Hi Guys,
Still in the academic’s mood, let me share with you some of 5 disciples I acquired while writing my essay. I tell you, you can’t afford to float through life, because life is not always fair. It goes for every agreement you are in, but I’ll use the example of our paid-jobs:
1. Personal Mastery: This should be a lifelong process of clarifying your personal growth and instilling necessary learnings. It talks about that ‘(You)nique You’ that nobody can take away from you. This process is 2-fold: constantly clarify the vision/goal/dream that is important to you; and objectively accessing how close you are to it – reality. Learning to cultivate the tension between your vision and reality will expand your capacity to make better choices, and achieve more results. Register for a professional course, develop your natural flare, improve your skills in a scarce area,… just do something, you’ll be glad you did. That way, you‘ll make yourself indispensable, you will have a say in your terms of employment and companies will be willing to pay more for you. Even if/when you are out of a job, you know you have the joker that will get you better offers! Remember, without vision; people perish (Prov 29:18).
2. Mental Models: Your deeply ingrained assumptions and generalizations influence how you understand the world and consequentially take action. What are you seeing with your inner eyes? Nothing? Then you’ll achieve nothing? Mediocrity? Then you’ll achieve mediocrity? Too much flexibility? Then you’ll be end up being tossed to and fro everyday of your life. Continually reflecting upon, discussing and reconsidering these internal pictures will enable you to be better capable of governing your actions and decisions. If you are seeing nothing now, quickly develop one and keep it clearly before you. Guard it jealously and preserve it, it’s one of your rights to good life!
3. Shared Vision: At work, home, anywhere and everywhere, you need to focus on mutual purpose. A scholar explained that if any force has inspired organizations for thousands of years, ‘it’s the capacity to hold a share picture of the future we seek to create’. Even if your Company pays your peanuts; remember you were called on board to support their vision. It might be easier to float along and complain along, but remember you read and signed your Offer Letter. That signature is your word, and it should be binding! As long as you have not resigned, then you keep to the terms of the contract. Fostering genuine commitment and enrolment rather than ordinary compliance will encourage you to learn and excel. No matter your role, share in the vision. Even if you succeed in deceiving your employers, God will hold at your words. Be Warned!
4. Team learning: No man can survive as an island. Groups of people working together on a project experience synergy and productiveness. That way, the whole is better empowered than just the sum of its parts. Building on your personal mastery and the shared vision of your company, you’ll also learn how to recognise patterns of interaction that undermine learning in teams, such as conflicts and defensiveness. Not only will there be good results for the entire organization, individual members will also grow more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise. By sharing both negative and positive experiences and building on lessons learned by other, teams will have the opportunity to avoid 'reinventing the wheel', improve innovation and thereby promote vigorous intellectual corporate growth.
5. System Thinking: This sums up all I’ve said. We grew up believing the whole is the sum of its parts, but there’s something called the ‘Primacy of the Whole’ where the whole exceeds the sum of the parts. Think of where you are as an entity and not just a department or team and examine the interrelationship between the 'departments'. That way, you’ll be conscious of your actions on others and think of more appropriate actions to create enduring solutions to stubborn problems as against short-term departmental resolutions.
This is a complete reorientation of our traditional thought-pattern, right…
Love, Janmo!
Still in the academic’s mood, let me share with you some of 5 disciples I acquired while writing my essay. I tell you, you can’t afford to float through life, because life is not always fair. It goes for every agreement you are in, but I’ll use the example of our paid-jobs:
1. Personal Mastery: This should be a lifelong process of clarifying your personal growth and instilling necessary learnings. It talks about that ‘(You)nique You’ that nobody can take away from you. This process is 2-fold: constantly clarify the vision/goal/dream that is important to you; and objectively accessing how close you are to it – reality. Learning to cultivate the tension between your vision and reality will expand your capacity to make better choices, and achieve more results. Register for a professional course, develop your natural flare, improve your skills in a scarce area,… just do something, you’ll be glad you did. That way, you‘ll make yourself indispensable, you will have a say in your terms of employment and companies will be willing to pay more for you. Even if/when you are out of a job, you know you have the joker that will get you better offers! Remember, without vision; people perish (Prov 29:18).
2. Mental Models: Your deeply ingrained assumptions and generalizations influence how you understand the world and consequentially take action. What are you seeing with your inner eyes? Nothing? Then you’ll achieve nothing? Mediocrity? Then you’ll achieve mediocrity? Too much flexibility? Then you’ll be end up being tossed to and fro everyday of your life. Continually reflecting upon, discussing and reconsidering these internal pictures will enable you to be better capable of governing your actions and decisions. If you are seeing nothing now, quickly develop one and keep it clearly before you. Guard it jealously and preserve it, it’s one of your rights to good life!
3. Shared Vision: At work, home, anywhere and everywhere, you need to focus on mutual purpose. A scholar explained that if any force has inspired organizations for thousands of years, ‘it’s the capacity to hold a share picture of the future we seek to create’. Even if your Company pays your peanuts; remember you were called on board to support their vision. It might be easier to float along and complain along, but remember you read and signed your Offer Letter. That signature is your word, and it should be binding! As long as you have not resigned, then you keep to the terms of the contract. Fostering genuine commitment and enrolment rather than ordinary compliance will encourage you to learn and excel. No matter your role, share in the vision. Even if you succeed in deceiving your employers, God will hold at your words. Be Warned!
4. Team learning: No man can survive as an island. Groups of people working together on a project experience synergy and productiveness. That way, the whole is better empowered than just the sum of its parts. Building on your personal mastery and the shared vision of your company, you’ll also learn how to recognise patterns of interaction that undermine learning in teams, such as conflicts and defensiveness. Not only will there be good results for the entire organization, individual members will also grow more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise. By sharing both negative and positive experiences and building on lessons learned by other, teams will have the opportunity to avoid 'reinventing the wheel', improve innovation and thereby promote vigorous intellectual corporate growth.
5. System Thinking: This sums up all I’ve said. We grew up believing the whole is the sum of its parts, but there’s something called the ‘Primacy of the Whole’ where the whole exceeds the sum of the parts. Think of where you are as an entity and not just a department or team and examine the interrelationship between the 'departments'. That way, you’ll be conscious of your actions on others and think of more appropriate actions to create enduring solutions to stubborn problems as against short-term departmental resolutions.
This is a complete reorientation of our traditional thought-pattern, right…
Love, Janmo!
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