True Confessions of a Business Romantic

True Confessions of a Business RomanticTrue Confessions of a Business RomanticTrue Confessions of a Business Romantic Blaszczyk, Managing Editor, Resource CenterAre you bold enough to be a business romantic? And no, were not referring to workplace CupidsAuthor Tim Leberecht, who coins the terms in his new book, The Business Romantic Give Everything, Quantify Nothing, and Create Something Greater Than Yourself (Harper Business, 2014), explains that business romantics are first and foremost humanists. Theyre bold enough to upend traditional business behavior and brave enough to bring heart and soul to their work.This intriguing model welches first inspired by Leberechts own popular 2012 TED Talk, 3 Ways to (Usefully) Lose Control of your Brand.In this interview, he explains his own personal epiphany that leuchtdiode him to become a business romantic and how it can benefit the workplace.Monster What exactly is the mindset of a Business Romantic?Leberecht Its a mindset that explores wit hout exploiting. A lifestyle and leadership style in business that maintains a sense of wonder, doubt, and vulnerability as the basis for the ability to appreciate and manage complex relationships and contradictions.Monster When did you know you were a business romantic?Leberecht It goes back to 2004 when I was serving as an advance press chief for the Athens Olympic Torch Relay. It was then that I experienced my own business romantic epiphany moment.As parte of our six-week trip around the world, the flame touched African soil for the first time in Olympic history. I remember being in Tahrir Square in Cairo and feeling a sense of awe when I saw the pride and joy of thousands of Egyptians around me. It was one of the most romantic moments of my life and the best job Ive ever had.I realized then that this intensity of emotion was exactly what I wanted to experience for the rest of my career. I then looked to business for a sense of adventure and meaning far beyond profit and producti vity.I wrote The Business Romantic because I believe we need more romance in our lives and that we can find it in and through business.Monster You advocate for being vulnerable and passionate at work and not always playing to win a zero-sum game. Is this a new gestalt for employers and their workers?Leberecht I hope so The Business Romantic aims to show that while romance is a world view and a lifestyle, it can also be a powerful framework for business.As professionals, we need to build romantic muscle and practice acts of romance. With the book I wanted to uncover the secrets of business romantics, and help those who arent romantics to recognize its value.Monster How did you test your theory?Leberecht As part of my research, I wanted to test the market demand for Business Romanticism. So I created and posted a fictitious sample job description. I received more than 100 applications in the first week My favorite one was I love this job description, but I will not apply because that would be utterly un-romanticI think we all want material gains and social security through our work, but we also all have an innate desire to connect with something greater than ourselves and to believe in something. The quest for meaning, beyond our individual pursuit of self-realization and happiness, is an incredibly strong driver.I view romance as a key factor of happiness and meaning it is the best way to describe a profound desire for the worlds beauty that cannot be captured in quantitative terms.Monster You also say that work is no longer defined as a place that we go to but rather define it by what we bring to the work. Can you explain?Leberecht This is actually a quote from researcher and writer Stowe Boyd who wrote an article about a start-up named Somewhere that I cite in my book. He said that work is increasingly a thing we do, not a place where we go.With nearly 50% of the global workforce projected to work remotely by 2020, and 75% of the workforce Millennials by 20 25, were witnessing a profound work revolution in increasingly fragmented talent markets, tomorrows knowledge workers will be digital nomads, interdisciplinary micropreneurs, personal brand-builders, and hybrid hackers.The construct of employment with a company is just one of many platforms for these type of workers. Their unique capital will be as much data-driven as it is cultural and romantic.Companies who appeal to their values and how they make them feel will become even more important in attracting and retaining them. Passion and purpose will play a bigger role in the konzept of careers, and permanent learning will no longer be a means to an end, it will be the end. Author BioTim Leberecht is author of The Business Romantic (Harper Business, Jan.) and chief marketing officer of NBBJ, a global design and architecture firm that helps organizations like Amazon, Boeing, Google, Samsung, Starbucks, and Tencent create meaningful experiences. Previously, Leberecht was CMO of product design and strategy firm Frog Design. He has spoken at TEDGlobal, The Economist Big Rethink, DLD, and the Silicon Valley CEO Summit, among other venues. His TED Talk, 3 Ways to (Usefully) Lose Control of Your Brand, has been viewed by more than 700,000 people to date. Based in San Francisco, Leberecht serves on the World Economic Forums Global Agenda Council on Values and on the board of Jump Associates, a strategy and innovation consultancy.Read More Resolve to Be a Business Romantic

How to Be Professional About Expressing Disappointment

How to Be Professional About Expressing DisappointmentHow to Be Professional About Expressing DisappointmentFrom time to time, we all deal with disappointment at work. It just happens. A hiring manager can choose the wrong candidate to fill a vacancy,a project sponsor can suddenly pull support, and a colleague can stab you in the back. One of the hallmarks of a successful employee is the ability to handle these situations with professionalism. A potential pitfall in handling disappointment is appropriately expressing your feelings to those above you in the organizational hierarchy. To avoid a career-limiting mistake in this area, follow these tips on expressing disappointment to your boss. Make Sure You Understand Your Disappointment In any workplace, some things evoke strong emotions. Say someone else takes leistungspunkt for your work and gets away with it. No matter what line of work youre in, that is a highly offensive action and demands a timely response. If youre disappoint ed in the workplace, take a little time to understand what youre feeling and why youre feeling that way. Do you have all the facts? Do facts support your opinions? Going back to the example above, are you certain the other person took credit? How do you know that is what happened? What are the factors at play, possibly affecting the situation? Dont let your emotions get ahead of your facts. Understand what is going on and how it is affecting your attitude. Express Yourself Clearly Words are powerful. Precise language is important, and that importance is amplified when the conversation is a difficult one like when an employee needs to express disappointment to his or her supervisor. When you express disappointment, be careful about the words you choose. Avoid unintentionally blaming someone for something theydid bedrngnis do. For instance, do not blame your boss for doing something that is required by organizational policy. If your boss is required to document a performance probl em you agree formally is an issue, do not insinuate your boss is at fault for the issue being documented in your personnel file. The conversation should remain focused. Do not drift from one complaint to another without explicitly doing so. When the conversation drifts, little is resolved, and if there are remedies agreed upon, they may not address the right topics. Know What You Want Being disappointed boils down to your expectations, not being met. You thought one thing should have happened, but it did not, and something else did. When you go into the conversation with your boss about the disappointment, know what you want to get out of the conversation. Do you want to be heard and have this opinion factored into future decisions? Do you want some remedy for the harm youve experienced? Do you want a reversal of whatever decision led to your disappointment? Knowing what you want helps you frame and steer the conversation. It might sound manipulative, but it isnt if you do not i ntend to be manipulative. You probably have a set of logical points you want to outline sequentially to set up what you want to happen. Theres nothing wrong with outlining how you want the encounter to play out. Keep an Open Mind You may go into the conversation knowing exactly what you want to happen during and after the conversation but keep an open mind. By virtue of his or her organizational position, your boss may have insight into your issue you do not possess. The ideas you went into the conversation with may be rendered moot or ineffective by the new information your boss brings to the conversation. Be open to solutions, alternatives, and compromises. The ideas your boss brings to the table may be much better than yours. Be Prepared for the Consequences of Speaking Up In healthy organizations, people who express concerns respectfully are valued for challenging the position quo. They reduce the likelihood of groupthink and stagnation. In unhealthy organizations, peopl e who speak up are considered naysayers and barriers to progress. Know which type of organization yours is. If you work in an unhealthy organization, think carefully about whether the potential consequences of speaking up are worth whatever might be gained from the conversation. Some fights are not worth picking if you know you are going to lose. If you work in a healthy organization, follow the advice here. Your boss will genuinely try to understand your opinions and will seek the best resolution for everyone.

Cloud-Building

Cloud-BuildingCloud-BuildingWhen it comes to careers in the IT industry, jobs tend to specialize into five different categories Applications Servers Network Storage SecurityThere are very few individuals who can claim expertise in all five categories. There is simply too much to learn.A new type of IT career is emerging that is directly related to the phenomena of cloud computing the virtual data center (VDC) architect. A VDC architect has the skills to design data centers that support virtualized applications, placing them into cloud-like infrastructures.Designing a virtualized data center is dramatically different from designing a physical data center. It is a skill, however, that can be learned. It does leid require deep and in-depth knowledge of all five categories. It does require, however, strong inter-personal and collaboration skills with the experts in those areas.Many IT organizations do not have a VDC architect. These organizations can choose to either (a) promote one of t heir own, or (b) hire a new employee or consultant.EMC has created a training course and certification process for VDC architects that can serve homegrown IT specialists or hired consultants. The course instructs the trainee on fundamental VDC attributes (including an overview of all of the five categories mentioned above). In addition, the course lays the foundation for advancing to a higher level of certification (cloud architect).More information on the VDC architecture certification can be found here. I attended one of the earliest versions of the course, and for your reference Ive attached a video below that gives a high-level overview of the course.IT specialists should consider VDC certification as a solid career strategy that takes advantage of the cloud computing trend.Steve http//stevetodd.typepad.com Twitter SteveTodd EMC Intrapreneur

Give Us the Freedom to Walk, Bike or Drive

Give Us the Freedom to Walk, Bike or Drive Give Us the Freedom to Walk, Bike or Drive Give Us the Freedom to Walk, Bike or DriveTheres an old joke about people who drive a mile to the gym so they can walk two miles on a treadmill, but it is true that Americans typically dont travel from place to place on foot.Thats not an indictment of laziness. The choice of getting around any way other than by petroleum-powered automobile has been taken away from most Americans.Join ASME and Leading Industry Experts for Offshore Wind Turbine Webinar seriesHeres an anecdote from my own personal experience. While my architect wife was remodeling our home, we rented a house a few blocks from the local elementary school. We were so close that we could have enjoyed the daily ritual of walking together to the school. Unfortunately, walking was not an option. There wasnt a sidewalk along the busy road or a protected way to cross the streets safely. Sure, there was a crossing signal at the light, but no si dewalks on either side, so we would have had to walk in a ditch along a five-lane highway and stand in mud while waiting to cross.Instead we had to get in our car and drive those few blocks just for our own safety, consuming more energy and spewing more emissions along the way, only to wait in a long line of cars with other parents dropping off their kids, tailpipes close to kids noses pumping particulate matter into their lungs.This isnt a good way to live.Read ASMEs Top Story Five Job Interview Questions Young Engineers Can Expect Whos responsible for this mess?Electric vehicle charging station at Fashion Centre at fnfeck City, Arlington, Virginia. Image Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz / Wikimedia CommonsIts easy to blame urban planners. By omitting protected bike lanes, sidewalks, pedestrian-friendly crossings, mass transit, and density, their plans have essentially required us to use cars. But the dominance of one mode of transportationpetroleum-powered automobilesabove all others is also due to conscious decisions made by homebuilders.As Jace Deloney, a transportation expert based in Austin, Texas, noted via Twitter, modern houses are designed like car-dominant cities. New homes often make the garage more prominent than the front door.When homebuilders erect subdivisions remote from public transit, they have decided for us that we will drive cars, since there are no alternative ways of getting around.By not wiring or plumbing our garages for high-power charging or natural gas fueling, they have decided for us that we will drive gasoline or diesel-powered automobiles.Listen to the latest episode of ASME TechCast Breakthrough Could Bring New Cancer TreatmentIts easy to imagine the alternative. If every garage in every home was built pre-wired and pre-plumbed for home charging and fueling, consumers would have more options about the type of car and fuel they use. Buying an electric or natural gas-powered vehicle wouldnt require hiring a contractor on top of choosi ng a car.Ultimately, its crazy that home builders choose our transport for us. But that could be easy to fix with building codes and planning policies. Designing houses that accommodate different transportation modespre-wired and pre-plumbed for non-petroleum cars and maybe with a bike rack, toois an important complement to designing livable, walkable cities that dont prioritize cars.ur homes and buildings are the ultimate durable goods, lasting decades or centuries. And by one estimate, the world will need to add 2 billion homes over the next 80 years to account for population growth. Since new homes will be with us for a long time, building them with transportation and energy flexibility in mind will help us meet challenges we know about, such as climate change, and adapt to those that we havent yet imagined.More on Energy Policy from Michael Webber U.S. Can Learn From Texas Surge in Wind and Solar PowerTo get there, Americans will have to reframe their notions of independence. Th e idea that unknown faraway bureaucrats or hidden corporatists would make decisions for us gets our hackles up and underpins the modern political rivalry between parties who strive to protect us from the oppression of either big government or big business. Self-reliance and the freedom to chart our own course is a definitive aspect of United States culture.While the arrival of cars in post-WWII America typified freedom because they let us move to the suburbs and roam the country, we now have become trapped in car-dominated cities and homes. Its time we take the power back into our hands from homebuilders and city planners.We should demand more freedom, which means more options for movement.Michael Webber is the Josey Centennial prof of Energy Resources at the University of Texas in Austin and Chief Science and Technology Officer at ENGIE, a global energy company headquartered in Paris. Register today for ASMEs Offshore Wind Summit to learn about the latest technologies, opportunitie s and supply chain strategies from leaders in the oil, gas and wind energy industries. Read Latest Exclusive Stories from ASME.org 6 Ways Engineers Heal a Broken Heart Shrinking an Exhaust Resonator for New Automotive Design Game Theory Helps Robot Design

The Ultimate Guide to Teen Resume Template

The Ultimate Guide to Teen Resume Template Theres no doubt that a resume which is both cohesive and professional will have a much better prospect of standing from the crowd even supposing its made utilizing a template. People today utilize a variety of resume templates using different sort of design approaches, but ultimately its always likely to come to the simple fact that your resume should convey a very clear message above your skills, your experience, and also why youd be the ideal candidate for the position. It truly is difficult enough to find work. In case you have any part-time work, that will go a ways towards a wonderful experience section. Speaking of unique, the main aim of your resume is to make you stick out from the remainder of the folks applying for equal job and anotlagelageher means to create that happen is to use action verbs and power words (also known as resume verbs). However tempting it may be to stretch the truth, lying on your resume is always a poor id ea. Well, regardless of what stage youre in your career, youre likely to should understand how to make a resume for a job bewerbungsgesprch and we are likely to explain to you how Thoughts revolving around what you would like to achieve in your career will end in the response to the most essential question. What Is So Fascinating About Teen Resume Template? When youre asking for a job which relies on the strengths of the person, you require a resume template which you can inject a little more personality into to make it pop. Also make certain that you tailor the document to the job youre applying for. Be certain that the skills are related to the job which you desire. Attempt to include your experience with specific duties about the job youre applying for. A work application builder can be enormously precious for anybody whos sense overcome by job application procedure. When applying for employment in a big business you may find they use specialized software to help weed out candidates. As soon as you have prepared and submitted your resume to an employer the hope is you will be requested to attend work interview to go over further whether youre going to be suitable. In case the employer may not have the ability to comprehend the resume, then you can be sure you will not receive the job. What About Teen Resume Template? The upcoming free resume template is devised in the shape of a brochure. Career aspirants must be aware of a resume template in the place of a programs vitae template. You can discover the very best template and pattern your continue intended for the specific job. A timeless style resume template is also simple to customize. Application builders are an exceptional technique to help you organize your curriculum vitae. More than a few of them come with variations so that you can select your favourite design. Our creative templates enable you to stick out from the crowd. Each one of our creative style templates offer you a perfe ctly balanced mixture of personality, professionalism and a little style. Career Objectives are excellent for resumes with a particular purpose. Student resumes are generally restricted to volunteer and school experiences. High School Resume templates are a fantastic resource for such students. Learning how to do a resume when do not have any work experience is much simpler if its possible to demonstrate some seasonal or short-term work experience. A good deal of women and men would want to find a lot greater job. Creating a resume whenever you dont have plenty of experience can be challenging for teens. Its helpful to examine student and part-time resume examples to find some ideas about what a very good one contains. The Honest to Goodness Truth on Teen Resume Template 11 Another one on the list is a totally free student resume template made by Paul Jansen. Well, a part of software analyzes your resume for sure key terms and provides you a score based how well your resum e matches a predetermined collection of keywords chosen by the business youre interviewing with. Once you have selected your perfect resume template from our selection, follow our absolutely free expert guidance about ways to craft the great modern resume. Visual resume is about visuals, utilizing visual facets of graphic design to permit visual imagery and total visual appearance to speak for itself. Resume objectives are something that you have to get right. The resume objective is a vital part of the resume. It is an essential portion of your resume.

Resume How Many Pages Guide

Resume How Many Pages Guide Resume How Many Pages Fundamentals Explained Supply your bar status if youre asking for a legal position for which the bar is necessary, but keep the information to a single line on your resume. When youve assembled all of the information needed to compose your CV, do take the opportunity to apply standardized formatting, including headings and utilize concise bullet points instead of long paragraphs. Theres not anything wrong with a 2 page resume in several cases. Everything on your resume has to be accurate but everything doesnt have to be on it. Possessing a well-formatted, clean and professional resume is a significant approach to earn an amazing first impression, which will help you receive the job that you are really interested in. Read below for mora comprehensive info on the length of time your resume should be, and strategies for making your resume the ideal length. The duration of your resume should depend on your experience and the kin d of job that youre seeking. Job seekers can choose whether to send the complete document or only the first two pages to a possible employer, dependent on the work opportunity requirements. References can be included in the resume, but you need to present your portfolio in a distinct document or present it online. Three or four unique jobs can be placed onto a single page. Resumes dont need to be one page. Recruiters and employers just have a few moments to determine whether your resume is an excellent fit for the position. Lastly, federal resumes have undergone major changes over the last ten years. More than four decades, and youll likely need two pages. More than five decades, and youll likely need two pages. Definitions of Resume How Many Pages Law school resumes arent the exact same as a resume that you would utilize to turn in an application for work. Career aspirants ought to keep an eye out for a resume template as an alternative to a courses vitae template. Yo u might also compose a two-page resume if youre in a field that demands technical skills. Language skills are sometimes a fantastic selling point on your resume.