What’s Lost When Experts Retire.
But in dozens of recent interviews with CTOs, CIOs, and top HR managers in preparation for writing our new book Critical Knowledge Transfer, we found that managers often don’t know what they have lost until after the expert leaves — and by then, it may be difficult to recover.
Duh.
“Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What Does It Mean to Be an Invisible?
Many of the Invisibles I met with are at the top of their fields; some are in charge of complex operations and of scores, even hundreds, of workers; many are well remunerated. I wanted to know: How is it, in an age when seemingly everyone is aggressively self-promoting, when we’re told that in order to get ahead we must have a brand or a “platform,” that these people—consummate professionals all—are satisfied with anonymity? How can they have the confidence to do their demanding jobs and yet not the ego to want to be widely known for their work? Despite the diversity of their careers, I found that all Invisibles share certain traits, with three in particular at the core.
Ambivalence toward recognition. We all do work that is anonymous to some extent, but most of us strive for recognition. That is how we feed our sense of self-worth. Invisibles take a different approach. For them, any time spent courting praise or fame is time taken away from the important and interesting work at hand. In fact, their relationship with recognition is often the inverse of what most of us enjoy: The better they do their jobs, the more they disappear. It may only be when something goes wrong that they’re noticed at all.
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The supply and demand scale for emergency physicians is obviously going to be tipped in favor of physicians for many years to come. If you’re an ABEM/AOBEM certified physician with a solid track record, typically the job hunt can be akin to achieving celebrity status – “Everybody wants you – everybody needs you”. In most parts of the country, a well-qualified EP is highly likely to secure a position at the hospital of his or her choice.
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I asked Peter Senge about that. How to try to live and work in a sane way when you’re in the middle of insanity: a voracious workplace that will eat you alive, friends and neighbors who raise eyebrows if you pull your kids out of some competitive activity. He gave some important advice: Create your own community, a network of like-minded people. Humans are wired to conform—that’s why these cultural pressures, however silly they may seem, wield such power over us. So find a group that fits your values that would make you happier to conform to.
via America’s Workers: Stressed Out, Overwhelmed, Totally Exhausted – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic.
Students’ Tops Goals Are Work-Life Balance, Security – Talent Management magazine.
Work-Life balance. One of the questions I’ve posed to my own kids over the years has been:
Do you live to work or work to live?
Being honest and true to yourself when answering this question will enable you to have a quantum leap towards the life you want to live.
As I typed the title I heard a collective gasp from the Force. You can’t be serious? Professional writer? Do you know how hard it will be to make a living?
Yes, as a matter of fact I do.
I have this to say to my legions of followers: do not panic. Here are the service offering changes to expect this year:
There are a lot of very smart people in business today; there are not a lot of good writers. Couple this with the fact that companies need to produce more words, via a greater number of channels, than ever before, and you quickly come to realize that the corporate landscape is rife with opportunity for those who know how to communicate, you know, good. I.J. Schecter
Here is what to expect from this blog:
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