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Why do you drag yourself out of bed five or six (or seven) days a week, rush to get ready, and go to work? Why do you brave the weather, fight the traffic, jockey for a parking space, and walk into that office every day? Why do you wade through an overflowing email inbox, shuffle stacks of reports, and sort endless voice messages? Why do you smile at that person who never smiles back, congratulate the coworker who stole credit for your project, and endure the breakroom gossip? Do you have those days where you really wonder why?
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Are you looking for a new job? … If you’re employed (by others, not self-employed), a high percentage of you have just landed a job, are looking for a job, or will be looking for a job in the near-term. I won’t share all the statistics that exist regarding the “job market”, but suffice it to say that people change jobs nearly as often as they change houses. Maybe the two are correlated (a bit of cause and effect).
I was working on a section of a course I am preparing for Mid-Atlantic Christian University to be taught this fall — you can find more information at www.macuniversity.edu — This was the first time I have added a voice-over sound file to a presentation that I uploaded to SlideShare.net. So, I thought I’d share it with you as this week’s post.
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One of the biggest challenges for young leaders today is that they don’t understand how much influence they have on other people. When I work with people in their teens, 20s, and even 30s, it is not uncommon for them to tell me, “I don’t really have any influence over what other people do in my organization.” For teens, the context is school, sports, church, a fast-food job, or some club. For adults, the context is usually one of their first “real” jobs in a developing career. While the contexts are different, the problem is the same: they don’t understand how much influence they have over others.
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Do you know everything? If you don’t, you probably know some people who THINK they know everything. … On the one hand, we know that we don’t know everything. On the other, we sometimes act as if we do. Right?
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