PRICE ON SUCCESS -- September 19, 1999
Copyright © 1998, 1999 by Don L. Price
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Balancing on the Edge of Chaos
Moving into the 21st century brings excitement, challenge,
chaos, change and a host of human hurdles to overcome. We are going down
in history as a society that is outliving the organizations we work for.
Several challenges we face are:
1. Living longer -- needing to fill a balance of 15 to 30 additional
years
of personal productivity.
2. Complacency -- retire on the job and counting the years until we
stop
working.
3. Risking becoming too good at what we do -- what was once challenging,
now
becomes boredom.
4. Isolation -- the biggest social disaster of modern time is loneliness.
As
people become dependent and glued to email and communicating via the
Internet, greater potential for lack of social skills and isolation
sets in.
5. Academic education -- Too much of what we learn in school does not
reflect the new realities of the workplace.
Peter Drucker, a celebrated business thinker, says that there will always
be
people who "retire on the job" and then count the years until they
stop
working. But those people who see a second career as an opportunity
for
continued personal growth will be the ones who lead the richest lives.
Some solutions to remedy the problems will come from:
1. Self-responsibility and self-motivation -- putting in place
coping
strategies for overcoming stress, fears and phobias.
2. Find profitable work that has genuine social purpose.
3. Become a continuous learner.
4. Start today planning for the inevitable second, third or forth career.
5. Stop fighting change and challenge -- it is a waste of human energy.
6. Embrace technology -- it will continue to influence our lives and
will
advance faster in the next twenty years than in the previous twenty.
About the future: Remember that technology equips us with the
necessary tools to compete more efficiently. However, the two things that
technology isn't good at -- is common sense, and technology doesn't have
real vision. Computers can see and hear but they cannot and do not understand
what they see and hear.
HUMOR CORNER
Submitted by Libby Aubrey
A Scotsman is urged by his friends to visit New York. Many
of them had come
to NYC and told him it was a great place to visit...the people
friendly,
etc.
The Scotsman comes to NY, stays at the Hyatt Hotel, but he can't get
any
rest because people keep banging on his door, on the ceiling, on the
walls.
But he manages to complete his stay. But when he went home he queried
his
friends about why they thought NY was so friendly. He told them how
he
couldn't get any rest because they kept banging at his walls, his door,
the
ceiling, etc.
His friends asked what he did about it. "Nothing," he replied, "I just
kept on playing my bagpipes."
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Don L. Price
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