| Some 2K10 Goals by God's special grace n power |
- Paint entire house
- Set up entire downstairs including garage
- Reduce credit card debt by at least $2k
- Pay off any miscellaneous debt
- Most definitely get into a committed relationship
Most definitely send money to mom for a new car- Take time to develop relationships
- At least, 2 patents
- Aggresively work on developing iPhone App dev skills
- Create a webpage for DJing
- Expand my career breadth
- Visit London
- Join Toastmasters
- Create a will and a Power of Attorney 4 Healthcare
- Take complete control of soda drinking
- Work on taking a CPR class
SO, HELP ME GOD!
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| Some 2K7 Goals by God's special grace n power |
Finally buy some Nyja stocksGet a loaded Thinkpad or Sony VaioJoin MentorPlace n consistently mentorPut at least $2K in stocks apart from investment club contr. & 401kTake complete control of coffee
SO, HELP ME GOD!
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| Some 2K6 Goals by God's grace |
Have a white paper publishedWork on increasing payGet to the next band at workHelp renovate mom's placeGive mom n bro at least $*K each for weddingFinally visit Nyja!!!
Take a real estate class
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| My Videos |
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Go Getta. R. Kelly
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| Music I'm Feeling... |
- 2Face
- Ebenezer Obey
- KWAM 1
- Cassandra Wilson
- Pharell
- Ne-Yo
- T.O.K
- Don Moen
- D4L
- Teddy Pendergrass
- ColdPlay
- DMB
- Notorious B.I.G
- Delirious
- Dem Franchise Boyz
- Frank Sinatra
- Evanescence
- All-American Rejects
- Billie Holiday
- Seal
- Obesere
- KEM
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| Books I'm reading... |
Zero DebtThe Millionaire Next DoorThe Street Lawyer- African Women: Three Generations
- Communication, Sex & Money
- The J2EE Tutorial
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| Cities I Have Visited |
- ATL, GA
- Austin,TX
- Detroit, MI
- Houston, TX
- Charlotte, NC
- Corning, NY
- NYC, NY
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Friday, March 03, 2006
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The need for great adaptability skills in the Corporate world
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In elementary school back in Nigeria, I remember Mr Opata (my great Ghanaian teacher. For a strange reason, my school had only Ghanaian teachers) teaching us the characteristics of humans in our elementary science class. One of the characteristics among others was the ability of humans to adapt. Human beings are supposed to be very adaptive creatures. We, naturally, adapt to our environments. In my few years in the corporate world, especially with my current company, I have come to discover that there is nowhere where this characteristic is put to use as much as in the corporate world.
Moving from one department (or organization) to the other, either voluntarily or due to business needs, is so much of a norm that being in the same organization for years makes you an oddity except you're working with the government. Actually, another way to put this is to say that having the same manager for years is a rarity. I have been with my company for 3yrs and in those 3yrs I have had about 5 different managers - I am currently on my 5th one now.
This requires a lot of adaptive power. I must say that this can make it difficult for you to get what you are due – promotion, pay raise, etc. Just as soon as you are proving your abilities and skill prowess to one manager, you get moved to another one and everything you did while you were under one manager cannot be adequately communicated to your new manager when it is time for appraisals. When you are under one manager throughout the year and the same manager that got to see your work first-hand throughout the year is the one that does your appraisal, it makes it easier for you to receive your work's due. That is one not-so-good experience I have had in the corporate world. It was especially painful with my last manager (4TH one) when as soon as he sat me down to tell me about how he thinks I deserve more and he will work on getting me a pay increase, guess what? I was moved to another manager immediately. Thank God my new manager (5th one) had seen some of my work under my last manager, if not, I would not have gotten the pay-raise that I ended up getting.
One thing this has taught me is that, as a corporate employee (I am not sure if this is the case with government workers too), one must learn to adapt very rapidly. One must learn to do one's work with all diligence and perfection ALWAYS. One must learn to get to know one's new manager and colleagues very quickly or in other words, suck up to your managers and colleagues very quickly. I know some people argue that you don't have to be your colleagues' friends to move far in the coroporate world. True that, but I believe you have to have a very cordial relationship with them at least. Anyway, adapting the afore-mentioned ways could keep your appraisals up always no matter how much you are moved around.
That's just one of many ways among several others. Great adaptive skills is needed especially when it comes to learning new skills also. In order to keep yourself abreast in most parts of the corporate world, you have to always update your skills. Otherwise, you will find yourself in the fields alone after everyone has left for war. Sometimes, the immeasurable need for the ability to adapt very quickly makes me want to work with the government or something, but hey I think it's definitely a skill worth developing.
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posted by Just Thinking Out Loud!
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