The World is Flat
And It Starts
I started working while I was still studying college. To be honest, college bored me to death. At that stage, I thought I knew more than what the school was teaching. I had the opportunity to learn Multimedia from a rigorous six months training conducted by Japanese trained instructors sponsored by the government.
Capacity Matters
Competency or Capacity
For as long as I could remember, my main goal was to develop my competency. Learning as much as I can on how to become a master of the specific field I was in.
Moving from one role to another, I had to increase my competency of each role. From reading books, magazines, articles, and such to attending seminars and trainings, I felt compeled, even to the point of not fully absorbing everything. I even developed speed reading to be able to absorb as much as I can in a shorter time.
Later, I realized that like good wine, competency building will take time and experience. I then turned to being able to get my hands on as many quality projects as I could.
Just recently, previous article, I came to a realization, by trying to develop my competency moving from one role to another, I indirectly developed my capacity. Now looking at the big picture, Thinking I was going at a certain direction, Actually brought me to another.
Capacity outweights competency in my book anytime. The buzzword these days say, What you know today may be irrelevant tomorrow. Which leads to my newly adopted passion statement, which I got from one of my technical training instructors as well as from a blog I read, “Strive to make yourself obsolete”.
Although Capacity can be manifested in many forms, I believe a balance of all is needed to succeed. I would probably split capacity into capacity to absord and capacity to adapt.
Capacity to absorb knowledge either from existing media or from other people is needed to be able to constantly learn and relearn. To be able to harness this type of capacity, reflective ability must also be developed. By absorbing and properly reflecting on the absorbed data, proper solutions and implementations will be the result.
Capacity to adapt to change will be the most critical, it is the timing aspect. Everything changes so fast these days that the first to adapt will have the leverage. To add to this, a time element must be include, capacity to quickly adapt to change is more suited for this fast changing times.
Team Dynamics
Personal capacity development is only one aspect. A team is as fast as the slowest member they say. As our environment will be an integral part of our development, our progress will only go as far as how our environment will progress.
To bring value to a team or a person, ability to increase the capacity of others will be a catalytic quality. Being able to help others increase their capacity in one way or another will lead to a multitude of benefits for everbody.
Relationships will constantly improve and progress will be balanced for all. Better team dynamics will develop and productivity will improve.
My Lightbulb
Rajesh Setty
Ways to distinguish yourself #183 - Increase your capacity to increase capacity of others
Wandering Around
Management by Wandering Around
I have been wandering around the office ever since I started working. I engage in often times quick and sometimes long conversations with my other colleagues and occassionaly managers.
Talent Attracts Talent
Attract, Retain and Develop
Talent attraction and retention has long been a very dynamic challenge of every organization. Organizations either passively bombard all possible channels with their attraction adverts and hope somebody with talent will bite while others aggressively find talents in every possible nook and crany.
Hard Lesson to Learn
One hard lesson to learn in the coporate world is that it is a dog eat dog world and it is a colorful and vibrant as a rainbow. You get to meet all kinds of people, the genuinely good, the seemingly good, the sometimes good, the sarcastics and cynic, the one with an ultirior motive, the one with an agenda, the bad eggs, the egotistic and worse of all..... the incompetents.
Welcome to my adventures.
This is the start of the adventure. Let us journey together and move around the corporate environment, play the politics and try to move forward.
Going into the corporate environment at first seems exciting and is definitely a move up from college or from freelancing. But after awhile, the politics sets in. A couple of factors play into this situation and manuevering this world becomes an adventure, or mis-adventure.
Join me and let us embark on this adventure together.