ask A Millennia One Question, What Would It Be and What is Your Reasoning for Asking
My question would be, “What’s with the ME syndrome”?
Someone has already asked about “The You Owe Me Syndrome,” which I guess can be a part of the ME syndrome.
My curiosity of why I ask this is…
Why do the Millennia feel that someone owes the “ME”? No one owes anyone anything. We are all responsible for our own destiny. The ole adage is work hard, succeed and build a life based on your choosing not based on what someone will give you. When I was growing up you could always count on people. Today’s society steered mainly by the ME attitude is that I cannot count on you unless you get something out of it. I say this with much experience. Having three children, 2 born in the mid, late 80’s, and 1 born at the beginning of the 90’s. The typical Gen Y. They were not brought up that way. They were always taught to respect everyone, lend a hand, and never put your self above the unfortunate. However, their mannerism and attitude has changed from watching their own friends take advantage of those around them. Their response is “Why shouldn’t it be about ME”? As an example, a friend who never sought pity or a handout became unemployed. As he stated, “where were my kids?” When my parents were in need, the children were there to count on so they did not lose everything they worked for all their life. At least the attempt was made to assist. Today’s ME attitude, is you are on your own. I am not saying that it is about the friend being of the ME mentality at all. He’s taken responsibility for his demise and probably would not let his kids help out because he knows they’re not in a position to help, however there is no attempt. None of them ever calls their dad and ask how are you, anything WE can do for you, do you have a place to sleep, and do you have a meal to eat. Nope, it is all about ME. ME has to go party on Friday and Saturday nights. However, ME has no problems when the father was working to come to him asking for a handout. When I got divorced and paying heavily in child support, what was the ME asking, “He doesn’t send ME any money”. They received what could be afforded. Why would you ask a ME question like that? Because they think, they’re owed something. (Note these are just examples, their own friends asked for the same handouts when their parents split up, so it is not stated for sympathy toward anyone, making one think your kids have bad values, it is all around us) Society has changed, and I realize change is good, but not at the detriment of losing value, compassion, and responsibility.
Our country was built on the complexity of WE not the simpleton of ME. It’s in the Declaration of Independence; “WE”hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. In the The Gettysburg Address; “WE" can not dedicate -- "We" can not consecrate -- "WE" can not hallow. The Constitution;"We" the people would write the law --. Do you actually think everyone will always bend to your every whim? You cannot succeed by yourself. As they say, it takes a village to raise a child.
Maybe the Millennia’s do not understand that statement. Are they thinking they were put here to operate by themselves? Can you imagine a global retreat toward only one and everyone being that one? Not everyone can be leaders. You do have to have followers and I’m not suggesting anyone stop striving for the best or stop wanting to become a leader, but what are you going to do when everyone you attempt to lead chooses not to follow because they think along the same lines as “You didn’t hear me say WE, I said ME”? What will you do? What will you do when things do not go your way? In the job force, when you clash or don’t like the job being given, are you merely going to say, “this is not a WE society, this is about the ME society”?
Team effort is about WE not about ME doing it your way. You won’t survive under that analogy. When the top boss says do it his way, it is his company and the team says, I don’t think so, this is not a WE group this about you, you know the one that stresses ME so much and now the team says WE are going home, now you’ll find out just what ME means, because there is a now a truth to the ME. ME has to get it done or ME won’t be around for long. See the same can be used about the friends. When it becomes a WE and they say na, it’s all about ME and leave you to bask in the agony of defeit you’ll find our just what ME is truly all about.
In the movie Wall Street where Michael Douglas playing the role as Gordon Gecko says, “Greed is good.” He may be correct, and honestly, I do not see anything wrong with greed if it is handled in the right light. However, to say greed for ME does not include WE? Imagine in a greed for ME world, every ME wants what you have because you owe them.
Give some thought about the ME syndrome, and remember if you’re thinking it’s all about ME, what are your friends thinking about, are they your friends or are they simply leading you to get what they want. When it comes to ME, there are no friends, there will be no one to count on, no one to turn to, and the world will turn away because all will have the same attitude, “The WE society is dead, and it’s all about ME!” Think about it!
Lastly, being part of the ME syndrome and not willing to start at the bottom, wanting to start at the top; you’ll never be able to run, if the ME’s do not know how to crawl or walk! Without paying your dues, you are definitely setting ME up for failure! Life goes on but will you?
Someone has already asked about “The You Owe Me Syndrome,” which I guess can be a part of the ME syndrome.
My curiosity of why I ask this is…
Why do the Millennia feel that someone owes the “ME”? No one owes anyone anything. We are all responsible for our own destiny. The ole adage is work hard, succeed and build a life based on your choosing not based on what someone will give you. When I was growing up you could always count on people. Today’s society steered mainly by the ME attitude is that I cannot count on you unless you get something out of it. I say this with much experience. Having three children, 2 born in the mid, late 80’s, and 1 born at the beginning of the 90’s. The typical Gen Y. They were not brought up that way. They were always taught to respect everyone, lend a hand, and never put your self above the unfortunate. However, their mannerism and attitude has changed from watching their own friends take advantage of those around them. Their response is “Why shouldn’t it be about ME”? As an example, a friend who never sought pity or a handout became unemployed. As he stated, “where were my kids?” When my parents were in need, the children were there to count on so they did not lose everything they worked for all their life. At least the attempt was made to assist. Today’s ME attitude, is you are on your own. I am not saying that it is about the friend being of the ME mentality at all. He’s taken responsibility for his demise and probably would not let his kids help out because he knows they’re not in a position to help, however there is no attempt. None of them ever calls their dad and ask how are you, anything WE can do for you, do you have a place to sleep, and do you have a meal to eat. Nope, it is all about ME. ME has to go party on Friday and Saturday nights. However, ME has no problems when the father was working to come to him asking for a handout. When I got divorced and paying heavily in child support, what was the ME asking, “He doesn’t send ME any money”. They received what could be afforded. Why would you ask a ME question like that? Because they think, they’re owed something. (Note these are just examples, their own friends asked for the same handouts when their parents split up, so it is not stated for sympathy toward anyone, making one think your kids have bad values, it is all around us) Society has changed, and I realize change is good, but not at the detriment of losing value, compassion, and responsibility.
Our country was built on the complexity of WE not the simpleton of ME. It’s in the Declaration of Independence; “WE”hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. In the The Gettysburg Address; “WE" can not dedicate -- "We" can not consecrate -- "WE" can not hallow. The Constitution;"We" the people would write the law --. Do you actually think everyone will always bend to your every whim? You cannot succeed by yourself. As they say, it takes a village to raise a child.
Maybe the Millennia’s do not understand that statement. Are they thinking they were put here to operate by themselves? Can you imagine a global retreat toward only one and everyone being that one? Not everyone can be leaders. You do have to have followers and I’m not suggesting anyone stop striving for the best or stop wanting to become a leader, but what are you going to do when everyone you attempt to lead chooses not to follow because they think along the same lines as “You didn’t hear me say WE, I said ME”? What will you do? What will you do when things do not go your way? In the job force, when you clash or don’t like the job being given, are you merely going to say, “this is not a WE society, this is about the ME society”?
Team effort is about WE not about ME doing it your way. You won’t survive under that analogy. When the top boss says do it his way, it is his company and the team says, I don’t think so, this is not a WE group this about you, you know the one that stresses ME so much and now the team says WE are going home, now you’ll find out just what ME means, because there is a now a truth to the ME. ME has to get it done or ME won’t be around for long. See the same can be used about the friends. When it becomes a WE and they say na, it’s all about ME and leave you to bask in the agony of defeit you’ll find our just what ME is truly all about.
In the movie Wall Street where Michael Douglas playing the role as Gordon Gecko says, “Greed is good.” He may be correct, and honestly, I do not see anything wrong with greed if it is handled in the right light. However, to say greed for ME does not include WE? Imagine in a greed for ME world, every ME wants what you have because you owe them.
Give some thought about the ME syndrome, and remember if you’re thinking it’s all about ME, what are your friends thinking about, are they your friends or are they simply leading you to get what they want. When it comes to ME, there are no friends, there will be no one to count on, no one to turn to, and the world will turn away because all will have the same attitude, “The WE society is dead, and it’s all about ME!” Think about it!
Lastly, being part of the ME syndrome and not willing to start at the bottom, wanting to start at the top; you’ll never be able to run, if the ME’s do not know how to crawl or walk! Without paying your dues, you are definitely setting ME up for failure! Life goes on but will you?
So You Want to Manage/Supervise People? Is It Not Because of Getting More Money?
You're also asking what are the headaches of supervising People? What would you recomment to people before they take on a supervising position? What are the benefits of managing people compared to a position where you just manage yourself?
It's all in the following.... Read on!
Managing and supervising people is not always about the money. It is as if leading a squadron into battle, are you ready to take on more being a leader? Many decisions lie upon your lead, your direction. I enjoy being a manager/supervisor. Do not always care for the politics, but with every good, there does come evil. You have to accept and move on or retreat to a different position. The ultimate victory is to achieve a win/win scenario. Not always an easy task. You do have to combine your leadership tactics with a servant’s attitude. You have to be ready to please all sides, your upper leadership giving you expectations and their direction as well as your subordinates ensuring they understand your direction and expectations. Again not always an easy task.
I feel it is the ability of being a contributor, a decision maker. Being there to help make a difference and rise to the level beyond bureaucracy, possibly influencing the decision making process. Sure, you can always offer ideas in any position and many just want to be the follower. Getting people involved is like a village raising a child. Motivating, achieving the uncertain. You cannot be indecisive; you have to be a quick study, know what is being asked of you and know without a doubt that you are going to succeed. In most cases, you do not have a choice but to succeed. That is what makes it interesting and forthcoming. A challenge. We are challenged everyday we awake. However, more so working with people to push an idea through, get it noticed, complete a job, and bask in the unknown. Be the one who made it work. I am not talking about recognition. That is another story or question. It’s helping, it’s assisting, it’s building, it‘s teaching, it‘s succeeding. Like an engineer who creates something from the bottom up and gets the joys by seeing it function. Being a manager and/or supervisor is the same joy. Sure, you have bad apples, what baskets do not have one that spoils. What project in an engineer’s eye will not have a bad bolt or screw? Nevertheless, you get the opportunity to watch your department, your business, your district, your people grow and achieve and feel good about being part of that and steering it toward success.
What are the benefits of managing others compared to managing yourself?
It is different but not very different. As a team you work together, you have group input, you are the person who keeps things under control. You manage the time and the final decisions. Managing yourself, you have to have just as much initiative and ambition to complete the task on time successfully, on schedule within guidelines given. You have the reigns so to speak to motivate others who unlike you might see things differently. You can drive hard and the results achieved are slightly different. You choose to motivate yourself regarding time as long as it is completed within the expected time frame. Not so much leading a group. You have to prod some to stay on task, to meet target and you have to accept responsibility for others. For yourself you accept responsibility for yourself. With teams, you have to depend on others, their direction, their uncertainties and certainties. With steering yourself you are either confident in your own decisions or not. Like a battlefield, you make the call, and you hope it is the right call and your troops will follow you into battle. With yourself, you depend on yourself. At the end, it all depends upon your comfort zone. Are you willing to step out the box and be challenged with your team or would you rather relinquish success to just yourself. Everyone has their own reasoning’s for doing and choosing what they do.
What would you recommend to people before they take on a supervising position?
I do believe managing and supervising is not for everyone. I do think it takes a certain type of person that must want to do it; there must be an inert feeling that drives them toward such a success. Managing people comes in many different styles. No one style will work best for every situation. Know your strengths, weaknesses and limitations. Continually learn, read books, white papers, publications in management and utilize self help to personally grow yourself, take advantage of all learning tools, never stop learning and achieving the unexpected, but don’t stop there enable your people to grow too. Get them involved in learning to become better. The more they become better the better you will become. Learn to build trust. Trust is enabled by truth. Building trust can be as easy as delegating, which frees up your time for other opportunities that need attention. However, know the ones you delegate. Know that you can depend on them and let them know you have their back and they will have your back. Learn that there are different styles of management.
Expect challenges and disagreements. Learn how to handle and at times get around them. Learn to have thick skin. Not every personality will click with yours or yours with theirs. Do know that as a manager you are accepting a higher level of expectations, and responsibility. Learn to set yourself and your employees goals. This gives everyone an opportunity to strive. It puts people on a level playing field seeking to achieve what is expected of them.
Do know as a manager/supervisor you have to be a people person to the extent of Human Resource management. You will undoubtedly come against some of the best people in your field but you will also come against some of the most unruly people at times. You have to know what to do and how to handle situations without being judgmental and defensive. Oh it is so easy to become defensive when backed into a corner. Are you ready for this. You are not always going to be right.
In addition, you have to be a good and effective communicator. You have to provide a positive and safe work environment. It all lies on you. Are you ready to handle the stress?
In the end, it does not hurt to have a mentor, someone you can seek advice from and learn, but never be something you are not. Do not be a fake. Be upfront, truthful, and transparent. You will learn your own style of managing in time but do not be a copycat. Your employees need to know what expectations are required of them and how to achieve them.
Below is some great reads that if you want to be successful at managing/supervising I suggest you consider these.
1.The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
2.How to Manage People (Creating Success)
3.Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...
4.It's Your Ship
5.You Lead, They'll Follow: How to Inspire, Lead and Manage People.
I also recommend reads by Zig Ziglar and one person I recommend reading his techniques and is known as the granddaddy to leadership and management is Peter Drucker. There are many books written by him in his time. He had the foresight to see things as they changed.
It's all in the following.... Read on!
Managing and supervising people is not always about the money. It is as if leading a squadron into battle, are you ready to take on more being a leader? Many decisions lie upon your lead, your direction. I enjoy being a manager/supervisor. Do not always care for the politics, but with every good, there does come evil. You have to accept and move on or retreat to a different position. The ultimate victory is to achieve a win/win scenario. Not always an easy task. You do have to combine your leadership tactics with a servant’s attitude. You have to be ready to please all sides, your upper leadership giving you expectations and their direction as well as your subordinates ensuring they understand your direction and expectations. Again not always an easy task.
I feel it is the ability of being a contributor, a decision maker. Being there to help make a difference and rise to the level beyond bureaucracy, possibly influencing the decision making process. Sure, you can always offer ideas in any position and many just want to be the follower. Getting people involved is like a village raising a child. Motivating, achieving the uncertain. You cannot be indecisive; you have to be a quick study, know what is being asked of you and know without a doubt that you are going to succeed. In most cases, you do not have a choice but to succeed. That is what makes it interesting and forthcoming. A challenge. We are challenged everyday we awake. However, more so working with people to push an idea through, get it noticed, complete a job, and bask in the unknown. Be the one who made it work. I am not talking about recognition. That is another story or question. It’s helping, it’s assisting, it’s building, it‘s teaching, it‘s succeeding. Like an engineer who creates something from the bottom up and gets the joys by seeing it function. Being a manager and/or supervisor is the same joy. Sure, you have bad apples, what baskets do not have one that spoils. What project in an engineer’s eye will not have a bad bolt or screw? Nevertheless, you get the opportunity to watch your department, your business, your district, your people grow and achieve and feel good about being part of that and steering it toward success.
What are the benefits of managing others compared to managing yourself?
It is different but not very different. As a team you work together, you have group input, you are the person who keeps things under control. You manage the time and the final decisions. Managing yourself, you have to have just as much initiative and ambition to complete the task on time successfully, on schedule within guidelines given. You have the reigns so to speak to motivate others who unlike you might see things differently. You can drive hard and the results achieved are slightly different. You choose to motivate yourself regarding time as long as it is completed within the expected time frame. Not so much leading a group. You have to prod some to stay on task, to meet target and you have to accept responsibility for others. For yourself you accept responsibility for yourself. With teams, you have to depend on others, their direction, their uncertainties and certainties. With steering yourself you are either confident in your own decisions or not. Like a battlefield, you make the call, and you hope it is the right call and your troops will follow you into battle. With yourself, you depend on yourself. At the end, it all depends upon your comfort zone. Are you willing to step out the box and be challenged with your team or would you rather relinquish success to just yourself. Everyone has their own reasoning’s for doing and choosing what they do.
What would you recommend to people before they take on a supervising position?
I do believe managing and supervising is not for everyone. I do think it takes a certain type of person that must want to do it; there must be an inert feeling that drives them toward such a success. Managing people comes in many different styles. No one style will work best for every situation. Know your strengths, weaknesses and limitations. Continually learn, read books, white papers, publications in management and utilize self help to personally grow yourself, take advantage of all learning tools, never stop learning and achieving the unexpected, but don’t stop there enable your people to grow too. Get them involved in learning to become better. The more they become better the better you will become. Learn to build trust. Trust is enabled by truth. Building trust can be as easy as delegating, which frees up your time for other opportunities that need attention. However, know the ones you delegate. Know that you can depend on them and let them know you have their back and they will have your back. Learn that there are different styles of management.
Expect challenges and disagreements. Learn how to handle and at times get around them. Learn to have thick skin. Not every personality will click with yours or yours with theirs. Do know that as a manager you are accepting a higher level of expectations, and responsibility. Learn to set yourself and your employees goals. This gives everyone an opportunity to strive. It puts people on a level playing field seeking to achieve what is expected of them.
Do know as a manager/supervisor you have to be a people person to the extent of Human Resource management. You will undoubtedly come against some of the best people in your field but you will also come against some of the most unruly people at times. You have to know what to do and how to handle situations without being judgmental and defensive. Oh it is so easy to become defensive when backed into a corner. Are you ready for this. You are not always going to be right.
In addition, you have to be a good and effective communicator. You have to provide a positive and safe work environment. It all lies on you. Are you ready to handle the stress?
In the end, it does not hurt to have a mentor, someone you can seek advice from and learn, but never be something you are not. Do not be a fake. Be upfront, truthful, and transparent. You will learn your own style of managing in time but do not be a copycat. Your employees need to know what expectations are required of them and how to achieve them.
Below is some great reads that if you want to be successful at managing/supervising I suggest you consider these.
1.The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
2.How to Manage People (Creating Success)
3.Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...
4.It's Your Ship
5.You Lead, They'll Follow: How to Inspire, Lead and Manage People.
I also recommend reads by Zig Ziglar and one person I recommend reading his techniques and is known as the granddaddy to leadership and management is Peter Drucker. There are many books written by him in his time. He had the foresight to see things as they changed.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
The Peter Principal
I have seen this throughout my career. As it has been stated, smaller companies tend to pursue this area of incompetence to keep the majority from an uprising so to speak, as when not bringing in someone of a higher skill level it can stifle the growth of any organization. However, it does not necessarily just happen in small companies. I've worked for larger organizations and simply because people are in the in crowd so to speak they simply move into positions where they might have been top notch in their current position but their skill sets changes and they assume they know what to do and because they don't and they've not been trained in that hierarchy position they create ambiguity, discontent, and uneasiness amongst team players and/or associates.
Clearly, we have all seen this happen where John/Jane Doe obtains their position not by what they know but whom they knew. Incapable of handling the position in areas of communication, direction, strategies, improvements, growth to name a few. You realize there is no way someone in the path that has been obtained can clearly work through that particular position.
I think it goes along with the adage of if you want to get rid of someone you either promote them or fire them.
This affects many areas of business. It creates dismay across the spectrum of people this person has power over. It is not fair to the people that strive to get to certain levels but never see it. This person has no outlook or foresight for what the position encompasses… They may be able to learn certain aspects, but they tend to have to lean on the person who got them to the point where they are. It is like carrying a broken ladder everywhere you go, hoping you can get to the top without anyone noticing you are climbing up a faulty tool to perform the job.
Incompetence in the workplace is what stifles growth, challenges, and creativity. If you do not understand what the skills sets are in the position you have been given how can you lead and expect any type of success. Eventually you lose as a whole. Your good people will leave or seek different avenues not to be judged or associated with the downfall of the incompetent. The only ones left to follow is those that won't create any ripple effect and those that are following along the same lines as the one put into the position that is incompetent. Eventually your whole hierarchy has become incompetent and yet management wonders why things are occurring the way they are and obtaining the results they did not want to obtain. Clearly, at some point, the incompetence comes to a head and the person them self has realized they have come to the end of the road and no further progress can occur.
One example I can remember is seeing a floor supervisor clearly express his views to his superior about a friend the superior had hired on and how the superior wanted to get the friend promoted. The supervisor stated his reasoning that there were others more qualified and deserving and who had been striving for such a position. The supervisor clearly refused to sign off on it and without his signature, it could not be done. The supervisor was eventually moved out of the department eventually laid off and the friend was put in place. Here is the clincher. The superior who got the friend promoted found out down the road that although the friend whom he promoted continuously played his cards up the ladder he eventually got the superior (his friend who got him the job) laid off and obtained the superiors job. In turn the friend started promoting his own friends and acquaintances to hierarchy positions where it was clearly noted even the most ignorant can obtain a position despite what they knew. Could they actually perform in the position, sure, as long as they had the friend to lean on. The Peter Principal works great within the buddy system.
If noted, you one can see that the Parkinson law will at times follow suit with the Peter Principal. You see some incompetent get into a position they cannot handle or perform so the easiest way to make the job tolerable is to add to the bureaucracy despite the amount of work that is to be done, there is always someone to shoulder the skill sets so the incompetent will not fall from power.
Our government clearly fits the Peter Principal and the Parkinson Law. You put people into positions they are unqualified for and they will A. Fill it with for example five people to do a one persons job. B. Fill your task with bogus issues that would typically be performed in 1 day, it now takes a week.
You have to fill all the people you hired to perform your job with idiotic task to justify their need for you to appear you are accomplishing the task that you are not qualified to do.
You may also want to read about the Dunning-Kruger effect whereas someone who is incompetent chooses to put other incompetence’s in place and may not know that they are doing it because of their own in competences. It also goes into talking about how incompetent people will unjustly rate themselves higher in all aspects of competence as compared to how their peers rate them.
Interesting topic- this is the kind of discussion I really appreciate. Thanks for asking.
http://www.heretical.com/miscella/parkinsl.html
http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k
Clearly, we have all seen this happen where John/Jane Doe obtains their position not by what they know but whom they knew. Incapable of handling the position in areas of communication, direction, strategies, improvements, growth to name a few. You realize there is no way someone in the path that has been obtained can clearly work through that particular position.
I think it goes along with the adage of if you want to get rid of someone you either promote them or fire them.
This affects many areas of business. It creates dismay across the spectrum of people this person has power over. It is not fair to the people that strive to get to certain levels but never see it. This person has no outlook or foresight for what the position encompasses… They may be able to learn certain aspects, but they tend to have to lean on the person who got them to the point where they are. It is like carrying a broken ladder everywhere you go, hoping you can get to the top without anyone noticing you are climbing up a faulty tool to perform the job.
Incompetence in the workplace is what stifles growth, challenges, and creativity. If you do not understand what the skills sets are in the position you have been given how can you lead and expect any type of success. Eventually you lose as a whole. Your good people will leave or seek different avenues not to be judged or associated with the downfall of the incompetent. The only ones left to follow is those that won't create any ripple effect and those that are following along the same lines as the one put into the position that is incompetent. Eventually your whole hierarchy has become incompetent and yet management wonders why things are occurring the way they are and obtaining the results they did not want to obtain. Clearly, at some point, the incompetence comes to a head and the person them self has realized they have come to the end of the road and no further progress can occur.
One example I can remember is seeing a floor supervisor clearly express his views to his superior about a friend the superior had hired on and how the superior wanted to get the friend promoted. The supervisor stated his reasoning that there were others more qualified and deserving and who had been striving for such a position. The supervisor clearly refused to sign off on it and without his signature, it could not be done. The supervisor was eventually moved out of the department eventually laid off and the friend was put in place. Here is the clincher. The superior who got the friend promoted found out down the road that although the friend whom he promoted continuously played his cards up the ladder he eventually got the superior (his friend who got him the job) laid off and obtained the superiors job. In turn the friend started promoting his own friends and acquaintances to hierarchy positions where it was clearly noted even the most ignorant can obtain a position despite what they knew. Could they actually perform in the position, sure, as long as they had the friend to lean on. The Peter Principal works great within the buddy system.
If noted, you one can see that the Parkinson law will at times follow suit with the Peter Principal. You see some incompetent get into a position they cannot handle or perform so the easiest way to make the job tolerable is to add to the bureaucracy despite the amount of work that is to be done, there is always someone to shoulder the skill sets so the incompetent will not fall from power.
Our government clearly fits the Peter Principal and the Parkinson Law. You put people into positions they are unqualified for and they will A. Fill it with for example five people to do a one persons job. B. Fill your task with bogus issues that would typically be performed in 1 day, it now takes a week.
You have to fill all the people you hired to perform your job with idiotic task to justify their need for you to appear you are accomplishing the task that you are not qualified to do.
You may also want to read about the Dunning-Kruger effect whereas someone who is incompetent chooses to put other incompetence’s in place and may not know that they are doing it because of their own in competences. It also goes into talking about how incompetent people will unjustly rate themselves higher in all aspects of competence as compared to how their peers rate them.
Interesting topic- this is the kind of discussion I really appreciate. Thanks for asking.
http://www.heretical.com/miscella/parkinsl.html
http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k
Are Entrepreneurs Executives
Although a difference in definition between an entrepreneur and an executive both must be considered for the roles that they play and each must be familiar with these roles.
“The myth: entrepreneurs are great for getting a company started, but not so great when Wall Street is looking over their shoulder. Part of this thinking is that founders of companies are mavericks, passionate doers with a vision, nontraditional in their approach to management and outspoken - the kind of rabble rousing that makes investors uneasy.” (Brad Szollose) Source attached- and a very good read.
As Brad indicates, a true executive is one who has passion for their role. He gives many examples from Steve Jobs to Harley Davidson from their time based successes to the falling of the company to the success it took by bringing back the entrepreneur to reestablish the successes of these companies.
I agree that it my be a stereotype version of what an executive is or required to do, but with all entrepreneurs they have passion and to mix the two together as a relationship means you have an executive who has passion for what they do, and achieve. I do not particularly agree that you have to have all these special skills to be an executive. A good executive will have vision. An entrepreneur will have vision toward his success in achieving a small business. In time, yes, it grows with successes, but although it can fail, many large corporations fail with so-called stereotypical titles of an executive. Both have to have the inert recipe toward success and the will and knowledge to grow.
“Entrepreneurs must understand that their business(es) should run without them. Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds. He created tight methods for creating every product on the menu. In a business where profit margins are very tight, Kroc showed investors that his structure assured profits, whether he was there or not. Look at Lee Iacocca, former President Bill Clinton, John Johnson, Mary Kay-Ash, Donald Trump, Malcolm Forbes, Warren Buffet, Tony Robbins, Hilary Clinton, HP's former CEO Carly Fiorina, etc. All are reflections of balance between an entrepreneur's spirit and a corporate executive's strategy. The balance between passion and discipline is what drives all of them.”
(Brad Szollose)
As Brad defines both, he clearly makes the paradigm that it is a matter of right brain thinking and left-brain thinking and learning to make both work together.
I think most small businesses are executive leaders although they might not view themselves as such since their main objective is to role up their sleeves, work hard, succeed and profit. Nevertheless, in reality, their status although that is really all it is, is a status quo, they do reflect on the executive analogy with the entrepreneur thinking.
The main difference as stated in the document provided is the entrepreneur works for himself, the executive works for others. One earns his way whereas the other is paid in salary, bonuses and perks. One might be rough around the edges, but they both have vision, they both have passion and they both aim to succeed!
“The myth: entrepreneurs are great for getting a company started, but not so great when Wall Street is looking over their shoulder. Part of this thinking is that founders of companies are mavericks, passionate doers with a vision, nontraditional in their approach to management and outspoken - the kind of rabble rousing that makes investors uneasy.” (Brad Szollose) Source attached- and a very good read.
As Brad indicates, a true executive is one who has passion for their role. He gives many examples from Steve Jobs to Harley Davidson from their time based successes to the falling of the company to the success it took by bringing back the entrepreneur to reestablish the successes of these companies.
I agree that it my be a stereotype version of what an executive is or required to do, but with all entrepreneurs they have passion and to mix the two together as a relationship means you have an executive who has passion for what they do, and achieve. I do not particularly agree that you have to have all these special skills to be an executive. A good executive will have vision. An entrepreneur will have vision toward his success in achieving a small business. In time, yes, it grows with successes, but although it can fail, many large corporations fail with so-called stereotypical titles of an executive. Both have to have the inert recipe toward success and the will and knowledge to grow.
“Entrepreneurs must understand that their business(es) should run without them. Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds. He created tight methods for creating every product on the menu. In a business where profit margins are very tight, Kroc showed investors that his structure assured profits, whether he was there or not. Look at Lee Iacocca, former President Bill Clinton, John Johnson, Mary Kay-Ash, Donald Trump, Malcolm Forbes, Warren Buffet, Tony Robbins, Hilary Clinton, HP's former CEO Carly Fiorina, etc. All are reflections of balance between an entrepreneur's spirit and a corporate executive's strategy. The balance between passion and discipline is what drives all of them.”
(Brad Szollose)
As Brad defines both, he clearly makes the paradigm that it is a matter of right brain thinking and left-brain thinking and learning to make both work together.
I think most small businesses are executive leaders although they might not view themselves as such since their main objective is to role up their sleeves, work hard, succeed and profit. Nevertheless, in reality, their status although that is really all it is, is a status quo, they do reflect on the executive analogy with the entrepreneur thinking.
The main difference as stated in the document provided is the entrepreneur works for himself, the executive works for others. One earns his way whereas the other is paid in salary, bonuses and perks. One might be rough around the edges, but they both have vision, they both have passion and they both aim to succeed!
Selling Yourself
During a Discussion I was having the conversation tip toward interviewing, here's what I said.
A sharing moment- As George said we are all salesperson. Most people IMHO do not know how to sell anything let alone selling themselves. Why would they. If all you have ever done were work a lathe 20 years, how would you even begin to sell something you know nothing about? Ever looked at a site where they have a title called "About Me"? What I have seen in those sections is, "I have a hard time talking about myself so if you want to know something just ask". Clear indication they do not even know about their own product "themselves". In my opinion, you can have the best-looking resume, but if you cannot tell someone about you, yourself, your resume is a waste of time. It is just pretty words you cannot backup. All throughout my career, I have been told I need public speaking classes to help me relax when I speak. I have gotten a zillion times better over time because like anything else you have to practice and familiarize yourself with what you are speaking or selling. In my case, it helped me when I was tied to sales. Although my experience has always been in management, sales was a new area to tackle. However, once you are forced to talk to clients and you do not want to screw it up you learn real quick what you say can win the client or lose them. As someone told me not to long ago, think about your interview as a sales call and think of it as you have a resource you are selling to a client that has a need and you have the resolution to that need.
In Mark D's mantra response to himself, one thing I always think of is the little train that could. I think I can I think I can I think I can and eventually you'll say I know I can I know I can.
As in sales, I have made myself numerous study sheets for my product "ME". I have my elevator pitch that I study constantly so it does not come off as just something I memorized. I want it to be as natural as if I did it today, yesterday or tomorrow. I've reviewed my resume in and out and anything that sparks a potential tell me about a time... or tell me about.... I have a list of the words, I know what I did, but I also know the definition to those words so I know if I'm thrown a curve ball I am still able to reference my answers in my mind as to what is it they're really wanting to know. 2ndly, I also have a list of questions that I am familiar with that most of the time you are asked during an interview. I have studied these in and out with not just an answer but with live examples when things happen to me. I cannot tell you how many times I interviewed someone and when asking a question the response is, “um I can’t think of anything”. I have fallen short to that myself on occasions, which is why I came up with my own study guide. I carry it with me everywhere I go and when I have down time I study, study study.
Here are a couple of other things that might help someone. Others may say different or similar, but do you know a couple of things that will hamper an interview? The word "UM" or using the word "uh". Use it throughout your conversation as in every other word because yes they know you are nervous but it shows you are not sure of what you are saying. In addition, do you know why speakers will use the phrase "that's a very good question"? Typically because they don't have an answer to what is being asked so this gives the person just enough time so to speak for the mind to sort through all this information and come up with the answer to what is being asked.
Lastly, when your interviewer ask you tell me about yourself. In my experience and all the seminars and on behavioral interviewing I have always been taught do not tell them about your kids in little league, you wife how you love her apple pie, and how you just love sitting around watching football or NASCAR. This is not what they are asking. What they want to know is “tell me about you, professionally” not personally. These are tips I have learned over time that has worked for me. I am not a recruiter and play a terrible one online, but you would be surprised how simple little tips can make or break an interview. Although, I am clearly not a pro at this and I still stumble more so than most, I am still learning.
Bottom line is study, prepare, study, prepare.
A sharing moment- As George said we are all salesperson. Most people IMHO do not know how to sell anything let alone selling themselves. Why would they. If all you have ever done were work a lathe 20 years, how would you even begin to sell something you know nothing about? Ever looked at a site where they have a title called "About Me"? What I have seen in those sections is, "I have a hard time talking about myself so if you want to know something just ask". Clear indication they do not even know about their own product "themselves". In my opinion, you can have the best-looking resume, but if you cannot tell someone about you, yourself, your resume is a waste of time. It is just pretty words you cannot backup. All throughout my career, I have been told I need public speaking classes to help me relax when I speak. I have gotten a zillion times better over time because like anything else you have to practice and familiarize yourself with what you are speaking or selling. In my case, it helped me when I was tied to sales. Although my experience has always been in management, sales was a new area to tackle. However, once you are forced to talk to clients and you do not want to screw it up you learn real quick what you say can win the client or lose them. As someone told me not to long ago, think about your interview as a sales call and think of it as you have a resource you are selling to a client that has a need and you have the resolution to that need.
In Mark D's mantra response to himself, one thing I always think of is the little train that could. I think I can I think I can I think I can and eventually you'll say I know I can I know I can.
As in sales, I have made myself numerous study sheets for my product "ME". I have my elevator pitch that I study constantly so it does not come off as just something I memorized. I want it to be as natural as if I did it today, yesterday or tomorrow. I've reviewed my resume in and out and anything that sparks a potential tell me about a time... or tell me about.... I have a list of the words, I know what I did, but I also know the definition to those words so I know if I'm thrown a curve ball I am still able to reference my answers in my mind as to what is it they're really wanting to know. 2ndly, I also have a list of questions that I am familiar with that most of the time you are asked during an interview. I have studied these in and out with not just an answer but with live examples when things happen to me. I cannot tell you how many times I interviewed someone and when asking a question the response is, “um I can’t think of anything”. I have fallen short to that myself on occasions, which is why I came up with my own study guide. I carry it with me everywhere I go and when I have down time I study, study study.
Here are a couple of other things that might help someone. Others may say different or similar, but do you know a couple of things that will hamper an interview? The word "UM" or using the word "uh". Use it throughout your conversation as in every other word because yes they know you are nervous but it shows you are not sure of what you are saying. In addition, do you know why speakers will use the phrase "that's a very good question"? Typically because they don't have an answer to what is being asked so this gives the person just enough time so to speak for the mind to sort through all this information and come up with the answer to what is being asked.
Lastly, when your interviewer ask you tell me about yourself. In my experience and all the seminars and on behavioral interviewing I have always been taught do not tell them about your kids in little league, you wife how you love her apple pie, and how you just love sitting around watching football or NASCAR. This is not what they are asking. What they want to know is “tell me about you, professionally” not personally. These are tips I have learned over time that has worked for me. I am not a recruiter and play a terrible one online, but you would be surprised how simple little tips can make or break an interview. Although, I am clearly not a pro at this and I still stumble more so than most, I am still learning.
Bottom line is study, prepare, study, prepare.
What Actual Does Service Mean
Servant’s attitude. Doing something for the benefit of others. Not thinking of your bottom-line. Thinking of caring, understanding and meeting the dilemma of your client, internal and external. Knowing that with proper service engaged that your windfall would come back 10fold. Service is paying forward. Accepting and acknowledging being the best at what you offer, what you stand for and what you represent. Service is like faith or for some karma. Doing what is right without question, without expectations of receipt.
Supply Chain Management vs Logistics, Aren't They the Same
SCM is the management of material and information flow in a supply chain to provide the highest degree of customer satisfaction at the lowest possible cost. SCM requires commitment of supply chain partners to work closely to coordinate order generation, order taking, and order fulfillment thus, creating an 'extended enterprise' spreading far beyond the producer's location.
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources in a repair cycle between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the requirements of customers. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and occasionally security. Logistics is a channel of the supply chain which adds the value of time and place utility. Today the complexity of production logistics can be modeled, analyzed, visualized and optimized by plant simulation software.
Logistics is an entity of the SCM system. Supply chain is anything from cradle to grave. Logistics is an interim factor within the chain. Your SCM can entail the beginning of actual purchases, vendors, material, manufacturing, waste, completion, inventory, storage, etc., whereas Logistics is just as Marissa indicated, the movement and tracking of the end product where it gets stored before it gets delivered and the shape it is received in.
Everything you can imagine has some sort of SCM working in place. Even such things as a blog have an SCM. But not everything has logistics. Although they sound familiar and seemingly paths may cross but there is a clear distinction.
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources in a repair cycle between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the requirements of customers. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and occasionally security. Logistics is a channel of the supply chain which adds the value of time and place utility. Today the complexity of production logistics can be modeled, analyzed, visualized and optimized by plant simulation software.
Logistics is an entity of the SCM system. Supply chain is anything from cradle to grave. Logistics is an interim factor within the chain. Your SCM can entail the beginning of actual purchases, vendors, material, manufacturing, waste, completion, inventory, storage, etc., whereas Logistics is just as Marissa indicated, the movement and tracking of the end product where it gets stored before it gets delivered and the shape it is received in.
Everything you can imagine has some sort of SCM working in place. Even such things as a blog have an SCM. But not everything has logistics. Although they sound familiar and seemingly paths may cross but there is a clear distinction.
What is Your Management Style
To define a management style or your management style you need to know the role. Typically the main focus is on managing people and their activities. It differs and sometimes out of the realm of people management, such as process management.
Managers ensure things get done, focusing on daily task by managing the activities of others. Managers often times have a directive approach utilizing prescribe agendas to fulfill their roles and capabilities more so in an organizational style approach. This doesn’t mean they can direct people because they’re process oriented. Managers are usually just high performers of what they may have done in previous roles.
There are distinctions in leaders and managers, whereas leaders are more strategically sound and inspire people to get the task done. This is simply an inert ability from within that gives leaders the stamina to push people and get the objective accomplished. They use whatever works in their arsenal of skills to motivate their people and get the work out of them. Leadership skills are really more behavioral than management skills. Leaders are change oriented knowing that changes will better the successes.
Both skill sets have to be able to work together when one is given the role to manage/ lead. Not everyone is a good manager and not everyone is a good leader. However there are those that can do both and compliment each skill set with the other.
So for me to say what kind of Manager I am, I am process driven. I am organized and detail oriented despite what I have to do to get it done. Whether it’s delegate, or manage step by step I am processed oriented toward continuous improvements and best practices.
As a leader I am more inspiring although wanting to get it done from my management strengths, I believe by empowering the employees to be creative and offer openness and think outside the box will give them a since of ownership and contribution toward the success and when you have a successful project stimulated by successful employees that have a buy in as being part of the process instead of being nothing more than a machine the overall outcome is win/win.
Managers ensure things get done, focusing on daily task by managing the activities of others. Managers often times have a directive approach utilizing prescribe agendas to fulfill their roles and capabilities more so in an organizational style approach. This doesn’t mean they can direct people because they’re process oriented. Managers are usually just high performers of what they may have done in previous roles.
There are distinctions in leaders and managers, whereas leaders are more strategically sound and inspire people to get the task done. This is simply an inert ability from within that gives leaders the stamina to push people and get the objective accomplished. They use whatever works in their arsenal of skills to motivate their people and get the work out of them. Leadership skills are really more behavioral than management skills. Leaders are change oriented knowing that changes will better the successes.
Both skill sets have to be able to work together when one is given the role to manage/ lead. Not everyone is a good manager and not everyone is a good leader. However there are those that can do both and compliment each skill set with the other.
So for me to say what kind of Manager I am, I am process driven. I am organized and detail oriented despite what I have to do to get it done. Whether it’s delegate, or manage step by step I am processed oriented toward continuous improvements and best practices.
As a leader I am more inspiring although wanting to get it done from my management strengths, I believe by empowering the employees to be creative and offer openness and think outside the box will give them a since of ownership and contribution toward the success and when you have a successful project stimulated by successful employees that have a buy in as being part of the process instead of being nothing more than a machine the overall outcome is win/win.
Catching the Problems Before the Infection Takes Hold
I think both Tom and David are correct. I also feel this will be the next big blow in the main stream as we move out of this economic downfall whereas many companies are hiring not based on experience levels but rather recreating the wheel so to speak as they hire for the low end dollar effect thinking they want everything but not willing to pay the piper. So they hire someone in that may have book knowledge but actual physical experience is costly so they choose the lesser of two evils only in belief that they will make it through the “Perfect Storm.”
In a collaborative agreement I feel Tom makes good points on catching the problems before the infection takes hold., whereas David indicates whether before, during or after it can still be corrected. First off I feel you have know there’s a hole in the ship in order to patch it or you’ll slowly sink despite what your plans maybe. Knowing ahead of time to bring supplies on board for the “what if” scenario will definitely give you the band-aid effect should something happen, you’ll be prepared.
The significance of having the right tools in place will definitely by you time, but once you’re there you definitely have to have a buy-in by all parties, from the ground floor upwards, or you’re spinning your wheels. Financial planning through five key elements, process, organization, knowledge management, technology, and performance management can give leaders the necessary tools to react promptly and come out even stronger.
In a collaborative agreement I feel Tom makes good points on catching the problems before the infection takes hold., whereas David indicates whether before, during or after it can still be corrected. First off I feel you have know there’s a hole in the ship in order to patch it or you’ll slowly sink despite what your plans maybe. Knowing ahead of time to bring supplies on board for the “what if” scenario will definitely give you the band-aid effect should something happen, you’ll be prepared.
The significance of having the right tools in place will definitely by you time, but once you’re there you definitely have to have a buy-in by all parties, from the ground floor upwards, or you’re spinning your wheels. Financial planning through five key elements, process, organization, knowledge management, technology, and performance management can give leaders the necessary tools to react promptly and come out even stronger.
Are We Losing All Hope
I was talkin with a gentleman who was frustrated with the unemployment system and was bashing everyone no matter what part they had in the hiring process... See what I told him in my opinion.
Your aggravation and frustration is noted, but at least you still have a mortgage to pay. Meaning you have not lost it all yet. Many have lost everything. In my situation, I moved back to my hometown and am living with a 104 year old and a 78 year old who has dementia. The only thing I have left is a vehicle and a washer and dryer, a television and a coffee pot, oh and my computer. How embarrassing is that to be of my age depending on two older ladies to aid me. One more month and I'm probably going to lose my vehicle. Now I'm really up a creek without a paddle. How will I get to interviews or for that fact a job if offered? There will be no more money after this month. No one else owns a vehicle. My biggest fear even over death is always hoping and praying I would never fall victim to such an ordeal whereas "could I be forced at some point to live under the interstate like many homeless do?" It is a scary feeling.
However, as determined as my elders are despite their setbacks they are determined to help in any way possible. So do not feel you are the only one out there that faces such issues. Moreover, I do not say any of this seeking pity and sympathy. By no means is it anyone’s fault but the economy and mine. Nevertheless as burnt out as I am since I give it 150% everyday I get up, try to put on a good face, and give it 12 hours a day give or take some down time and assisting to the elders needs as a contribution to paying them back for what they do, 7 days a week, I'm determined not to give up. Something somehow, somewhere by the grace of God, I will pull through.
I have found getting all worked up and bashing the system, companies and others who work for the system really will not stop the process. You can adapt or fall prey.
As far as children are concerned, I would not want to live in their days ahead as the future progresses. Surely, things will change and a systematic rhythm will take place that smoothes thing out for their generations to survive the way things have become. I feel that the great American dream has been stifled and harnessed and put on the back burner for now. Unless the economic fallout changes and the economy balances out to meet what companies are trying to inflict by reducing pay scales kids of the future will have it just as hard if not harder.
All I can say is keeping up with technology, being flexible, ready at a moments notice, is all the kids as well as you and I can do at the moment and keep proceeding and not give up. Despite seeking an answer for the WHY's and the WHAT is going on... it really does not matter, companies owe nothing to anyone. They could just as easily close shop tomorrow as to hire 1000's. It is the way the fallout has come about. I truly respect your situation and in reading your reply's I feel you're senior over me and I can empathize with you on the downfall of all your years of hardwork watching it go out the window.
Your aggravation and frustration is noted, but at least you still have a mortgage to pay. Meaning you have not lost it all yet. Many have lost everything. In my situation, I moved back to my hometown and am living with a 104 year old and a 78 year old who has dementia. The only thing I have left is a vehicle and a washer and dryer, a television and a coffee pot, oh and my computer. How embarrassing is that to be of my age depending on two older ladies to aid me. One more month and I'm probably going to lose my vehicle. Now I'm really up a creek without a paddle. How will I get to interviews or for that fact a job if offered? There will be no more money after this month. No one else owns a vehicle. My biggest fear even over death is always hoping and praying I would never fall victim to such an ordeal whereas "could I be forced at some point to live under the interstate like many homeless do?" It is a scary feeling.
However, as determined as my elders are despite their setbacks they are determined to help in any way possible. So do not feel you are the only one out there that faces such issues. Moreover, I do not say any of this seeking pity and sympathy. By no means is it anyone’s fault but the economy and mine. Nevertheless as burnt out as I am since I give it 150% everyday I get up, try to put on a good face, and give it 12 hours a day give or take some down time and assisting to the elders needs as a contribution to paying them back for what they do, 7 days a week, I'm determined not to give up. Something somehow, somewhere by the grace of God, I will pull through.
I have found getting all worked up and bashing the system, companies and others who work for the system really will not stop the process. You can adapt or fall prey.
As far as children are concerned, I would not want to live in their days ahead as the future progresses. Surely, things will change and a systematic rhythm will take place that smoothes thing out for their generations to survive the way things have become. I feel that the great American dream has been stifled and harnessed and put on the back burner for now. Unless the economic fallout changes and the economy balances out to meet what companies are trying to inflict by reducing pay scales kids of the future will have it just as hard if not harder.
All I can say is keeping up with technology, being flexible, ready at a moments notice, is all the kids as well as you and I can do at the moment and keep proceeding and not give up. Despite seeking an answer for the WHY's and the WHAT is going on... it really does not matter, companies owe nothing to anyone. They could just as easily close shop tomorrow as to hire 1000's. It is the way the fallout has come about. I truly respect your situation and in reading your reply's I feel you're senior over me and I can empathize with you on the downfall of all your years of hardwork watching it go out the window.
Does Having Children Make You a Better Manager
Very controversial topic. Psychology Today depicts the answer as yes based on Joanne Stern, Ph.D., whom is a psychotherapist.
However, I would venture to turn the question around as “Have you learned proper management/leadership skills from being parented by your mother and father?” “What have you learned that makes you or has allowed you to follow this path?” “What makes you a better manager from what has been instilled in your thought process and values?” Not everything is driven by academics in school or what you are born with.
Children are just that, children, which are easily influenced day to day. The things you can attribute to possibly learning are building trust, improving communications, empowering but these same attibutes being respective of those who don't or can't have children, can be learned as a pet owner such as a dog owner or a cat owner.
You have to have and show discipline, you have to have and show patience, you have to give instructions, and many pets can be challenging. You have to be there when they are sick or do you let them expire? So does being a pet owner make you a better manager?
I think there are attributes that can very easily be depicted from your question, but not always. Example- I heard a story of a pastor who stood at the pulpit every Sunday preaching how to respect your wife, how you should treat them but people had heard the pastor was everything opposite he spoke about. When the story final broke the news, the pastor was exactly what he was saying not to be. He was mistreating his wife, beating her, disrespecting her. Does this mean he was a better pastor because he was married and capable of talking on the topic and practicing in public?
Therefore, IMHO, I do not really think by having a family and/or children makes you a better manager. You might be a little bit more aware of certain aspects. All in all I really think good management/leadership is and inert ability from what you’ve been taught, what you’ve learned, your beliefs, and how you deal with things and much has a lot to do with personality traits, Type A and Type B’s, not with how you rear your kids.
In the personality category, a Type B is a person who is introverted and Type A is extroverted. Type A’s make better leaders and tend to need the lime light, and like being in the middle of things, whereas Type B’s rather sit back and not be in the spotlight, not giving direction. This is not to say Type B’s cannot be a great leader but the inert desire to manage/lead is usually something you as a person want. Type B’s usually (not always choose) choose to be a follower. Does that mean a Type B because he/she does not want to manage/lead make him/her a good manager/leader if he/she now has children? We all know right from wrong, we all learn from different aspects but believing you are a better manager because you can base your experiences off of the ability to manage little people doesn’t mean you’re cut out to manage a business force.
You could actually start the discussion whereas is women better managers than men? It’s all perception and what your inert adeptness is to how you manage/lead. And if the case in point is true that women are better managers than men, then that would mean they get all the kudos for spending more time with the children that has taught them the many avenues to become better managers. Be careful what is imposed in belief.
http://www.thepracticeofleadership.net/.../peter-drucker-on-leadership/
http://managementhelp.org/ldr_dev/samples/samples.htm
However, I would venture to turn the question around as “Have you learned proper management/leadership skills from being parented by your mother and father?” “What have you learned that makes you or has allowed you to follow this path?” “What makes you a better manager from what has been instilled in your thought process and values?” Not everything is driven by academics in school or what you are born with.
Children are just that, children, which are easily influenced day to day. The things you can attribute to possibly learning are building trust, improving communications, empowering but these same attibutes being respective of those who don't or can't have children, can be learned as a pet owner such as a dog owner or a cat owner.
You have to have and show discipline, you have to have and show patience, you have to give instructions, and many pets can be challenging. You have to be there when they are sick or do you let them expire? So does being a pet owner make you a better manager?
I think there are attributes that can very easily be depicted from your question, but not always. Example- I heard a story of a pastor who stood at the pulpit every Sunday preaching how to respect your wife, how you should treat them but people had heard the pastor was everything opposite he spoke about. When the story final broke the news, the pastor was exactly what he was saying not to be. He was mistreating his wife, beating her, disrespecting her. Does this mean he was a better pastor because he was married and capable of talking on the topic and practicing in public?
Therefore, IMHO, I do not really think by having a family and/or children makes you a better manager. You might be a little bit more aware of certain aspects. All in all I really think good management/leadership is and inert ability from what you’ve been taught, what you’ve learned, your beliefs, and how you deal with things and much has a lot to do with personality traits, Type A and Type B’s, not with how you rear your kids.
In the personality category, a Type B is a person who is introverted and Type A is extroverted. Type A’s make better leaders and tend to need the lime light, and like being in the middle of things, whereas Type B’s rather sit back and not be in the spotlight, not giving direction. This is not to say Type B’s cannot be a great leader but the inert desire to manage/lead is usually something you as a person want. Type B’s usually (not always choose) choose to be a follower. Does that mean a Type B because he/she does not want to manage/lead make him/her a good manager/leader if he/she now has children? We all know right from wrong, we all learn from different aspects but believing you are a better manager because you can base your experiences off of the ability to manage little people doesn’t mean you’re cut out to manage a business force.
You could actually start the discussion whereas is women better managers than men? It’s all perception and what your inert adeptness is to how you manage/lead. And if the case in point is true that women are better managers than men, then that would mean they get all the kudos for spending more time with the children that has taught them the many avenues to become better managers. Be careful what is imposed in belief.
http://www.thepracticeofleadership.net/.../peter-drucker-on-leadership/
http://managementhelp.org/ldr_dev/samples/samples.htm
Confidence
You know I learned this not to long back. It's the fear of rejection. I guess it's easier to learn things the older you get. Yet they say you can't teach old dawgs new tricks. Anyhow, an older woman told me during a discussion about dating. Yes, I'm single and 50 and as most guys it has always been a low blow or an ego slap to be rejected when asking someone to dance or whatever it might be. I took her advice and turned toward my business ethics so to speak. She said, "Rejection is nothing to be afraid of. If someone rejects you, simply it’s a message that you do not want to be involved with that person anyway. That person actually saved you the problem of having to break up with them down the road so they weeded themselves out for you.
Using that analogy, it works in many ways with our business associations. I look at an interview as a sales call. If I am rejected, a sense of regret, a cold shoulder, I look at it as someone or a company I didn't want to associated with. If I approach someone to talk and if they turn away or has that attitude, well I can be diplomatic and friendly, but I don't have to do anything with them. If it's an association at work, l have to work with them not sleep with them. So I take the approach here is the information, I'm available to help, but if you don't want the help then it's their problem. Thick skin goes along way in business. I’m one that has to take control over that. I know myself and what I need to do under most circumstances.
Not everyone has the same personalities nor will all personalities click. Remember there are types A's and Type B's. Some need attention; some could care less about attention. Learn the personality traits and you might have whatever the problem is licked.
Also remember when you were a kid and you stood on stage in a play how hard it was to perform because mentally you knew 100 people was watching. Really, it's a mind over matter. That is why the bright light above and directly in front of you was there to blind you from those 100 people watching you. Now just smile and imagine no one is watching.
If you stop for a minute and realize what the purpose is you are doing whatever and block out what it is that bothers you, typically you can overcome many fears. Learn to block. It is like watching a football game; when the wife asks you to come empty the trash do you ever hear her? You do, but psychologically you don't because you've trained yourself to watch the game and nothing will interfere.
On a last note, despite what the fear is, performance, achievements, criticism, whatever, you do learn and maybe this is where you learn it as you get older since we’re always wanting to impress someone in our younger years. Don’t get me wrong we all even older people want to impress our boss but we take it with a grain of salt. As long as you give it your very best, you have done everything you possibly can within your power, stand-up and take note to yourself every time you stand in front of the mirror and say, I did my best, I’m proud of what I did and quit worrying what others say or think about you. You have to be happy with you. If you’re happy, the insecurities will eventually pass with time as you become more adept at being successful and when you do fall, pick yourself up, and learn from your mistakes knowing you know where the roadblock is and how to get around it.
In addition, one thing I’ve always carried with me from childhood that never gets old no matter how old you are is the ole saying of the little train that could…. The little train creeping up the hill thinking there is no way I can pull this load up that hill like the big trains can without slipping and going backwards… Keep saying to yourself I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, and eventually the little train started saying I know I can, I know I can, and when it’s all said and done you’ll stand straight and say to yourself I did it!
Using that analogy, it works in many ways with our business associations. I look at an interview as a sales call. If I am rejected, a sense of regret, a cold shoulder, I look at it as someone or a company I didn't want to associated with. If I approach someone to talk and if they turn away or has that attitude, well I can be diplomatic and friendly, but I don't have to do anything with them. If it's an association at work, l have to work with them not sleep with them. So I take the approach here is the information, I'm available to help, but if you don't want the help then it's their problem. Thick skin goes along way in business. I’m one that has to take control over that. I know myself and what I need to do under most circumstances.
Not everyone has the same personalities nor will all personalities click. Remember there are types A's and Type B's. Some need attention; some could care less about attention. Learn the personality traits and you might have whatever the problem is licked.
Also remember when you were a kid and you stood on stage in a play how hard it was to perform because mentally you knew 100 people was watching. Really, it's a mind over matter. That is why the bright light above and directly in front of you was there to blind you from those 100 people watching you. Now just smile and imagine no one is watching.
If you stop for a minute and realize what the purpose is you are doing whatever and block out what it is that bothers you, typically you can overcome many fears. Learn to block. It is like watching a football game; when the wife asks you to come empty the trash do you ever hear her? You do, but psychologically you don't because you've trained yourself to watch the game and nothing will interfere.
On a last note, despite what the fear is, performance, achievements, criticism, whatever, you do learn and maybe this is where you learn it as you get older since we’re always wanting to impress someone in our younger years. Don’t get me wrong we all even older people want to impress our boss but we take it with a grain of salt. As long as you give it your very best, you have done everything you possibly can within your power, stand-up and take note to yourself every time you stand in front of the mirror and say, I did my best, I’m proud of what I did and quit worrying what others say or think about you. You have to be happy with you. If you’re happy, the insecurities will eventually pass with time as you become more adept at being successful and when you do fall, pick yourself up, and learn from your mistakes knowing you know where the roadblock is and how to get around it.
In addition, one thing I’ve always carried with me from childhood that never gets old no matter how old you are is the ole saying of the little train that could…. The little train creeping up the hill thinking there is no way I can pull this load up that hill like the big trains can without slipping and going backwards… Keep saying to yourself I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, and eventually the little train started saying I know I can, I know I can, and when it’s all said and done you’ll stand straight and say to yourself I did it!
How Do You Deal with Inconsistent Bosses
First, don't take it personal. Secondly, develop a tough exterior (thick skin).Next, think what if this was a client, how would I respond? Would I kick him/her to the side because they're inconsistent, because they're a hothead, because they have no steering, disorganized? No, you work around their needs. They give you a need they have and you learn to work around the differences. You can say fire the company, however the grass is not always going to be greener at the next one, it might be even worse.
Not saying you have to be a yes person, and not saying you have to be your boss’s shadow where they obtain all the credit from your ideas to help build their career, but typically if you make it sound like their response, or idea, or whatever, your chances of survival will be a lot more successful.
It's tough to deal with some personalities. You cannot run from everyone who clashes with your personality. And on the other hand we say we're dealing with an inconsistent boss, do we know that the boss doesn't think he's dealing with an inconsistent employee based on his aspect of what is taking place?
I don't believe people need to be mistreated in words or otherwise. At that point if that's the case you need to sit and speak with that person, always with diplomacy. Sometimes they really don't know the way they're coming across and in a lot of cases based on their routine they might not even know they’re being inconsistent. What they think is normal behavior, may in your eyes be inconsistent behavior. A person needs to view all the entities involved not just what makes them happy or what they perceive to be inconsistent.
If problems persist and you cannot cope some thoughts that may help are as follows. In summary of ideas offer by Gill Corkindale who is an executive coach and writer based in London, who focuses on global management and leadership she offers,
Try to make the relationship more professional. Let your boss know that you have deadlines and appointments to keep.
Be aware of your boss's moods but try not to be drawn in and avoid talking about their personal problems — change the subject.
Try to coach your boss into becoming more organized: ask to see their schedule, goals, and objectives and work together to plan things more effectively.
Don't collude with your boss by picking up the pieces and covering for him/her — don't always agree to stay late if there is a crisis.
Ask your boss for feedback on how you are performing and request opportunities to present your work in front of senior managers.
Build up your network in the organization — meet people for lunch, or drop by to ask how they are getting on. Let them know what you are doing and how you can help them. Ensure that they see you regularly and apart from your boss.
Think about your next career move and whom you need to approach to find out about other opportunities.
Recognize that you and your boss depend on each other but know the limits of that interdependence and when it is affecting you adversely. Start defining yourself clearly to your colleagues and stakeholders.
Make sure that you leave the office early at least once a week and don't be available for work or personal calls at the weekend
Focus on people and activities outside work that boost your confidence and make you feel better about yourself.
Remind yourself that if you don't act on the above, you will continue to fade away in the shadow of your demanding boss.
End.
Many bosses get involved in the adeptness of their job. A lot of bosses in many cases don’t realize how their behavior is affecting their sub-ordinates. Once you’ve approached and understand what issues you have and have done everything within your power to take care of yourself, and then if the problem persists consider the above thoughts. If then the boss is not receptive to your assistance it might be time to consider your options. But to automatically assume that you have inconsistencies is not fair for either party. One must consider if there are other options that you can turn to, or in fact could it be the particular task or tasks what’s creating the problems.
Stress, pressures from higher ups, demands, and timelines can play a part in many aspects of inconsistencies. Maybe the boss does realize but being human may not have time or the thought to ask for help for them self. Remember bosses are supposed to be inhuman and have all the answers. But really shouldn’t they be considered an employee to the circumstances and given just as much latitude to change as anyone with a bad habit. Consider checking all avenues before throwing in the towel, your boss just might be quite appreciative of the actions you’ve chosen to take.
http://blogs.hbr.org/corkindale/2010/04/stepping_out_of_your_boss_shad.html
Not saying you have to be a yes person, and not saying you have to be your boss’s shadow where they obtain all the credit from your ideas to help build their career, but typically if you make it sound like their response, or idea, or whatever, your chances of survival will be a lot more successful.
It's tough to deal with some personalities. You cannot run from everyone who clashes with your personality. And on the other hand we say we're dealing with an inconsistent boss, do we know that the boss doesn't think he's dealing with an inconsistent employee based on his aspect of what is taking place?
I don't believe people need to be mistreated in words or otherwise. At that point if that's the case you need to sit and speak with that person, always with diplomacy. Sometimes they really don't know the way they're coming across and in a lot of cases based on their routine they might not even know they’re being inconsistent. What they think is normal behavior, may in your eyes be inconsistent behavior. A person needs to view all the entities involved not just what makes them happy or what they perceive to be inconsistent.
If problems persist and you cannot cope some thoughts that may help are as follows. In summary of ideas offer by Gill Corkindale who is an executive coach and writer based in London, who focuses on global management and leadership she offers,
Try to make the relationship more professional. Let your boss know that you have deadlines and appointments to keep.
Be aware of your boss's moods but try not to be drawn in and avoid talking about their personal problems — change the subject.
Try to coach your boss into becoming more organized: ask to see their schedule, goals, and objectives and work together to plan things more effectively.
Don't collude with your boss by picking up the pieces and covering for him/her — don't always agree to stay late if there is a crisis.
Ask your boss for feedback on how you are performing and request opportunities to present your work in front of senior managers.
Build up your network in the organization — meet people for lunch, or drop by to ask how they are getting on. Let them know what you are doing and how you can help them. Ensure that they see you regularly and apart from your boss.
Think about your next career move and whom you need to approach to find out about other opportunities.
Recognize that you and your boss depend on each other but know the limits of that interdependence and when it is affecting you adversely. Start defining yourself clearly to your colleagues and stakeholders.
Make sure that you leave the office early at least once a week and don't be available for work or personal calls at the weekend
Focus on people and activities outside work that boost your confidence and make you feel better about yourself.
Remind yourself that if you don't act on the above, you will continue to fade away in the shadow of your demanding boss.
End.
Many bosses get involved in the adeptness of their job. A lot of bosses in many cases don’t realize how their behavior is affecting their sub-ordinates. Once you’ve approached and understand what issues you have and have done everything within your power to take care of yourself, and then if the problem persists consider the above thoughts. If then the boss is not receptive to your assistance it might be time to consider your options. But to automatically assume that you have inconsistencies is not fair for either party. One must consider if there are other options that you can turn to, or in fact could it be the particular task or tasks what’s creating the problems.
Stress, pressures from higher ups, demands, and timelines can play a part in many aspects of inconsistencies. Maybe the boss does realize but being human may not have time or the thought to ask for help for them self. Remember bosses are supposed to be inhuman and have all the answers. But really shouldn’t they be considered an employee to the circumstances and given just as much latitude to change as anyone with a bad habit. Consider checking all avenues before throwing in the towel, your boss just might be quite appreciative of the actions you’ve chosen to take.
http://blogs.hbr.org/corkindale/2010/04/stepping_out_of_your_boss_shad.html
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