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This page is in the advanced prototype stage. Areas of needed improvement are often noted in the notes column
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This page is one of the entry points into my Time-Life Navigation sm website. It is also the first in a series of career related pages. This page is a subset of managing oneself which is a subset of effectiveness which is a subset of Peter Drucker's view of management. All of these ideas are a subset of Time-Life Navigation.
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At age 20 (today) a person can anticipate a 50-60 year work life. It pays to be informed on the nature of the challenges ahead. It pays to make the right decisions early on. According to recent news reports, those born now can expect to live to 104 years of age. Retirement at age 65 is going to become a thing of the past.
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Add link to career view diagram
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Just going to college is not enough. Hopefully the work on this page will provide a valuable gap filler.
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Universities and colleges provide a "passport" to careers.
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A fairly large percentage of graduates can't/don't find work in their major.
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Their is a statistical financial correlation between those with degrees and those without. There is not a one-to-one correlation between university course content and what goes on in the outside world. In a few areas such as medicine there is a much higher correlation.
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This page is divided into three main parts: some foundational information; some key objectives before graduation; some work plan elements for the first few years of work. The page is in outline format to make its structure clearer.
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A beginning foundation for future directed decisions
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Waiting until the last minute or trouble before doing effective early career work: will most likely have a major negative impact on your life. One that may take a decade or so to reverse.
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The intent of this page
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More than how to find a job.
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Provide a blue print an early foundation for an interesting life.
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A life with some flexibility and mobility.
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It is about how to get beyond today
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20, 30, 40 years down the road: no major regrets
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This page is meant as a work outline. Not just something to read. Some thing specific to do rather than just drifting.
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Identify the action areas and then think broad and detailed in each action area
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Outlining software may be helpful
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Try plotting on a chart
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You can print a pdf and use as a check list
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About me (my foundation for preparing this page and associated site)
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I'm a former corporate restructuring executive with a Fortune 200 company.
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There was no world-class management. Nobody knew what it is or how to go about practicing it.
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I read several hundred news articles everyday and almost none of the people in the mainstream media have a clue.
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Not one of the thousands of people's jobs and dozens of companies that my work touched knew they were in trouble and were prepared for the impact this is going to have on their lives.
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I've worked extensively with over 60 organizations in variety fields on their "financial planning."
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This work was a failure because money in an organization can't be managed if the institution isn't managed
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I'm also a former CPA
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I've become a financial reports agnostic—too easy and to tempting to cook the books in a way that leads to the destruction of the organization.
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What really explains the countless big business that have closed or restructured over the last 30+ years?
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Investigate the crisis at IBM, Dell, Sony, American Auto Companies.
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I've spent the last 25+ years dissecting conceptual resources …
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My favorite authors are Peter Drucker, and Edward de Bono. Drucker argues the future relies on the productivity of knowledge and service workers
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I also test software …
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Career aspirations and directions: Getting real
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It pays to know your real best options so you'll be able to choose
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The older people around you entered the workforce in an earlier situation. They may not provide a reliable model. There is a fairly high turnover rate in C-suite jobs.
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You can't be or do anything you want
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Michael Jordon couldn't be a pro baseball player
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Albert Einstein couldn't be a musician—not gifted in music. Was gifted in math.
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There are a few exceptions
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Thoughts on passion
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You can't rely on passion. Only you care about your passions. Other people care about what you can do for them.
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How about a passion for making a valuable contribution?
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How about a passion for managing oneself and effectivenesss
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How about a passion for being responsible for doing the right thing in society?
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A passion for doing what needs doing, then moving on to the next thing that needs doing? There are some links on this page that will help.
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How much income is needed to live a comfortable life?
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Support a family?
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Prepare for retirement
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An emergency fund
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Money needed to fund a career shift
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Jobs exist in the economy (private sector), the social sector ( nonprofits), and the public sector (government)
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Roughly speaking there are:
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Jobs that require muscle
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Service workers
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Knowledge technologists (para-legal, medical technicians, etc.)
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Knowledge workers (teachers, lawyers, accountants, chemists etc.)
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Generalists (possess the ability to rapidly move from one knowledge specialty to another)
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Knowledge executives (know how to allocate knowledge to productive use)
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The only reason that these jobs exist is to make a contribution outside the person and outside an organization
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There is contrary evidence, but much of it exists because of ineffective competition
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If you're standing in Wal-Mart or where ever what do you care about the passion or whatever of those in the supply chain? How much does it really influence your buying decision? How much of the stuff in stores or on the street do you really pay attention to?
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To get an overview of job "locations"
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Consider the source of the "stuff" (food, iPods, clothes, or safe neighborhoods) that touches peoples lives and what it takes to get this stuff produced and available (Wal-Mart, shopping malls, police and fire departments) to us.
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See lists of large organizations at Forbes or Fortune
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Where are their jobs located?
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See the Yellow Pages
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The vast majority of the above are product/service driven vs. market driven—with predictable consequences. They only go half way toward satisfying customers.
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Imagine 50 random coordinates in Google Earth or Maps. What do you see?
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We are embedded in a world moving in time!!!
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Jobs change
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New types appear
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Existing types
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Transmute
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Disappear
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People move
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Escaping "My Little Town"
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We need "time awareness"
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Subscribe to web site news letters (quickly scan article titles)
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Forbes
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MIT Technology Review
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Modern Marvels
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What had to happen to make the topic of the program effective in society?
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What has to happened to the old stuff the marvel replaced?
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Try investigating other topics on the History Channel site
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Harvest and chart key ideas from the following
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Charting
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Scan my blog clips to identify potential topics of interest. Need to write a paper? Find a topic or topic "seed" in blog clips notebook
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Try to get your hands on a video version of James Burke's Connections.
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You can make all the plans you will, plot to make a fortune in the commodities market, speculate on developing trends: all will likely come to naught, for "however carefully you plan for the future, someone else's actions will inevitably modify the way your plans turn out." So writes the English scholar and documentary producer James Burke in his sparkling book Connections, a favorite of historically minded readers ever since its first publication in 1978. Taking a hint from Jacob Bronowski's Ascent of Man, Burke charts the course of technological innovation from ancient times to the present, but always with a subversive eye for things happening in spite of, and not because of, their inventors' intentions. Burke gives careful attention to the role of accident in human history. In his opening pages, for instance, he writes of the invention of uniform coinage, an invention that hinged on some unknown Anatolian prospector's discovering that a fleck of gold rubbed against a piece of schist—a "touchstone"—would leave a mark indicating its quality. Just so, we owe the invention of modern printing to Johann Gutenberg's training as a goldsmith, for his knowledge of the properties of metals enabled him to develop a press whose letterforms would not easily wear down. With Gutenberg's invention, Burke notes, came a massive revolution in the European economy, for, as he writes, "the easier it is to communicate, the faster change happens." Burke's book is a splendid and educational entertainment for our fast-changing time
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Look at the tables of content of the books you'll study. Where do the topics fit in the world of today or tomorrow?
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People change with age and situations
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When you have to write a school paper, write about something work/career related. What de Bono said about not reading everything
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Keep a backup of all your career work
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Key objectives well before graduation
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Develop a knowledge base that meets several criteria:
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Makes sense in terms of the outside world
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In line with social priorities
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Valuable to society and economy going forward
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What needs doing? What will this require in the way of knowledge. History channel: asteroid danger > required knowledge > knowledges are a pathway to knowledge.
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Drucker: What is visible on the storm driven surface and the underlying current
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Examine the courses you propose to take. Where, how, and when they fit the world of today and tomorrow and then ...
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In choosing one's knowledge specialty, think through how easy it will be to migrate to a new knowledge area
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Investigate areas of job interest > job web sites > analyze skill and knowledge needs
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Google search for career decisions
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Jobs actually exist and are available (unfilled)
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You've verified this by thirty information or networking interviews
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Tracked by size, location, prominence
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There is a bridge to related knowledges (so you don't end up in a knowledge cul-de-sac)
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The knowledge area is one in which you can work and perform
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Consider what basic performance skills you'll need
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David Allen's Project Planning
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Thinking skills
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What is focus and purpose of my current thinking?
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Meeting skills (Six Thinking Hats may be helpful)
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see intro to The Effective Executive
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Writing skills (a production system)
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E-mail (tips and etiquette—don't assume you know. One wrong e-mail can cost you thousands)
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Reports
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Information gathering and assimilation. See arsenal of information tools below.
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Good ammunition for your resume and interviewing (their questions and your questions)
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Get organized for the job search process (basically networking)
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People typically find job through networking
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add stuff about selling yourself
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Add a good job search book from Amazon
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DEVONthink Find@: [ Giving Internships a Post-College Try
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Temporary work can be very useful. It's often a good opportunity to shine on a job. Many people are offered full-time positions once they have proven themselves working on a temporary basis. If you are thinking of working temp, be a smart shopper. Look for an agency with a professional staff and a good reputation
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Develop an arsenal of information tools (tools for acquiring, harvesting, and implementing). This is a key to having an interesting life
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Structured note taking system
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Favorite life design book marks (export & import)
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Hard drive folder structure with value & radar rings in name
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Foundations (see below)
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Thinking canvas for overviews
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Thinking collage: Second Avenue; Out of Africa
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Collecting life design ideas
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model week
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model year
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elements mind map
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Work plan for your first few years of work
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Now that you've found a job, what do you do next?
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Perform in your current job (weekly review)
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Figure out what it takes
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Reactive and Pro-Active Thinking
In school it is very practical to put work-sheets, textbooks, and blackboard texts in front of students. The students are then asked to 'react' to what is before them. For these practical reasons almost all the thinking taught in school is 'reactive'.
'Here is something—what do you think of it?'
You cannot easily ask students to go out and organize a business. You cannot easily ask students to solve a real problem or undertake a real project. It simply is not practical in a school setting.
It also happens that this reactive type of thinking fits in with the intellectual tradition of scholarship: how do we react to what is already in existence?
But school and education is not a game unto itself. Real life involves a great deal of 'pro-active' thinking. This means going out and doing things. All the information is not given—you have to find it. Something is not placed before you. If you just sit in your chair nothing will happen. It is easy enough to eat in a restaurant if the meal is placed before you. But buying the food (or even growing it) and cooking it are different matters.
It is not the fault of education that pro-active thinking is not so easy to handle as reactive thinking. But it is the fault of education to suppose that reactive thinking is sufficient.
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Information executives need and stuff harvested from communication, management principles
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Watch for signs of trouble (a monthly review)
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Start building the foundation for the rest of your life
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What is happiness?
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Begin assembling a "playbook" (choreographed scenarios) of fun ideas. So when you get busy you have something to fall back on rather than collapsing on the couch. Get in really good physical shape so your energy level is high
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Within my realm of your day to day or "normal" experience, what possible emergencies or major crisis could you train for?
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Start preparing for executive responsibilities and gain familiarity with executive tools. This will provide a set of work guidelines so one can concentrate on content rather than framework.
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Harvest and calendarize Peter Drucker Resources
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Peter Drucker interviews
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What about these areas of interest?
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Harvest and calendarize next job search needs
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Create an action management system. Something that will move you through time and life. Something that will help identify effective time investments
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The ability to recognize important ideas and calendarize them. Do your homework. Be an Intelligent Time Investor
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Assistance available.