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.. .. Things that high-achieving people seek from a career in order
to gain a maximum sense of involvement and accomplishment.
1. Intrinsic personal interest: work that involves activities that are personally interesting and worthwhile in their own right. 2. Challenge and stimulation: work that provides problems of sufficient difficulty that solving them requires a satisfying use of mental agility. 3. Personal involvement: work that employees care about for a cause that matters to them. 4. Significance: tasks that make a real contribution and feeling that what the employee does matters. 5. Recognition: having efforts recognized and appreciated; being valued as a contributor and feeling that one’s efforts matter. |
The
latter extends to being recognized and appreciated for one’s humanity and
diversity and to having one’s person and one’s personal life and needs
honored and respected.
6. Influence: the ability to have some degree of say regarding one’s job and the overall enterprise. To feel that the organization takes into account and values the individual’s input. 7. Creativity: the opportunity to contribute ideas and solutions and to receive support and recognition for such contributions. 8. Independence: the ability to work independently and make decisions autonomously without constant scrutiny. 9. Control: the ability to exercise a degree of choice over work schedule and work activities. 10. Income: a sufficient or comfortable income and benefits. 11. Security: the promise of dependable, ongoing employment. 12. Positive environment: a positive work environment with congenial co-workers. from
article
- How to attract, retain and develop
....Your
Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit photo:
Liz Parker [Shiri Appleby] being a waitress
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I want to open a restaurant. I want to design clothes. I want to write children's stories. I want to do charity work. I want to buy California!
Sara Foster ... [Interview, Feb 2004] photo from The Big Bounce
..related page : personal qualities
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an amazing fact. Paul Newman, one of Hollywood's biggest superstars, will
gross more money from his salad dressing and other products than he will
from his movies.
"Newman's Own" salad dressing, which started in his basement stables as an annual Christmas gift to friends and neighbors, already has grossed more than $150 million -- all of which has been given to various charities. .... He asked his buddy, writer A.E. Hotchner, to help him with a Christmas project he was assembling in the basement below a converted barn that once was a stable for farm horses. The project was to mix up a batch of Newman's natural salad dressing in a washtub, then pour it into old wine bottles, and cork it. Then, on Christmas Eve, the Newman and Hotchner families would go caroling around the snowy neighborhood and hand out the bottled salad dressing. They made too much that holiday season and decided to peddle the surplus in local grocery stores. It caused a sensation, which convinced the two entrepreneurs to go big time. .... |
.. .. In their office hangs a sign: "There are three rules for doing business. Fortunately, we don't know any of them." I learned all the above by reading a book by Paul and Hotchner titled Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good. It should be a textbook in the Harvard Business School but it never will be. It's too unorthodox. James Bacon - in his column, Beverly Hills [213], Nov 19 2003 |
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| "I think everyone has their
own row to hoe, if you will. For some people, their path may be more
of a lonely path, that of a monk rather than a street minister. For me,
I want to make a huge impact, and I know that to accomplish this takes
a lot of collaboration.
I've found that collaboration is valuable for two reasons: One you get to achieve more. Two, as my wife and I like to say in our couples class, 'If you want to be on the fast track for spiritual growth, get married, have children and start your own business.' Because if you start your own business, everything that's not clear inside of you is going to get reflected back to you from your clients, from your employees and from your vendors." Jack Canfield - quoted in The Truth About Work: Making a Life, Not a Living by David Harder ....book:**The Power of Focus by Jack Canfield |
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What if you're a lover of the arts but you're not artistically inclined? You could always do what Jeff Hayward did and conduct research for museums. 
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..His firm, People, Places & Design Research in my own hometown of Northampton, Massachusetts gauges audience reaction to exhibits for museums and other interpretive institutions, such as aquariums, historical societies, parks and botanical gardens.
Museum research isn't the only way to make a living from the great indoors. Last year, The Wall Street Journal profiled another creative self-bosser, niche publisher, Robert McFarland.
Working from the mountain hamlet of Jefferson, North Carolina, Mr. McFarland has built a profitable career printing unusual titles that big publishers wouldn't touch...
from article Opportunity Knocks:
Creative Alternatives to Having a Job -
Cool Ways to Earn a Living -- Indoors or Out -
by Valerie Youngher site : Changing Course
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. ** Barbara Stanwyck [1907-90]
from book: The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes
bio video: Barbara Stanwyck
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"I believe the older you get, the more radical you become. Rabble-rousing, tree-hugging, heart-bleeding - that's the stuff I like. I am essentially an activist, an agitator and a saboteur." Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop International
book: Anita Roddick: Business as Unusual
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"We're in the midst of a business renaissance, in which innovation and new ideas are critical.
Yet how many managers do you know who spend any time thinking about how they think?"Annette Moser-Wellman [fastcompany.com]
author of The Five Faces of Genius: Becoming a Business Artist by Finding Your Genius Within
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by Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag
The first element of work-as-play is enthusiasm: we have to want to do the work we do.
It has to ignite our deep love for living. We have to reach out with our full presence-with
a full yes!-and do our chosen work with our whole fiery spirit. We must know in our heart,
in the truth-knowing fluid of our soul's arteries, that it is right.We may not be able to explain or justify our choice, but we know intuitively that we are
on the right path, doing the right thing, breathing the oxygen that our soul's lungs need to live.The second element is freedom. We do not serve any master other than our innate freedom of being.
We work from our heart, with devotion. Where there is devotion, there is freedom. We love our work
because our work reveals who we are. We become intimate with our work and those with whom we work,
because the revelations of our soul in what we do has a depth of feeling which exposes our inside to the outside.
Robert Rabbin - from "Work As Play" in ONN-Wisdom newsletter
,,,,Echoes of Silence: Awakening the Meditative Spirit
*related page:**the child self / playing
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If you accept no easily, if you accept defeat easily, then you're probably not going to be a success. But if you see defeats as challenges and as opportunities to change someone's mind, then I think you've got a better shot at reaching whatever goal it is you've set for yourself -- whether it's a job as a television broadcaster or being a dentist."
Deborah Norville [Eternelle Magazine, Spring 1998] ,,,,,,,,
*related pages:***awareness / thinking***mental health.....~ ~ ~ ~
Dana was in her thirties when she came to my workshop because she was experiencing what she called
a "free-floating sense of dissatisfaction" with her job. She enjoyed the high-level position she held at a large
computer company, but a small voice in her heart whispered to her that there was more.She had achieved each and every goal she had set before her, including promotions, raises, and even a
much-coveted window office, yet she was not fulfilled.As Dana talked, I picked up on phrases like "I should feel happy" and "I look successful but I feel like a failure."
So I asked Dana point blank what would make her feel like a success. She paused for less than fifteen seconds
before blurting out "being able to bring my dog to work."It seems that Dana had always had a vision in her mind of being able to bring her beloved dog, Bodhi, with her
to work. She had once visited a friend at her friend's small boutique advertising agency and was delighted to see
the agency owner's schnauzer greeting clients at the door.To Dana, being able to bring her dog to work signified autonomy; it meant one of two things: Either she had
climbed high enough on the corporate ladder that she was beyond policies, or she was running her own company
where she could establish her own rules.Deciding between the two was not difficult for her, and Dana is now happily running her own web design business,
with Bodhi snoozing contentedly under her desk.
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More than 200 of Walt's choicest sayings ... compiled by Dave Smith, the 60-year-old archivist
at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, which houses Walt's papers and other Disneyana."It was actually put together about 30 years ago as an internal document," Smith said of the collection
of Disney's observations on everything from sequels (he didn't like them) to women as critics
("If the women like it, to heck with the men."). And because Disney was frequently asked the secret
of his success, it is no surprise to read, among Walt's explanations:"I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify--and never miss an angle."
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Lavorare é necessario per mangiare
"Successful people know how to create support for their efforts.
Unsuccessful people keep themselves isolated. Failing to build a support system
for your career is a serious form of self-sabotage, especially in the entertainment industry..."
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"The rules for work are changing. We're being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are,
or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other. ...These rules have little to do with what we were told was important in school; academic abilities
are largely irrelevant to this standard. The new measure.. focuses instead on personal qualities,
such as initiative and empathy, adaptability and persuasiveness."
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"Almost all of us fear our potentials ... Generally, fear's message
is that we're not yet ready to be, do or have what we want.The way out of this dilemma is through a change of mind about
ourselves -- not simply the gaining of technical skills or textbook
knowledge." Marsha Sinetar
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Anybody can be an inventor. It has absolutely nothing to do with how much education or how many degrees you have after your name. It's a mind-set. When an inventor sees something unusual or something that is a disappointing result, they don't just throw it out and start over. They say, 'Hey, what happened here? Why did it happen? What does it mean? What might it be good for?' chemist Patsy Sherman, who with partner Sam Smith invented Scotchgard in the early 1950s
from series: "Women Inventors" by Susan Casey, LA Times, March 8 2002 / photo from National Inventors Hall of Fame
*book:*Women Invent : Two Centuries of Discoveries That Have Shaped Our World by Susan Casey
~ ~ ~ ~Success for a creative person can be tremendous. Not just in money, but in creative freedom.
Look at the list of highest-paid entertainers and entrepreneurs -- they're all people who don't
fit any mold, but they're also people who used that fact to their benefit. (Steve Jobs of Apple
Computer instantly comes to mind.)You can do it, too, in your own way, on your own time, reaching your own goals.
Unmire yourself from the myths about creative people. Don't be afraid to look at your
strengths and weaknesses. Face the fact that traditional business management, which is
left-brain, logical, and linear (not to mention rigid, boring, and counterproductive),
doesn't work for you.It isn't much fun, and if it isn't at least a little bit of fun, you're not going to do it.
It's that simple. If it's not fast, fun, flexible, and easy, you are less likely to embrace it.
Be willing to work within a system--as long as it's one you create and one that works
with you as well as for you.
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Work satisfaction? Life satisfaction? Many of us surrendered those to job descriptions, family expectations, professional titles -- all in return for predictability. We didn't know better. As we return to questions of satisfaction and happiness, let's look at a basic truth: Until we live our life purpose, we are not living our life. We are living someone else's life.
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"The highest art form is really business. It is an extremely creative form and can be more creative
than all the things we classically think of as creative.In business, the tools with which you're working are dynamic: capital and people and markets and ideas.
(These tools) all have lives of their own. So to take those things and to work with them and reorganize them
in new and different ways turns out to be a very creative process."Wayne Van Dyck, founder ofWindfarms, Ltd. [quoted in chapter one of book Creativity In Business]
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