Forget certifications. Forget technical skills. Forget high-priced degrees. The three skills that are needed most in the new world of work are initiative, creativity, and the ability to think. Demonstrate those skills and employers will come running.
It’s the later, thinking, that we investigate today.
Thinking – it’s the new white meat. It’s actually a yellowish gelatinous meat as you look at the brain, but that’s not important now.
We are no longer cogs in a wheel. We are no longer told to rinse and repeat. We are expected to initiate, perform, and accomplish.
Systems may be established, frameworks may be outlined, structures may be defined, but there is flexibility within those confines to get the job done.
And you are expected to find a way to make it happen.
Thinkers corroborate diverse data to get an overall design.
Thinkers search for deeper meaning in the swampy sea of statistics.
Thinkers take the silver platter that is handed to them, melt it down, and create an elaborate candelabrum.
As more transformational leadership practices enter the workplace, more thinking will be expected. If you examine the four factors that compose transformational leadership, one is “intellectual stimulation.” It is the idea that leaders allow their followers to think independently and they encourage creativity. In other words, transformational leaders believe humans are thinking beings.
Are you ready to think in this new world of work?
QUESTION FOR YOU –
What’s on your mind?
SOMETHING FOR YOU –
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Todd Brockdorf
Better than Average Guy
Author, Speaker, Consultant
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