Reinventing Jobs

A Trust Fall

A lot has been written about the agriculture age, the industrial revolution, spurt in the service sector, information age, knowledge age, and Industry 4.0. However, it is important to note that we are completing a full circle. The farmers, the carpenters, the goldsmiths of the pre-industrial age were self-employed. The education system of the 1900s was designed to create obedient employees. People who did not like to make mistakes, and who did not ask questions. The demerits of our education system are highlighted by Sir Ken Robinson in his book – The Element.

We have been brainwashed to believe that security is more important than freedom. Human beings learn from mistakes, and our education system punishes us for making mistakes. It makes us compete with each other for grades. Then when we step out in the real world, we are taught that it is important to cooperate and collaborate. This contradiction exists at every level. Our economic theories focus on the shortage of resources, and the need for controlling people and resources rather than creating value.

Our education system will not allow us to develop our entrepreneurial skills. It is, therefore, important that we do it ourselves. Here are a few things, we parents can do:

• Give our kids the freedom to think and choose. Let them make mistakes and learn from them. 
• Many things can be done without money (resources). We need to encourage our kids to take up assignments that can enhance their skills (social work for example).
• Discussing with our kids about opportunities rather than pointing out the shortage of resources.
• Letting them get involved in team events.
• Making them responsible for their choices. 

Things are fundamentally changing. Secure high paying jobs are bound to diminish. Wages are going to stagnate. It is, therefore, important to develop the entrepreneurship mindset in our children. Some of you would have heard of the trust fall. It is a team-building exercise in which a person deliberately allows themselves to fall, trusting the members of a group to catch them. It is important that we as parents, create that safety net for our children.  

• Subodh Gadgil (May 2, 2020

https://www.subsay.in/a-trust-fall/

Influence by Robert Cialdini - A 2 min Video Summary

Some useful links of short courses

Lockdown is not easy for many of us. Yet, I am trying to make use of my time to learn things that awed me but I side-casted as I couldn't find enough time. I can no longer procrastinate.

Mindmap - a wonderful short course by Tony Bonaz himself. I could play the videos at a speed of 1.5X as I knew some things already.

Read 100 Books a year - a free weekend workshop by Pavan Bhattad that changed my thoughts on speed reading and memory building I have been following from other sources.

freepdfconvert.com - one of the most wonderful lifetime subscription that pays off regularly in my work and studies both. It's one of the very few handy tools that makes me quicker than many others around.

LinkedIn Education - Some wonderful techno-managerial courses I came across, admired, shared, and bookmarked.
Business Law for Managers - Jo-Ná A. Williams
SQL Tips, Tricks, & Techniques - Ben Sullins
Tableau and R for Analytics Projects - Curtis Frye
Enterprise Architecture in Practice - David Swersky

Exploring Infographics - 

Learning new words used in SMS.

Making most of this lockdown@home.

Business Law for Managers

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PMP - draw all i/o in a go..

It takes more than 3 hour to be able to make a 3 min ITTO chart in exam and before that of course ..

Hope you know how to draw an every day chart for PMP study -
http://withinaccess.blogspot.in/2015/04/itto-3-minute.html

Once u r used to this chart , u wouldn't even need to write short names of 47 processes.. only their placeholders will be enough...

Now come to Rita Mulcahy's advice to start with o/p and then i/p which makes the o/p and finally the items (tools) needed to convert the i/p to the o/p..

as you can recall all 47 names now, do u think how easy would be to recall almost all the o/p for 47 processes?
why don't u make the chart of 47 processes on 3 A4 size sheets and start recollecting the o/p for all of them in whichever sequence you can? Hint - pick any column at a time..say I then C then P and then E and at last M...

initially u can refer to PMBOK index in the link I mentioned above...

Once u r good at writing o/p for all 47 processes.. your brain will automatically assign o/p to the short process name..and it will be effortless in just 3 attempts max..

After that u have to repeat same process for i/p but this time u ll recollect o/p name and try to write i/p that make that o/p.. this time u don't write o/p names at all...

again u ll use 3 sheets of A4 size..

at the end of the exercise, u ll come up with something like below images..-

don't bother to read them, just make ur own..

You can leave common i/p and o/p in the process as I did..
here's the list you can ignore -

• CR (with any prefix)
• WPI and WPD
• OPA
• EEF
• project document updates

etc.
there're some shortcuts for all of these..and without that shortcut it's difficult to recollect them in exam..
there are shortcuts for everything that looks hard in drawing i/o in above processes...so don't lose heart if 3 attempts don't seem enough for a few of them...

For shortcuts you can refer to Andy Crowe's site (it's paid but u can get 7 days free access on buying his book...7 days aren't enough for those many shortcuts and unlimited questions that resemble exam ones)

Btw did u notice most of the time, there was a link as o/p of one process was forming i/p of another...only some of the i/p were new...which were they?

Here's a list -

• Project SOW
• Business Case
• Seller Proposals
• Agreements

etc. as you can guess they are coming from outside world of the 47 processes..