http://steves.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/19/1772216.html
Steve Richards has posted a book review of Daniel H. Pink’s book “A Whole New Mind”.
It is truly stunning. I’m going to get the book based on this map. While I immediately disagree (I’m a basically disagreeable fellow), I can immediately see the value of a possible “pair-of-dimes” shift. All we really control is our own thinking.
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People don’t keep their update current. When I finish my current effort, I’ll have to do a stat. AND, a monthly keep in touch email. Hmmm.
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This piqued my interest. How about a “course” for turkeys?
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Submitted for the consideration of ALL my favorite turkeys. The ideas below apply to all of you. You are certainly entitled to be like my wife and tell me I am full of myself or Barabara Sriesand. Although, she can say it anyway she pleases and I HAVE to like it. (“Thank you, dear! May I have another deflating?”). You on the other hand have to be nicer to me, since I am “free”. ;-)
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Sorry for the delay, but I have been incredibly overwhelmed in the past few days. I try to meet a personal target of 24 hour response. Don’t believe everything that XYZXYZXYZ tells you. Especially ANYTHING to do with when I was in high school. I was much smarter, stronger, and nerdier then.
I will send you asap some of my canned stuff. Please take a look at it and see if you like what you see. I’m an “injineer” and I’m kinda blunt. Some people don’t like that. Further, I have been accused of giving “turkeys” whiplash from trying to get them up to speed with my frenetic pace. Some people don’t like that. I tend to pontificate, talk like I’m up on the proverbial Mount, I don’t mean to, and your situation is yours. Not everything I suggest, do you have to adopt as if it came down from the Intelligent Designer of the Universe. I tend to act like an authority figure in my advice. My wife constantly reminds me, when I am “out”, “if you’re so good why ain’t you in?”, and when I am “in”, “if you’re so good, why ain’t you rich?”. So if my head becomes too large, feel free to deflate it.
Having said all that, I’ll tell you that I “help” people for free. I always tell people if someone wants money from you as a seeker, then you have to very very carefully recognize you are being “sold” something. It may be good (like execunet) but most times it’s bad (10k for a career counseling). So I’m “free”. But you get what you pay for. I currently am assisting 8 seekers so bear in mind that I tend to “share” stuff with them as a group. Some people don’t like that. So if you have something you DON’T want shared, please make sure that is obvious.
So with that introduction, Lesson 1 is complete!
See, gotcha. I do tend to try to “teach” (I was an adjunct prof in comp sci for four years) or “pontificate” (I went to lots of years of Catholic school) or “lecture” (I have lots of fables and anecdotes). You job is to filter what is useful to you, grab that, and let all the rest sluice by.
Good Luck,
fjohn
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I was an IT exec and some IBM guys were pitching poop. So, I took their techie to lunch and explained from my pov what they should be trying to do. The guy went back to his salesman, and gave him “his” spin on it. Sales guy was skeptical. But, he mentioned it. My boss’s boss jumped on it. They made the sale; the techie guy was feted for his “insight”.
A decade later I was “out” looking to get “in” and who do I run into. The techie. I tell him I was looking.
Shazzam.
I was hired about two weeks later. Talk about “chicken coming home to roost”.
He told me on my first day that he was always impressed with how I related to people who couldn’t help me. I never realized I was doing anything special. I was just trying to help.
“It does come around full circle.”
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I would be happy to advance your candidacy in the Loyal Order of Turkeys just as soon as I find the Membership Director. ;-)
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Start a “University of Hard Knocks” alumni society for everyone you meet who is not degreed. Exchange how to overcome the perceived problem. You get the idea? It’s about connecting and turning what is perceived as a liability into a strength. Gates didn’t get a degree. He should be your “patron saint”. I used to tell AT&T-ers and USAF-ers to keep a careful list of all the classes they attended. I knew one fellow who used it to get advanced placement at a regular college. My special twist on it was to keep a brag book with certificates, papers, or “stuff” from the course. People are always impressed with “evidence”. With the recent trend to buy a degree, you may need that proof.
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Posted by reinkefj
Not a good omen. Must escalate the old defcon indicator to “passive”.
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj
My LinkedIn profile is now available on the internet.
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http://execunet.blogspot.com/2006/02/next-big-thing-in-online-r_113958306073025971.html
I have wasted lots of time at “job sites” on the internet. The corporate ones using Brass Ring were the worst. It’s bad enough having to fill the same info over and over. It was like going to job agencies and employers each of whom want there own unique form filled out. Arghhh! It’s all on my resume.
So why can’t we have two new XML standard types: one for resumes and one for job ads. Imagine your RSS reader only flashes you when a job matches your preferences such as geographic comfort zone and at price suitable for your fianancial comfort zone. Then you can open your browser to their site and submit your XML resume. No scanning, no OCR, no laborious forms to fill out. Swish right into “their” system, what ever it is, and regardless of “who” it is.
Then, we’ll just need the final peice of the puzzle. The XML rejection letter with automagic randomly generated (1) our needs have changed; (2) you’re not qualified; (3) you’re overqualified (i.e., too threatening to our incompetent leadership); (4) you’re overqualified (i.e., you make too much money); (5) you’re overqualified (i.e., you’re too smart to work here); (6) you’re overqualified (i.e., you are not our kind); OR (7) [my personal favorite] you’re overqualified (i.e., you are TOO old).
Then, your computer could talk to their computer and visa versa. And we can all go to Aruba.
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