JOBSEARCH: Always frame problems

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

interbiznet presents The Bugler
May 15, 2007

 

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Gurutosis

The three most powerful words anyone can use are “I don’t know.” In an instant, the playing field gets leveled and the problem can be addressed without agenda. Center stage attention shifts and leaves an opening for the best local expertise to emerge. The very essence of leadership is knowing what to do when you don’t know.

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A well said piece of advice for seekers being interviewed. When candidates I was interviewing tried to bluff their way thru on a point, I’d hit the ‘eject button”.

No one knows everything, not even me!

It’s what you do when you can or can’t see the boundary. It’s how you test if there’s a hidden boundary there. It’s about your system for protecting against runaways, under runs, and stoppages.

It’s realizing that, you don’t know, what you don’t know.

The toughest boss I ever had used to asks for results, and then would ask how he was supposed to know that the results were true. At the time, I didn’t understand. But what he was asking was not just the answer to a problem, but to see the work that got to the answer. He wanted evidence and confidence. Just like in school.

So in your interview prep, be sure you have a legend (i.e., an elevator speech about something that you can pop out when needed) that presents a situation where either you couldn’t know the answer or you were wrong. In your legend, show how you always set up a “frame” so that you can never spin endless away. Visualize the spaceman’s wrench spinning off into deep space, until it reaches the end of the tether rope, and gets reeled back in. That’s the frame. Your frame can be time (i.e., I set a kitchen time, worked on the problem for an hour, and then I asked for help), feedback (i.e., a Colleague always checks my project plan for over commitments because I like to please people), or milestones (if.eat., I always have a project plan for anything I promise that has many moving parts).

Always demonstrate your framing!

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MONEY: There is no retirement fairy.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north529.html

Debt: An Inescapable Concept
Part 2: Personal Debt
by Gary North

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There is no tooth fairy. There is no retirement fairy. There will be no streams of income for the vast majority of old Americans. There will probably be monthly checks. They will not buy much.

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Medical costs will destroy us. The unfunded promises of the Medicare and drug benefits will bankrupt the country. When the politicians make promises, they leave the bill for the future taxpayers to pick up the tab. When the bill comes due, it’ll be devastating.

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LIBERTY: Biometrics Social Security Cards

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/biometric

National ID: Biometrics Pinned to Social Security Cards
Ryan Singel Email 05.15.07 | 2:00 AM

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The Social Security card faces its first major upgrade in 70 years under two immigration-reform proposals slated for debate this week that would add biometric information to the card and finally complete its slow metamorphosis into a national ID.

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Great, then when the gooferment loses the data, we can have REAL identity theft. How long before you’ll be able to buy a “biometric national id”. Or the whole kit to go into business with on ebay? Can I get “one week” in the pool. If it’s such a great idea, why does it have to be “mandated”?

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JOBSEARCH: A new set of “rules” — adding the the Web-based biz!

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

http://www.prairietumbleweedfarm.com

ATTENTION KMART SHOPPERS!

I think the “rules” are changing again. If you’ve been down to my “turkey farm”, then you know that I think there have been four “rule changes”.

http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index_Page369.htm

Unlike that TV show “wife swap” — yeah I watch too much tv — there was NO rules change ceremony.

I wish I had a dime for every seeker who stops in for help that is working with the old pair of dimes.

<<You know paradigm. Way of thinking. Glass half-full half-empty. Your mental model. Your meme (i.e., mental gene).>>

I’ll still meet folks using the “gold watch” paradigm and wondering why they are getting screwed, broke, busted, disgusted, and killed in the employment marketplace. They believed the “barbara streisand” that their employer peddled until it was too late. They were a freshly axed turkey!

But, back to my point, about the “rules”.

I am sensing a new rule. As with most change, it is sneaking up on us. It’s actually adding to my “Three Part Harmony” description. A fourth item is being added.

The Web-based biz!

It is trivial for you to form a Nevada corporation. (I just did it for about $1200!) It is trivial for you to assemble a web-based store. (I’m in the process of doing it now for under $250) And, if this lady can sell tumbleweed, then surely you have something to sell. I think the key thing to notice is the available click at the top of the website that displays the site in Japanese!!

So, the model for success HAS officially changed! Henceforth and forever more, the model is “Four Tined Fork”. That is: (1) Ruthless financial management — get it, keep it, make it work; (2) White Collar job; (3) Blue Collar skill; and (4) one or more Web-based businesses.

Don’t say you didn’t get the memo. Here it is. A wake up call.

(Surely, if she can sell tumbleweed to the Japanese, you can do better!)

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JOBSEARCH: 29 per cent of all US jobs are be potentially offshorable

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=
BQABRED1US4NPQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/opinion/
2007/05/13/do1301.xml

http://tinyurl.com/32s4l2

 

New York – the new Venice?
By Niall Ferguson, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 13/05/2007

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Looking closely at which activities are most vulnerable as Asian competition ascends the value chain from manufacturing into services, Blinder estimates that “somewhere between 22 per cent and 29 per cent of all US jobs are or will be potentially offshorable within a decade or two”. That could be one in four jobs.

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Not a good omen for the future.

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TECH SERVICE: FEEDBLITZ missed three posts yesterday

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

ARGH.

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1933 2007-05-13 7:32:43 am
TECHNOLOGY: My 5 reasons to start a Blog
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/technology-my-5-reasons-to-start-a-blog/
http://tinyurl.com/25yavb

1929 2007-05-13 6:14:00 am
MONEY: Panama Has Thrived Without A Central Bank
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/money-panama-has-thrived-without-a-central-bank/
http://tinyurl.com/2kvhpt

1932 2007-05-13 6:07:36 am
LINKEDIN: My “granfalloon” won a prize in the recent “group hug” about LinkedIn
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/linkedin-my-granfalloon-won-a-prize-in-the-recent-group-hug-about-linkedin/
http://tinyurl.com/2cx3kn

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The guy form FEEDBLITZ support suspects it has to do with preloading content by playing with the time stamps.

(You DO know I have a real job right?)

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RANT: Off to jury duty

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The gooferment has enslaved me. I am commanded by force to serve it. It’s not enough that it makes me a partial slave by stealing my money via inflation, taxes, fees, and economic friction. It steals the most precious think I have … my time and attention. Argh!

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