Enough has been written about today’s unemployment rates and the challenges associated with finding that next job. My question is: Who have you
Have you heard of Twitch? I only recently heard about it. It’s a social platform that’s based entirely on streaming digital video broadcasts. It’s interesting to learn about these new things, but it just proves that there’s so much new technology out there that I don’t know about. The main reason I’m not aware of these things is because I’m not in that age category anymore—people under the age of 35 or 40.
Remember Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes? He once said, “The less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.” I have to agree with him.
I know several people who have retired and who golf. During the summertime, some of them will put time in at the golf course to make a little extra money. It basically pays for them to take these little odd jobs at the golf course so they can golf and make ends meet. It’s a little bit of a gig economy.
Some of you may recognize the name Angela Duckworth. She’s the University of Pennsylvania psychology professor who researched the impact that effort has on success. During a visit to West Point Military Academy during its Beast Barracks for new freshman, she found that those who had “grit” were the ones most likely to be successful. Not necessarily the smartest ones or the most talented ones—but those who had grit.
You know how an event or experience can really define or change you? Well that happened to me in 1998 when I took a Kolbe profile, and it showed me for the first time how I like to naturally operate, which was very different from what I was doing. It was a huge change for me!
Some of you may recognize the name Angela Duckworth. She’s the University of Pennsylvania psychology professor who researched the impact that effort has on success. During a visit to West Point Military Academy during its Beast Barracks for new freshman, she found that those who had “grit” were the ones most likely to be successful. Not necessarily the smartest ones or the most talented ones—but those who had grit.
As you’re contemplating the year ahead this Holiday season, consider a Kolbe profile. It’s an assessment tool that we use to understand how each of us solves problems and how we naturally go about doing things if left to our own devices.
A job defines us. I know mine defines me.
Sometimes that can run right by us. I think about folks who worked making buggy whips or carburetors or the Polaroid camera. I think of the hundreds of thousands of people at Kodak that had their world changed over the past decade, well before the company declared bankruptcy last year.
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