IS YOURS A CAREER OR A CALLING

Yesterday I spoke to a CEO who makes a clear distinction between a career and a calling, and between a job and work. One of the reasons for his company's huge success it that staff identify with higher values and a deeper ethos than required for mere employment. Indeed "values" is much more than "religion". Religion only interprets values, but values are displayed in characteristic behavior.

If you are having challenges in your work perhaps you need to examine whether you simply have a job or whether you have a calling to work. If yours is just a job, this CEO advises that you return the work tools and leave peacefully before you are called to account for your attitude and (poor) performance.

In other words, a job is never about, "me and what I can get out of it" but rather it is about, "others and what I can do for them". The moment your feelings change from the latter to the former you have regressed from a calling into a career. A career is short term a calling is forever.

Allan

 

DO YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO

DO YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO

If you have to be paid to do what you do, you are the company of the most miserable of men.

Allan

of LEADERSHIP & LAW

LEADERSHIP & LAW

It is no longer meaningful to talk about leadership as a general subject. It should be defined in terms of type, form, substance and purpose. Like the various forms of law, its benefits must be explicit and specific.

Allan

PERSIST: NO ONE CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE

PERSIST: NO ONE CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE

Persistence makes heroes of both cowards and those with courage. Persist no one will know the difference. It is victory that makes heroes.

Allan

BANK ON YOUR DETERMINATION

You can bank on determination because it levels mountains and will never render you bankrupt.Only you can empty the account.

VIOLENCE & RELIGION

VIOLENCE & RELIGION

Violence is not a religious virtue. It judges and executes it's would be converts.

TRANSFORM YOURSELF

TRANSFORM YOURSELF

Transformation is not a moment; it is a momentum. Something that had stopped is now moving. It is not a state of being it is a continuing pace. This is a hard thing to start up in an organization and all too easy to lose as a person. Most organizations have never really begun and only some people think about it. Most of us, believe it or not, are quite comfortable with what we are; otherwise, we would have done something about it a long time ago.

Allan