HeyJaredFrancis J. Kong
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The fear of being obsolete (opens the original)
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The millennials coined a term called FOMO, or fear of missing out. Today, mid- and senior-level managers, as well as more senior business owners, are now going through FOBO: Fear of being obsolete. Because nobody wakes up one morning and discovers they have become irrelevant overnight. Irrelevance is not a heart attack. It is high blood pressure: silent, gradual and ignored until something breaks. Fast Company recently ran a piece by Featured.com, “12 Signs You’re Becoming Irrelevant at Work.” T
Financial resilience (opens the original)
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A career professional narrated his financial life story. He said he spent his 30s earning well and his 40s discovering that earning well and building well are two entirely different skills. And when a business setback arrived, you know, the kind that comes without announcement and stays longer than expected, he found out the hard way that a good salary is not the same thing as financial resilience. He is not unusual. In fact, he is the norm. Most people in the workforce today were never formally
Opportunity and opportunism (opens the original)
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There is a word that gets used constantly in the business world, celebrated in keynotes, printed on motivational posters and cited as the defining quality of every great entrepreneur. We build entire economies around it. The best companies, we are told, are the ones that see opportunity before anyone else. The best leaders are the ones who move fastest when the window opens. There is almost nothing in the business vocabulary that carries more prestige than being called someone who recognizes and
The futility of ‘if only’ (opens the original)
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Two simple words in English, “if only,” might seem harmless at first, but they can quietly keep us from growing and moving forward. These words often show up in our conversations and thoughts as wishes or regrets: “If only I had a better break,” “If only I had more money,” “If only I chose the right partner,” “If only I worked for the right company,” or even, “If only I had better parents or more education.” These phrases might seem like simple wishes, but they actually hide something more serio
The leadership aperture (opens the original)
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There has been a quiet change in the meaning of leading. For a long time, we favored the person who had the answers, the one who knew the most, made up his mind the quickest and seldom showed any uncertainty. We placed our trust in the confident voice among us. I came across an article by Marcel Schwantes in Inc. magazine that expressed something I have been feeling for a long time. The competitive advantage the leader of to-morrow might have isn’t necessarily knowing more than everyone else; it
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