In this week’s newsletter, we cover the following:
Art The Janitor: Leverage Your Competencies: Yours, The Business’, Your People
The Future of Careers: How Technology will Impact the Job Market (in case you missed it!)
Authentic Achievements with Special Guest Isabel Kelly
Art The Janitor: Leverage Your Competencies: Yours, The Business’, Your People
The Secrets and True History of Successful People. No Hype – No Arrogance – Just The Hard-core Tools To Succeed From Two World-class Entrepreneurs.
Positive Personal Power Series II is supported by Steven J. Manning’s Pillars Of Success And Philosophies of life, from his millions of business and life miles, and tens of billions of revenue that he has generated thus far!
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Core competencies
Understand and be faithful to core competencies.
Competencies are not to be confused with self-confidence, ambition, intelligence or brain-power.
– monkeys flying space shuttles
– cobbler performing brain surgery – cheap tv.
1. Of you and your business
First, a couple of thoughts on what Steven J. Manning defines as tangential competencies
– do not be seduced by the mirage of diversification
– how many Fortune 100’s have gone hell-bent on diversification in the 80s? What happened?
Just because you make great cars or build skyscrapers or make hyper-sophisticated and nose-bleed expensive drugs, does not mean you can efficiently run a string of laundries in southern Alabama.
— grass is always greener on the other side until you get there and discover is astro-turf
— somebody has to manage those shiny new objects.
— your crew will not be able to resist “running those better”, making big changes, and, ultimately developing that business by adding a chain of clothing stores. All good and well until your core staff has to grow and spend inordinate time fixing the core business that by definition will have started to stagnate because so many execs. Have become mesmerized by the new shining penny in the company’s coffers.
2. Steven’s experience in competencies … As a young and already driving the truck of our business exec.
– – his boss – 20 years older
— “protect the core business, he named that “THE MOTHER.”
— would not let Steven explore most of the non-core opportunities that he brought to him
3. Of your people
That is an elegant proposition. How do you recognize hidden talent? Competencies that are not obvious? And capitalize on those.
Meet your people!
A. Humbly Steven’s experience walking through the production facilities, multiple buildings, at 6:15 am, 4:30 pm and 3:00 am for weeks, until he was able to touch and feel the physical aspects of operations. And most importantly, meet a lot of people, among who were hidden talents and competencies.
Not to be confused with education and experience.
Just raw brain power and willingness, even eagerness to raise their hands with a resounding yes I will when most people would remain silent. Or to be more accurate, rose to the occasion when pressed into service.
A. The story of the kids who took over big operating units after the Friday the 13th event ….
B. Art the janitor
C. Alecsandra and dice and Amazon and NFL.
More insights in the interview; originally posted here.
The Future of Careers: How Technology will Impact the Job Market (in case you missed it!)
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Authentic Achievements with Special Guest Isabel Kelly
In this episode, I am delighted to be joined by Isabel Kelly. Isabel founded Profit with Purpose in 2015 to work with companies who are ready to develop and implement authentic, well-governed social impact strategy, aligned to their core business and values. In 2022 she co-founded ESG Experts with Jo Goddard, CEO of Green & Good Consulting, to combine their offerings for companies looking for full environmental, social and governance strategy.
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She is a non-executive director at purpose-driven AIM-listed tech company TPXimpact where she Chairs the ESG Committee and the RemCo, and is a Trustee at Big Give, the UK’s largest match-funding charity.
From 2002 she set up Salesforce Foundation internationally, and ran it for 12 years, including implementing an innovative revenue-generating model enabling Salesforce.org to become self-sustaining through discounted sales to nonprofits. She is a careers advisor for MBA students at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. The first twelve years of her career were spent at Oxfam and Amnesty International. You can find out more about Isabel at www.profitwithpurpose.co.uk or connect with her on social at https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelkel…
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