The gift of freedom to learn your own career lessons

CEO vs janitor
We laugh – and point fingers – but it’s profound.

 

The gift of freedom to learn your own career lessons.

CEO’s are vulnerable because they get handled. No one wants to point out the CEO’s blindspots or weaknesses because of the assorted socially perpetuated hallucinations about how doing this is bad for your career.

PS. You are the CEO of You, Inc.

 

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Will celebrating milestones help your culture thrive?

Daniel bricks
Who was Daniel and why is his name on some of the bricks?

 

Should you be let go for our obvious, gross negligence?

Will celebrating milestones help your culture thrive? Of course. Yet it’s astonishing how many people know it but do not actively design their corporate human resource practices with intentionality.

It’s Sunday, January 25, 2015. Who cares? No one.

But what if we recalled that January 25 was jungle jeff’s very first day with the Walt Disney Company?

But it was so long ago, 1982, that it no longer has relevance or value to today’s work.

Epic failure.

Hard to appreciate the Mississippi River without the knowledge of it’s headwaters.

Most of your employees have no knowledge of your founder. Not even if their life depended on it.

Acceptable?

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If work is so much fun, why can we hardly stand it?

Eyes and Ears Central Florida publication

 

(photo: Eyes and Ears is a large Central Florida publication… it’s common to see this everywhere in the Orlando area)

If she was a chef like the mouse in Ratatouille and experimented with every type of food and crazy combinations people would call her a lunatic (until the end of the movie).

If he was Mr. Incredible and couldn’t help himself from trying to catch the bad guys even though he no longer works as a superhero people would call him a freak (until the end of the movie).

If she wanted to join the men-only army to save her father, people would label her insane (until the end of the movie).

What inspires us to push through the labels and do what we feel in our heart needs to be done?

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Burn the corporate ladder?

Going to the Sun Road looking east near Logan Pass

 

(photo: Going-To-The-Sun Road climbs to Logan Pass and the Continental Divide – humans have an innate desire to see the next horizon)

Could we thrive in a career that wasn’t built on climbing higher up the proverbial ladder?

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jungle jeff Rant

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Lane 8.org

Are you satisfied?

When you wake up every day, what are some of the first things you do or think about?  Did you start thinking about today last night?

The workday begins the night before.

So last night, in thinking about yesterday’s post and the reference to the Fast Company article, I’m good with it ending the way it did.

Do you start blaming others and thinking about all the things “they” need to do? Or do you look in the mirror and analyze what you need to fix?

This will determine, in large part, your success or failure.

What was interesting was that just yesterday, these jeff noel blogs set a single day record for daily visits. It’s taken years to get “here”.

And I got here by doing stuff, not by anything else.

Be more:

  • Creative than you ever have
  • Focused than you ever have
  • Willing to fix yourself than you ever have
  • Determined than you ever have

And find your purpose.  That’s the key.  You know it and I know it. We all read about it, and listen to others talk about it.

Talk is cheap. And so is lying to ourselves.