5 Career Development Lessons From A Baby

1. 5 Career Development Lessons From a Baby?

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4. 5 Career Development Lessons From a Baby? If you don't like analogies between infants and the workplace, then stop reading. But if you are hypnotized by a baby, then I share with you 5 lessons on career development from the infant (baby).

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6. 5 Career Development Lessons From a Baby? 5. Freedom is counterintuitive. Locating a baby’s screams is easy. Identifying that he is flailing about in his crib, also easy. Knowing that the solution is to wrap him as securely as a gift, priceless and counterintuitive. Turns out that the flailing is keeping him awake. So it goes with a career. Is freedom pursuing your dreams, or keeping your current job (and paycheck)?

7. 5 Career Development Lessons From a Baby? 4. Doing what you know isn't always helpful. Baby likes to grab his hair. He pulls harder. It's all he knows. Baby isn't aware this is his own hair. It's cute. And isn't it just like the employee relying on skills that expired last millennium, the union expecting laid off workers to keep getting paid, the financier insisting "Now is the time to buy!" or the CEO taking a private jet to ask for cash?

8. 5 Career Development Lessons From a Baby? 3. Success is impossible without communication. A moist diaper leads to screaming. Changing diaper: more screaming. I tell baby, "Please don't wake mommy." And so, as the final tab on the new diaper is being closed, he lets loose a wail that sounds as if he's being skewered stem-to-stern with a kebab blade. An instant later, happy baby, and awake mommy. He's a baby, he doesn't understand what I (or his mom) want. But how many times at the office do we expect customers to know why our new product is important? Or expect that other employees know we'd help them if they'd just give us public acknowledgment? Or expect that anyone anywhere really understands what we do all day?

9. 5 Career Development Lessons From a Baby? 2. Where are we going and why? Put baby on his belly and he starts to try to crawl. Legs flail. Arms thump. In moments, he's moved...nowhere he's an infant. And he's in tears. He doesn't know where he's trying to get to, but he's upset he can't get there. When it comes to my career, I've been guilty of the same. Wanting to move on, just because. The classic "grass is greener" is because we don't know what we don't know. But it doesn't mean change for it's own sake is going to make us happier. Or get us...somewhere.

11. 5 Career Development Lessons From a Baby? Action note Men, women, younger and older are equal like infant. The turning point is “learning” which can never finish till your death time. So try to learn from your infant too and develop your skills.

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