Most of the management and leadership literature on the market, in my humble opinion, is a bunch of highly specialized, slickly marketed, fear mongering crap. At best, it is light entertainment. At worst, following this well intentioned dreck can create highly destructive systems in your organization.
In the wilderness, there are a few voices (very few) who will lead you (kicking and screaming) in the right direction. I will introduce you to one today.
The subject area is work. What is work? And why is work so important that it must be done?
We will start this discussion by talking about a job. Let me introduce you to Lee Thayer and the Leader’s Journey, On Getting a Job.
Some of my thoughts tomorrow. -TF
The reason youngsters are looking for a job and not for career is the fact that they understand importance of money and not that of a career – especially in their initial years.
In fact even I was pondering with this very question some time back and my thoughts are captured at http://www.alagse.com/hr/hr4.php
The focus of organizations must be on designing careers. Emphasis must be on career at every point starting from recruitment, training, appraisals, lateral moves, advancement and so on and so forth
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