More and more people are getting to conclusion that qualitative education and self-development have the direct influence on their life. This blog will show the newest approaches in understanding professions in the era of ideas.
Все більше людей доходять до висновку, що саморозвиток і добра освіта неодмінно впливають на якість життя. В цьому блозі я покажу новий підхід до розуміння нових професій, та які уміння цінуються в ері ідей.
Every society has its own way to develop it's ideas. An initiative that rose from the Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine now is trying its recipe in Kiev, where the scale is different.
Why should we believe in its success:
- everyone can become an co-owner
- everyone can decide for what project 80 % of income will be invested
- the design in appearance of the restaurant is also very important in rebranding process of simple cafe, with only one aim - to stuff the stomach but feed the brain and (CSR)
- DNA of being a part of the local community is implanted too
It is also a test for a society, whether it will support or leave the initiative for time and others to do it.
In the end of 2017 we will check the capital readineness to support the regional initiatives.
Knowing languages is all about making the first step in building intercultural bridges. Every language due to its historical way acquired some weight in politics, economy, geography, diplomacy - more. The tools we can use in getting what we want are growing in numbers like mushrooms after rain - e.g. www.eduget.com
But the main point stays in the fact that in this world of constant conflicts, misunderstanding each person should speak at least 2 languages so he or she will be able to see and test some event or fact from different sides. To prove this point it will be enough to check 2 or 3 version of one event in WIKI. The world is at war and the versions of stories are the battlefield. To my humble opinion, the non-verbal language is missing from the above-mentioned rank, as well as performance talk.
Today world is a fast running pace ship that is running so fast that it is destroying old models of business, of social interactions, as well as technological blast into every minute of our lives.
Blue ocean strategy is one of many others strategies to keep whirling world spinning.
Now we can search and feel the gaps like has done one smart guy - link
- it is a nice way to categorize business models by the sphere of influence
- grid everything - method is like a map for those who are in search)
- start feeling gaps - it is all about giving start uppers the light
Nowadays making projects requires new approaches that will definitely crash into the reality. People tend to do the job, tend to freelance on some company and want to make their work visible nice. Several weeks ago I met a freelance front end designer that are placing all her quarterly papers on invoices etc in the box from shoes. The world is becoming different when people tend to change their points of view at the same things.
In the new Era the term "business" will be changed to something new, so in order to open e new business - we will need to use new terms, as well as new tools, new people should already get prepared to live in the new environment. Let us imagine - how to live on Mars? No Air, No water on a surface, no fast food around the corner ...
To my humble opinion, word "business" will be substituted with PROJECT.
To move from one place to another - is a deadline oriented project where new conditions require new axon neuron connections
To buy or build a house - another money demanding or new skill project
To raise a healthy child - is time and understanding project
Most of the people tend to organize their lives so that things were running smoothly as possible. Though we were all prepared to live on factories style urban places, work from 9 till 17 etc. We need something new in education, new money equivalent, in style of work and in the way we spend our time on family building, creating new traditions.
In book Creativity by Catmull, the brain trust technique is used to work productively by admitting failures and creating a culture of trust, not fear in a managerial work.
I would stress the following spheres to be taught and promoted:
- visual design thinking methods
- small team group work like start-ups - where all patents are open
- a critic, a leader a cheerleader in the teams
- interdisciplinary learning - the new challenge from Universities
- cultural hubs where a new discourse about the place and role of a "nation", its culture or its input in world development - sharing economy
- stress on philosophy - where knowing nature of a person is an essential tool
Failure is a necessary evil. [Creativity Inc. E.Catmull]
Failure is not an option [W.Klitschko's moto]
It is not just OK to fail, it's imperative to fail [Seth, Silicon Valley]
Studying at university is the time when you are prepared to get into the professional world with ammunition of knowledge - the right time to get used to coping with failure. Knowing who is your best friend starting small steps in adult life.
There is an anecdote: Why did he go to study at MA studies, in day time form - He definitely is running away from adult life). More on searching the life meaning on the next video about a teacher and golf balls.
In Pixar, there is Pixar University that allows stuff to study different subjects that foster creativity. (like ballet, sculpting, filmmaking etc.)The main idea of this organization is the atmosphere where you will definitely develop like a specialist.
The Marshmellow Challenge is a very good example of the old educational system that teaches most of the people to search for answers without letting oneself to make a mistake. This experiment allows any teacher to check if their followers are apt to risk by experimenting and trying at every stage not on the final one when there is no time.
The main impetus in working further Elon Musk saw when he had a failure in trying to get the rocket to the platform in Ocean.
Modern societies are becoming more like groups in Facebook. Let us has a close look at one famous author of a TV show about cars - Drivetube
This 'tribe' is not positioning itself as a mass culture but rather than a group of the same interests. Even its motto suggests something hidden from others: SEE WHAT'S INSIDE_ This is our home. This is where we live. This is where we make the world pass in a blur.
The only currency one has to pay is attention, by letting in your world their world of fast cars etc. Also, the profile with an email address is to be shared in exchange to get the fresh news, updates, testing cars.
If we take closer to the research of Dr. M. Kosinski, our data can be more informative than our family. Such kind of information and campaigned that gather data about users are only tools in knowing clients better to sell them a 'better' service or product or to 'suggest' it.
There is one philosopher that suggested that only the heroes of time will save the world. The role of the education, both formal and informal at home has a great role in finding the fire inside children.
By raising information about blood donations people in the movement - bloodyforeigners.org.uk, people change society opinion to positive. As well as project - tabletochki.orgthat is gethering money for sick children.
With the appearance of new technologies a modern man has many free slots of his time. No more night watching against predators or searching for wood to heat the hut. This led to the phenomenon that an average man needs motive to do something like go to gym, or travel around the city. Sarah's motivational tatoo packis another small visual motivator that is trying to raise money at Kickstarter.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. H. Ford
There are many ways to plan your life: do not plan or make at least some plan.
Let us focus on service - www.lifetracker.io
it has Maslow's taste of work-life balance
it has modern up to date interface
it has artificial intelligence with version 1.0
it's main aim to make something happen by changing the behavior of an individual
All and everywhere are actively promoting self-development and self-science. So following Adizes' ideas if there is a need a person can learn everything and change him or herself. Like we have in portal - www.4brain.ru
Starting from childhood we have dreams, but in the run of life cycles, we tend to forget them. Project, like Dream&Do makes maps that help to visualize ideas, make some short & long term plans.
In education marketing plays a big role. Every service in the modern world, from buying socks in a shop to ordering tickets on a vacation, we follow the customer journey. We google it, we ask friends, we compare and read feedback. But the main reason we are buying one or another service is its attractiveness. Most of the people were taught that if it is advertised, so it was worth of something.
Another exampleof a famous classic player in a metro station in shattered clothes barely earned 50 $, while with a Stradivarius violin and music hole, the cheapest ticket cost 100 $.
Without self-marketing any professional, that is eager to go on freelance is doomed to earn a penny for real talent. In that case, all art created with the promotion will lose its free beauty, due to Kant.
To my mind, every faculty at every university should teach students to self-promote themselves:
- by knowing how to talk in front of the audience
- by knowing its "price" on the market, in other countries
- be becoming a better student of yourself - the notion of lifelong learning (taken from Bensky "Making ideas happen")
Continuing the warfare theme I found a great person - Brent Gleeson, who after a service in army become a motivational leader and coach, using methods that easily break all limits. - www.brentgleesonspeaker.com
Another interdisciplinary approach in educating leadership in management is motivational and at the same time entertainment video of the conductor of Boston Philarmonic Orchestra - Benjamin Zender.
Further reading - Al Ries & Jack Trout “Marketing Warfare”
Every company if it is universally known is taking some responsibility. It has to:
bring some social input, like emotions during common dinner
create new purposes in its goods or services
show that this company is giving not only sales us stuff
IKEA is sharing for free its Kitchen in the center of a City. It shows its products: furniture, utensils, the new ways of cooking. A family size table or friends size are simple and brings us the notions of how to spend our free time. This is a very important for urban citizens, where the limited living space makes it not affordable for a majority.
There is a good book Amateurs Get Angry With Clients.Professionals Educate Them by Paul Jarvis.
That shows how to treat your clients and without a trustworthy and real philosophy, any business will fail in 1,2, 10 years.
This method will help you and your company or organization to pick up the right and loyal clients, that will become eventually friends to you and you should invest not only time but attention to your friendship, or it will fall apart.
In conclusion, everything you do, you should give it first and let your clients probe it, to rate it, or to like it if it is worthy.
