Reinke Faces Life

… … you are missing a big opportunity for “viral communication”.

Plaxo, the address book synchronization service that I like, allows you to put lots of “stuff” in it. I wish I had a nickel for every turkey that doesn’t have their record fully filled out. I recommend using their mini-bulletin board as an ongoing job search update. It replicates to EVERYONE that has your card. What better advertising would you want? It’s viral. It flies below the radar. And, your contacts will see it if they look at the “update stream”. So, I tell “my” turkeys that they should load the darn things up with anything positive that they can say. It costs NOTHING!

Yet people don’t do it.

Why?

http://www.jobster.com/

Can’t give you too much info about it except it supports groups. There’s a Jasper Group with two people there.

Employment Contract

Guaranteed Severance

Stock Options/Equity

Performance Bonus

Sign-On Bonus

Guaranteed First-Year Bonus

http://www.jibberjobber.com

DISCLAIMER ON

I don’t pretend to be a pro writer, tester, or reviewer. Nor do I play one on tv. I’m just a Big Turkey that has been in quite a few moccasins both in, out, and on the slippery slope into and out of transition. I have a real job (currently) and this just represents a fast roll thru the features.

DISCLAIMER OFF

Jibber Jobber (http://www.jibberjobber.com) notes:

(01) It’s not free. So already I don’t like it. I’m an Open Source kinda guy where you pay for support or extra services. As a general rule, because seekers are easily taken advantage of, I tell my baby turkeys NEVER to pay for anything. At least, until they are very sure of the value.

(02) It uses paypal which I don’t like, don’t trust, and am leery of.

(03) It’s bait and switch in that it gives you the full service and then downgrades you.

I don’t mean “bait n switch” like a used car dealer. I mean baitnswitch like when stuff reverts after a free trial. I really don’t like that type of marketing. Unless the time frame is long enough to get an accurate feel for the service. 14 days is probably too short. Services are like old shoes. They have to get broken in before one can decide they are if they are right for you. GOTOMYPC is my example of a good timeframes; XDRIVE is one of my bad ones. Putting in all your data represents a substantive effort in time and attention. I’d want to be REAL sure it wasn’t wasted.

And that’s in the first five minutes.

(04) Import contact not as robust as Outlook. No integration with Outlook.

(05) Didn’t pick up email on first try. Got it on the second.

(06) No integration to email like ACT or GoldMine.

(07) Isolation from other users. Unlike LinkedIn. Doesn’t link you automagically with people you know. If I join and you have my email, it should suggest a “vulcan mind meld”.

(08) Both Articles and Links is thin. Probably too soon to yell about that.

(09) No FAQ

(10) No ez feed back, like wordpress

(11) “Rat out friends to get free weeks” but no link to invite.

(12) No search to find JibberJobber-ees who are already registered. Link LinkedIn search.

(13) It’s web based, but does seem to allow you to extract your data. And, import it. I didn’t push it my 10k of alumni file to see if it gorked. (I’m a sport.)

(14) I like software that has thin and fat attributes. My favorite example of the model is WORDPRESS blog and BLOGDESK. (I have some picky points) But as an example of fat – thin or thin – fat client server software where you can work off line or on line or from a browser, it’s my favorite example of how I like my interoperability — yes! (Wonder if MSFT is listening?)

(15) No RSS type features a la what FACEBOOK was excoriated for doing. (I though it was good idea.)

(16) No recognition / integration of Social Networking sites (i.e., LinkedIn, MySpace).

(17) No recognition / integration of VOIP (i.e., Skype, Gizmo, YIMwVoice).

(18) No recognition / integration of IMs (i.e., YIM, MSM, ICQ, AOLIM).

(19) It implements a non-customizable sales funnel. Which is better than no funnel, like Outlook. But, not as good as the equivalent Act and others of that ilk.

(99) I did like the free offer to vets. My nephew-in-law works for the VA and probably will introduce a bunch of “freeloaders” to them. He was in Iraq#1 and I am VietNam era vet. We both have a very parochial feelings for the grunts coming back. (Why can’t we send politicians instead? We seem to have an oversupply of them.)

All in all I’m positively hopeful for the first entry in a new genre of software … the job pim.

P.S.: I still want a resume XML engine that can do “input” for me.

On LinkedIn say that you use search to find someone you know, finding them, you can then tap “I know so and so”. It presents you with the standard canned message and a blank for their email address. Plug in a valid email address for that someone and it will issue the invite. I’ve done it and had it done to me.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/092706-yourtake-indiana.html?page=1

Q&A: How Indiana cleaned up its big IT mess
CTO says: “The vendors were running wild.”
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 09/27/06

In 18 months, the state of Indiana has gone from disarray to discipline in its IT infrastructure. Brought in by Governor Mitch Daniels, an experienced IT management team has cut 230 jobs, consolidated hardware and services, renegotiated contracts and saved the state $25 million in annual costs. Network World Senior Editor Carolyn Duffy Marsan interviewed Gerry Weaver, CTO of Indiana’s Office of Technology, about how he pulled off this remarkable turnaround.

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What were the biggest challenges you faced in terms of changing the way Indiana acquires and manages its IT infrastructure?

Getting all the other agencies to understand what was going to happen. We had a few hard meetings with agency IT directors. There were a couple that didn’t buy into our plan and, quite frankly, they’re gone.

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It would seem that when change happens, it’s in one’s own best interest to get on board with the new guy’s program. It’s either that or be “roadkill” in front of the steam roller. Or, be a displaced outplaced outsourced “turkey” down at the “turkey farm” protesting you was robbed, misunderstood, or misappraised. As we used to tell new turkeys arriving a the Delta Beta Mu turkey farm, “you’re here. that prima facie evidence that you’re here for a reason.”.

http://www.enewsbuilder.net/theayersgroup/e_article000541048.cfm?x=b11,0,w

http://www.enewsbuilder.net/theayersgroup/e_article000649698.cfm?x=b8b45Nl,b55f1D3v

The Age-Advantaged Workforce
A Different Job Strategy
by Terry Ebert

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“The leading edge of the baby boom still has the old hiring mentality, that age is a negative rather than an advantage, ” says Ayers’ Senior Vice President Doug O’Connor, CFP. “It usually comes out at our first meeting with a 55+ candidate: ‘Will I ever be able to find a job again?’ As we work with these candidates on positioning, they begin to recognize the depth of the resources they’ve accumulated over the years.”

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Demand a contract and take a full measure of “value retained”!

http://execunet.blogspot.com/2006/10/breaking-news-from-about-time.html

Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Breaking News From The About Time Department

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Over the same period of time as we have talked with recruiters about their feelings about candidates and shared the candidate’s feelings with them, with few exceptions, their responses range from “Yeah, I know and I don’t blame them” to “If I had the time I would try to do something about it, but I just don’t” to “tell ’em to grow up, my obligation is to the client.”

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Well, it (a change in recruiter behavior) would be an interesting “climate change”.

Some might know that I keep a “special list” for those that don’t play well with others. I always urge, “don’t get mad; get even!” as a response. Maybe it’s my mutli-decade experience of being “in”, “out”, uncermoniously tossed on my ear once, and treated “interestingly” over many “transitions”, but I’ll bet on the continuation of bad manners.

I think it is MOST amusing when a hunter, who slighted me two decades ago, has the chutzpa to yell when I won’t “work with him”. He was literally speechless when I described our last interaction for him. (I’m not only as hefty as an elephant, but I have a “trunk” of text files that are totally indexed by Google Desktop.) Perhaps, if more people refuse to be treated badly, we can collectively like a guild enforce a better standard of conduct.

As we come into the “gray-if-not working-it’s-retirement/vacation” (i.e., retirees who work for “fun”, not money) of the workforce, I think getting and keeping talent will be harder and more competitive. I think that there may even a cyclical rotation back to the old days of manners out of necessity. Further, as talent becomes more valuable, the value equation may shift. Envision a hunter who knows that seeker, with a highly desired skill, who might be “dislodged”, would then “broker” that knowledge to “thirsty” organizations. It might for by money, pride, or opportunity. No one will care why; it’ll just be about getting the talent on the team. Then you’ll see the climate change.

There is another possible reaction to being treated badly, and that is when seekers stop seeking the “corporate job”, and become one man consulting shops. Then, the hunters will starve. And, the corporations will be paying a lot more for skilled help. It really rebalances the playing field between those that do (need) and those that manage (get big bucks). Having been introduced to McKay’s 66 in my “self-improvement” phase, I’m ready to “sell” how this process will match supply and demand. It will take completely new paradigms, infrastructure, hardware, and software.

If that happens there will be lots of surplus hunters, corporate HR types, and “executives”. A ton of much happier and better compensated workers productively employed with a lot less downtime and inefficient “interviewing”.

While I’d rather see more surplus lawyers and politicians, it will be interesting times.

Since I have loaded my Outlook address book into LinkedIn, I have turned to being more selective of the invitations I will consider. It might be that LinkedIn isn’t “valuable”. Any way, if you want to send me an invite, then you have to let me know you’re doing it. I’ll put you in my LinkedIn Other folder and it will allow you to send an invite. I’m down to my last 500 invites so I’m saving them. :-)

http://careerandleadership.com/

***Begin Quote***

In this issues, we are very pleased to include an article submitted by Dr. David Salter who brings a thoughtful and new perspective about information technology and education. Networking expert Russ Kovar writes about the importance of networking in his article “People Know People”. Vikram Rajan makes another appearance with his article about press releases in our Leadership section. Robin Cook’s piece explains the nine shared characteristics of innovative organizations in the Work Life section. Also in the Work Life section is a compelling article about getting organized by Carla Thorpe. Writer Megan Byrd has contributed another insightful Book Review.

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Re: getting organized

My Mom used to say ” A place for everything; everything in its place”. That’s why I plog. Get all my thoughts in one place. ;-)

An employed-eee is merely a consultant with restricted choice of where and on what they will work on tomorrow.

Posted by: “George”
Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:34 am (PST)

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I don’t know about other users, but I am finding diminishing returns
on LinkedIn.

I have used it for over a year for networking and business development
as a consultant and executive coach. But more and more I am getting
stuff from recruiters looking for me to do their job for them.

Whats the next big thing?

Has LinkedIn outlived its usefulness?

What other networking and business development tools are people using now?

There also seem to be more executives who – it appears – have someone
put their profile in LinkedIn – but never use the tool or respond to
invitations. Whats the point of that? Another sign of its diminishing
value.

George F Franks III
Franks Consulting Group
Web site: http://franksconsultinggroup.com
E-zine: http://careerandleadership.com

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This is an interesting observation.

For each person that I link to, after two weeks, I send them a chatty little email. So far I have ZERO responses.

So LinkedIn isn’t networking. And, it may be of ZERO use other than a glorified yellow pages of people.

Hmmm!?!

http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2006/09/marketing-lessons-learned-from-dating_30.html

Saturday, September 30, 2006
Marketing lessons learned from the dating world

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5) After a long night of striking out with every girl we approached, my friend Aaron decided to call it quits. “No, we’re not giving up. Come on, let’s try something else,” I said. We went onto the floor all by ourselves and started dancing like complete idiots who didn’t have a care in the world. (And at this point, we really didn’t.) Before we knew it, girls were actually coming up to US and saying hello. A few hours later we ended up at a 24 hour diner on an impromtu double date. One of the girls is still a good friend of mine today!

LESSONS LEARNED: don’t sell, enable people to buy; don’t market, position yourself

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I liked this one. Struck me as a job seekers guideline.

Lars Hinrichs
Open Business Club GmbH, openBC, Xing openBC to become XING 28/09/2006, 3:42 pm

Dear member,

I would like to personally inform you about major changes to the openBC brand in the near future. The openBC platform will be re-launched by the end of the year with a new design and a new brand name:

XING

Why XING?
Our community has evolved immensely since it was first formed and has expanded well beyond the realms of a “Business Club”. Whilst entrepreneurs and business people still make up a valuable and valued part of the network, they have been joined by a diverse spectrum of professionals from all industries and backgrounds – from scientists and creatives through to academics.

Members also network on the platform in 16 languages, so we needed a brand image that carries meaning in different cultures around the globe. XING meets this requirement. The name XING is cosmopolitan, innovative and unique – all qualities that reflect our community.

What will change on the platform?
The Website has been re-designed with maximum user-friendliness in mind, making it simpler for you to navigate and use the interface. And I can assure you: All of your openBC personal data will remain secure and unaltered, and all the networking features you have come to value on openBC will be part of XING – with many new features ahead!

The XING Website will be launched in the fourth quarter. You can already visit www.xing.com to gain an impression of the new brand and preview the new, improved interface.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for being a part of the community and wish you continued success and enjoyment from your network on XING.

Best Wishes,

Lars Hinrichs
Founder and CEO, Open Business Club GmbH

Rhonda Britten: ‘I never received a call from NBC or Bunim-Murray regarding its fate’ – TV.com Tracking

http://www.fearlessliving.org/blog/rhonda

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I know its been confusing for so many folks, including me, when it comes to the question: Is Starting Over coming back for a fourth season? The answer is no.

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Guess she didn’t get my memo about the rules changing. Nice to see that it can happen to everyone. And, even a trained psych can have feelings about it.

I always needled my wife for watching “whiney womyn”. In actuality, I thought some of the shows were really good. “Fight Fair”, self-sabotage, and self-forgiveness were good life lessons.

But, like anything that might have redeeming value, that just might possibly be a Quadrant One activity, that might actually be usefully entertaining, had to be driven out of the “vast wasteland”.

Jobseekers can empathize with her plight. And, anyone who didn’t read the memo about the rules changing, should.

STRATEGY: Attention Kmart shoppers the rules of the job game have changed …

http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/articles/2006/09/17/visions_of_the_golden_years_dim_as_pension_promises_fade/?page=full

Anyone, who doesn’t understand that the rule of the gasme have changed, should read this.

No, print it, and nail it to your bathroom mirror. Seven years of bad luck is the least of your worries!

Don’t think that the “corporate management” will do ANYTHING but loot your beloved enterprise. Cast off your illusions. It’s a cold cruel world out there.

Pension? Just plan on possibly getting something from the Pension Guarantee Fund. (Maybe!) Ask the Delta pilots how they feel.

Life-time employment? Ask the Ford blue collar workers.

Benefits? Maybe, as long as they don’t cost too much. Retirees shoudl get ready for the Eskimo iceberg voyage.

Action plan:

(1) Trust no one! What you have in your pocket is yours. Anything else has a tinge of “maybe” attached to it.

(2) Develop skills. Create a portfolio of what you can offer another employer or the marketplace. That has value!

(3) Develop alternate revenue streams. Part-time job, side business, investment protfolio, rental properties, ebay biz, something, anything.

(4) Develop awareness. There is no rescue team coming to help. Don’t expect mercy becasue there isn’t any. Pull up your big boy pants and get ready for trouble.

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http://execunet.blogspot.com/2005/11/dont-miss-next-strategic-turn_28.html

Dave talks about “personal branding” … …

… … but this fellow takes it to an extreme.

http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2005/11/maybe-im-taking-this-whole-personal.html

;-)

http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2006/09/lessons-learned-from-job-that-sucked.html

hellomynameisscott

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Unique Closers
I’m not talking about closing the sale. I’m talking about the last thing you say to a customer in your opening conversation that reminds them who you are and that you’d be happy to help. So, instead of saying, “I’m Scott if you have any questions,” or “Here’s my card if you need me,” I’d say:

• “If you need anything, I’ll be over by the donuts.”

• “Well, I’m Scott. If you have an questions, I’ll be in the back corner sleeping on the $3000 Italian Leather Sofa.” (SIDE NOTE: one out of every five customers then asked me, “Ooh! Can we see that sofa?”)

• “I’ll let you guys go have fun. If you need me, I’m the only salesman under 50.”

LET ME ASK YA THIS: What’s your unique closer(s)?
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You readers, go have fun; I’ll be pblogging on something over in tech, if you have any questions!

http://www.buildyournetworks.com/

Value as yet unknown. TBI (To be investigated) WTP (When Time Permits)

FROM: The LinkedIn Innovators Yahoo Group
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkedInnovators/

Recruiter Networking Pushing the Limits…….
Posted by: “tamara719”
Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:52 pm (PST)
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Hello All

My name is Tamara. I am a recruiter based out of the Dallas/Ft.Worth
area.

I am enjoying my membership on Linked-in. I have found old friends,
business associates and made many new friends and contacts. I am
thankful for this resource.

However, I am becoming perturbed about Recruiters contacting
Recruiters for “referrals.” I am more then willing to aid a fellow
recruiter in a search for financial compensation. I do not work for
free (none of us do), and I will not fill positions without
consideration. I have been contacted with lures such as “if you help
me I’ll give you access to my vast network?”

Others have answered me in shock as if I had asked for something out
of this realm of existence. I have posted on my profile that I do
this for a living, having done so for over thirteen years now, and
that I am paid only if I place the candidate; or work on a retained
basis. And, I might add that in-house recruiters should not seek aid
from recruiters without compensation. If you want to utilize my
firm’s services please do so, with a signed agreement.

I am not striving to sound harsh or difficult to get along with.
However, I am being overwhelmed with requests for “who you know” or
“Can you recommend somebody for this role?” Yes, I probably can
however unless I know that you, the recruiter, will compensate me then
I will continue to work on my own openings for my own clients.

This is the nature of business. This is why all of us on Linked-in
are in business in one facet or another. To make a living; to pay our
bills, and to enjoy a certain quality of life.

Thus, I would like to be removed from the blasts asking for referrals.
Unless you intend to compensate me for my effort, which means to me:
a) Searching for a passive candidate
b) Qualifying them
c) Verifying their degree(s)
d) Checking previous employment
f) Checking three professional references

I will have to be compensated.

I have been meaning to write this a long time, and after opening
Linked-in today, I said that’s it, it is long over due for me to get
my message out to all concerned.

I love what I do. How many people in recruiting can say that? How
many people can say that about their current positions? Thus, nothing
would make me prouder or happier then to truly Link-in with other
recruiters as business partners. We can partner together to achieve
an ends to a means. I see everything right about this suggestion.

Tamara
President/Founder
Endeavor Group
Ft. Worth, TX

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HERE’S MY RESPONSE

>My name is Tamara. I am a recruiter based out of the Dallas/Ft.Worth

Hello, Tamara. Let me see if I can “react” to what you are saying.

>However, I am becoming perturbed about Recruiters contacting

I don’t think that LinkedIn was created for recruiters to earn money. I could be mistaken, but I thought it was about “networking”. It’s an evolving understanding, but it was to form voluntary connections between people for their mutual benefit.

>I will not fill positions without consideration

I understand that everyone has to make a buck. AND, I have run into some “interesting” tactics by recruiters to do that. But, if you don’t want to “help” then just say so.

>If you want to utilize my firm’s services please do so, with a signed agreement.

And, if you want to use the services of the average joe who’s just here to help out, please feel free to do so with a signed agreement with for example ME! You don’t get to have it both ways. Either it’s help freely offered and freely given or it’s a glorified meat market. And how do I get my “cut”?

>I am not striving to sound harsh or difficult to get along with.

Ahh, but you are. You are trying to form a business model in basically what is “supposedly” a free exchange of contact information.

Some of the more “sleezy” things I have found recruiters doing are:

(1) “taking hostages” — basically creating a profile for some one they are representing and not permitting any contact except for a fee. I found a fellow I knew in College, wanted to reconnect, and the recruiter refused unless I paid him. A plague on his house.

(2) “creating strawmen” — creating a profile for a candidate they were representing and attempting to leverage an agreement out of another recruiter to source him.

I think that both these are “immoral tactics”.

Bottom line: IMHO LinkedIn grew because of average shmoes like me wanted to bypass recruiters of all types — the corporate hr types and the retained / contingency search — and just connect on their own.

An invasion of recruiters, sensing a good thing, and “joined”. Now they are kludging up the works trying to retain value for themselves without concern to its impact on the resource. It’s akin to the tragedy of the commons argument.

>I will have to be compensated.

Me too. Don’t ask for what you are not prepared to give. It’s like the Creative Commons discussion. Share and share alike OR else.

>nothing would make me prouder or happier then to truly Link-in with other
>recruiters as business partners. We can partner together to achieve

Sure, because you are making money.

I think it is disingenuous to say on the one hand “share your information with me” under a certain set of engagement rules and then not to follow thru with your obligation.

>I see everything right about this suggestion.

I see it differently. LinkedIn asks me to join, share, and urge others to do the same. You want to join, take, but not share unless you get a cut.

Sorry, but I think that’s wrong.

Fjohn

Here’s some free eddykaytion from Office Depot
No credit, but no cost.
And, you might even learn something, make a contact, or at the very least be able to make a “legend” (aka somehting you can use in your jobsearch) out of it.

***

http://email.officedepot.com/P/v3/Microsite.asp?E=401;214201;188344728;13;02&R=T1_ONL&A=1007

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Building Your Sales by Closing More Sales
Featuring Mark Hunter
September 12, 2006 4-5 PM EDT

Mark Hunter
“The Sales Hunter”
Topics Include:
• Learn the missing elements in what it takes to dramatically increase your closing skills
• How do you deal with the prospect who is hesitant to make a decision?
• How do you know when it’s right to stop calling on what you thought was a perfect prospect?

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Easy to Understand Financial Concepts for Small Business
Featuring Stan Herman
September 19, 2006 4-5 PM EDT

Stan Herman
Certified Business Coach
Topics Include:
• Understand the natural growth rate of your business
• Learn who are really your best customers
• See what impact discounts have on your business

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Search Engine Secrets – How To Be In The Top 10!
Featuring Kevin Dean
September 26, 2006 4-5 PM EDT

Kevin Dean
Certified Internet Marketing Consultant
Topics Include:
• Discover all of the places you can be found
• What are the best keywords to use?
• Learn what search engines consider most important about your site

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Negotiate Your Way to Success
Featuring Greg Williams
October 3, 2006 4-5 PM EDT

Greg Williams
“The Master Negotiator”
Topics Include:
• Participants will become knowledgeable of negotiation tactics and learn how to present counter offers that strengthen their position
• Participants will be able to negotiate better deals in their personal and business lives
• Participants will make, save and earn more money, in their lifetime

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http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyLinkedinPowerForum/

It’s a Yahoo Group for doing things with LinkedIn that the operators of LinkedIn don’t, can’t, or won’t provide. I’, investigating.

http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/get_a_life_blog/2006/08/requesting_quic.html

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Chapter Two: Why corporations today cannot provide job security, no matter how hard they try
Anyone who thinks that taking a job as a corporate employee today is more stable than generating their own income is in for a rude awakening. Corporate jobs can be tremendous training grounds for learning about business and management, as well as providing temporary income streams. But if you look for a long-term, till-retirement-do-us-part work relationship, you are in for intense heartbreak. This chapter describes what has made corporations constitutionally unstable (such as radically changing marketing conditions, outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions, frequent top management changes and pressure from globalization). I will include tips for getting the most from your corporate experience while you are still there (some from my “Open Letter to Employees”).

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As I have ranted before, the “rules” have changed on us. We’ve gone thru several iterations of them. But the 50’s illusion of going to work for a big company, like AT&T as I did in the late sixties, working for fifty years and getting lifetime security (the rules were spelled out: don’t be drunk, don’t dip you pen in company ink, and don’t steal) with a pension and financial security at the end of the yellow brick road, are OVER! That worked for my Mom; it will NOT work for us!

ATTENTION KMART SHOPPERS the rules have changed! (There. Now you’ve all been told.)

New rules:

(1) You’re only as secure as the last paycheck that cleared!

(2) You’re only value is what you are PERCEIVED to produce! (Note: Not what you actually produce; that’s irrelevant.)

(3) You better save your pennies because at the end of the road that’s all you’ll have. (IRA, 401k, tbills, etfs)

(4) The rules, even these rules, are subject to change without notice, without logic, and on a whim. (Pay careful attention to deduce these new rules!)

(5) Old and gray, although smart and wise, is not respected, valued, or employable.

(6) Having multiple revenue streams, (i.e., a white collar job, a blue collar skill, rental properties, an ebay business, an investment portfolio, and some “mad” money), means that the loss of one stream will not materially effect your happiness. (Or your marriage, which is in case you haven’t realized it, your most important asset!)

[Feel free to add your own. I’d be interested to learn what you add! Please tell me I can be a little dense sometimes.]

FJohn
The Big Turkey
looking for “rules” in all the wrong places

I had an interesting experience. In doing my alumni searches, I found a blog that was from an incoming student. They were ranting about something or other. Since I know a lot of people at the place, I offered to help. The person was mortified at what they had written. I told them it was no big deal but I’m not sure they believed me.

Lesson Learnd: Be careful what you post. Some will read it.

http://changethis.com/25.01.PolkasPyro

25.01
POLKAS, PYROTECHNICS and POINT Ds: Pieces and parts of Seth Godin’s new book, small is the new big.
by Seth Godin
Here’s just a sip from Seth Godin’s latest book, small is the new big, a plentiful well of inspiration for your business and you.
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The end result is that it’s essentially impossible to become successful or well-off doing a job that is described or measured by someone else.

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WOW! What a slap in the face. It means thems that follows the “old rules” or an old paradigm will be like that Coyote chasing the Road Runner. This is the gauntlet that challenges all the Dilberts to escape.

I’m not even sure I want to survive in this Brave New World?