This attitude connected with my parents being entrepreneurs has produced an attitude taking Jack’s approach one step further. After 4 years if you have not moved on or started to change the way a job is performed you are now a negative pull on that job.

Combating this negative pull is learning. It’s been my experience employees’ fall into two categories – those that learn and horde and those that learn and share. Sadly most fall into the hording category. I read a statistic (which I’m probably misquoting) that we only tap into approximately 10% of the brains full potential. And for the most part we sit around the office and compete with each other trying to see which one of us knows the most. One of the greatest avenues for learning often goes untapped – It’s our coworkers.

The ability to share knowledge – we are trained from our school days that sharing what you learn is cheating. For most organizations this translates into stove piping – with most people walking around in fear they will lose their footing if the guy in the next cube can perform or knows everything they know.

The real crime in corporate America is that employees are usually rewarded with promotions by simply being the employee that stayed in the job the longest. The result being that any change is met with opposition often by managers that view their success directly related to not changing.

So I say all of his too say we need to continue our learning in especially in our specific area of choice. Not that we don’t also become well rounded by taking in knowledge of other areas – that’s often where innovation originates.

Know your field, be able to bridge the old and the new understanding, how technology will impact us today and anticipate the next trend.

Be in a position where your resume reflects current thinking not a laundry list of prior accomplishments.

One world govt. requires a one world religion.

The churches have been led to believe the green movement is godly, it’s exactly the opposite.

Canadians need to wake up and wake up fast.

Please read The Green Agenda found on the page bar of my blog.
It is the best I have found on the subject.
Read the words of the men that would rule the world and remove the Christian faith.
Please-read The Green Agenda.
http://www.windfarms.wordpress.com

Enjoy your day-very interesting times ahead

If you are involved in the church I would like to be in touch.

Ron

Some little sayings that surround this:

Don’t mark up a book. Come back to it if you’ve underlined, highlighted or made marginalia and that’s all you’ll see. Come back to an unmarked page and your intervening experience will cause new insights to arise from your rereading.

Take it in then let it sit. I alternate between bursts of reading and taking in information, then doing nothing with it. Later, the pieces begin to click into place and form a new whole.

All things in their time. Many books I have picked up and just couldn’t get going: put them back down. Their time is not now, and I learn nothing from them until their time is right.

Finally, keep breaking out of your groove. I’m coming up to 35 years in IT and I read practically nothing about it. I’m around it enough not to need to. Instead, go see art, write poetry, read a new subject. These open up the mental pathways to make learning possible (even when that’s not what you’re trying to learn).

I guess the point is, that unless you’ve suffered a specific head injury, ‘learning’ is the one skill that we never really lose. Yes, it’s easier to learn things when we’re younger, but it never becomes impossible – even though it can become more difficult.

Cheers
Peter

Why is it that in business (and I think this is true even in the distant past), greed and fear so often overpower courage and ethics?