The era of transformation or orientation?

World is quickly changing through its own cycle and knowing your place especially in career world is really crucial and important.
Facing Globalization and digitization has made very important and challenging to find the proper career that fits to you, and finding the best position sometime is very difficult, stressful but on the other side very crucial decision to achieve success and professional improvement.
In the article "The Key to Choosing the Right Career" by Heidi Grant( published in Harvard Business review https://hbr.org/2013/04/the-key-to-choosing-the-right) it is explained by the author that choosing the career path or changing one, is for most of us a confusing and anxiety-riddled experience.

The rapid change in the work nature due to technology involved developments like Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence , etc. and also innovation, have increased the access to different level of knowledge and made the career paths more complex and difficult to be properly chosen.
Nowadays it is very important to find a way to "survive" to employees replacement by robots and machines, thus making ourselves a "precious asset" in the proper career field, will help to reach this main goal.
How can we find the proper career that fits to our goal of "market survival"?
First of all we need to know what type of job-seeker we are.
Heidi Grant in his above mentioned article made a very interesting division of the types of job-seekers and also the fields of interest they are excelling at, being:

( Cited below from: https://hbr.org/2013/04/the-key-to-choosing-the-right, Heidi Grant, accessed 23.12.2019)

1. Promotion-focused people excel at:

• Creativity and innovation

• Seizing opportunities o get ahead

• Embracing risk

• Working quickly

• Generating lots of options and alternatives

• Abstract thinking

(Unfortunately, they are also more error-prone, overly-optimistic, and more likely to take risks that land them in hot water

      2. Prevention-focused people excel at:

• Thoroughness and being detail-oriented
• Analytical thinking and reasoning
• Planning
• Accuracy (working flawlessly)
• Reliability
• Anticipating problems

(Unfortunately, they are also wary of change or taking chances, rigid, and work more slowly. Diligence takes time.)

Do not follow only passion or inner feelings. Choosing the proper career path is much more than that. It requires lots of research and trainings and also access to lots of information on future career positions that fit with the type of personal orientation you have and also the skills you already have or are on the way to create.

Take care in being informed and updated in new skills and knowledge , to become an added value of an organization , a company or personal entrepreneurship 

Make a map/design of what you can offer with your knowledge and skills so far, what are your strengths and weaknesses with what you have so far. Make research on what are the best positions you can offer the best of you and make you motivated and willing to contribute and also understand properly what you want to improve in order to suit to the best sector you are interested in , being either an employee or a self-employeed.

Be smart to get the chances.

Ortenca

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I want to thank Mr.Melih Arat and everyone of my class mates your posts were very useful for me
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Karam Aly

Predictably Irrational

In this book, the author tries to help you reshape the concept of what makes you and the people around you make the choices. Describing several experiments, the phenomenon of people making the same mistakes time and again in predictable ways is explored, such as buying warranties they do not need, succumbing to peer pressure, and spending more money on expensive indulgences than they budget for. So the main underlying idea throughout the book is that people behave irrationally, but in a predictable manner.

Each of the chapters of the book focuses on one particular irrational way in which people make decisions, describing the experiments that Ariely and his colleagues constructed and carried out to demonstrate the predictability of this behavior. For example, in the first chapter, the author describes how his test subjects could be driven to prefer product A over product B if they were given the choice between A, B, and a similar but inferior version of product A instead of a choice between just A and B. In another chapter on the mysterious power of “free” products, he describes how test subjects who preferred Lindt chocolates to Hershey’s Kisses by roughly 3-to-1 when they were priced at 15 cents and 1 cent respectively, changed their preferences to 1-to-2 when each was discounted by 1 cent. In other words, when priced at 14 cents and 0 cents respectively, people disproportionately changed their preference to the free Hershey’s Kiss, disregarding their preference and the fact that the cost difference in each case—14 cents—is exactly the same. These results lead Ariely to suggest that “free” is a price that causes people to behave irrationally.

The “one main lesson from the research described in this book,” Ariely informs us, “is that we are pawns in a game whose forces we largely fail to comprehend”. Although we may think we are in control of how we make market calculations and economic decisions, he argues, we are actually driven by perceptual reactions, ingrained habits, and “decision illusions” (such as the mysterious power of “free” products) much more than we realize.

The Spirit Level

This virtuous book describes in a very convincing manner that economic equality is good for society. It exposes the falsity of the belief that massive inequalities are a necessary condition for improving the quality of life in contemporary developed societies.

The authors argue that very skewed distributions of income influence in the rise of a large range of social anomalies, with the result that everyone suffers. Inequality in their view is not just bad for the poor, it’s also bad for the rich. Analyzing data from many developed countries it is observed a close relation between the level of inequality in each country (or state) and a range of outcomes: levels of trust, mental illness, life expectancy, infant mortality, obesity, children’s educational performance, number of teenage births, murders, imprisonment rates and social mobility. The higher inequality is, the lower is the trust, the more the mental illnesses are present, the higher are the murder rates and so on.

The main theme in the book is that rather than securing further economic growth, inequality is now the big challenge facing developed societies: for the vast majority of people in affluent countries the difficulties of life are no longer about filling our stomachs, having clear water and keeping warm. Most of us now wish we could eat less rather than more. And, for the first time in history, the poor are generally fatter than the rich.”

The book has many virtues, the chief of which is to provide a mass of empirical evidence that societies with greater equality of income almost always do better than societies with more inequality, on a wide range of indicators.

Made to stick

The book made to stick is written by brothers Chip and Dan Heath. This book suggests empoying the stck approaches in order to create ideas that are sticky  and long lasting. The expains in detail 6 charachteristics of sticky ideas.

• Simple - find the core of any idea. This permits the message to be conveyed and reach the maximum of the target focus group. This because simplification makes the clarification of complexity and consequently makes it easily understood for an unlimited number of people. Once the information arrives to the reader, he should also understand the message conveyed.
• Unexpected — grab people's attention by surprising them.
• Concrete — make sure an idea can be grasped and remembered later.
• Credible — give idea believability.
• Emotional — help people see the importance of an idea. His speech was a personal one, it was not formal justification to protect him from the bad results, and people could feel it.
• Stories — empower people to use an idea through narrative.

All these elements appropriately used, help ideas to be sticky.

The Meatball Sundae

The Meatball Sundae

The author Seth Godin in the Meatball Sundae book talks about the importance of new internet (Social Network) marketing strategies and how these tactics should be applied to a modern,and also growing business model.
The book, however talks at of the new rules of marketing and the fourteen trends that are shaping the way products and ideas are communicated and sold:
• Direct communication and commerce between producers and consumers
• Amplification of the voice of the consumer and independent authorities
• The need for an authentic story as the number of sources increases
• Extremely short attention spans due to clutter
• The Long Tail
• Outsourcing
• Google and the dicing of everything
• Infinite channels of communication
• Direct communication and commerce between consumers and consumers
• The shifts in scarcity and abundance
• The triumph of big ideas
• The shift from “how many” to “who”
• The wealthy are like us
The author in the book talks also about the importance of that social media have the power to amplify word of mouth like never before, and that a product or idea is only going to spread in social networks is if it is truly remarkable (a Purple Cow). Press releases of boring products will never show up.

Elton Dushku

PREDICTABLE IRRATIONAL

This book indicate us what is the effect while decision making and behavioral economics are manipulated by a hidden hand. As far as these two elements are closely related with the needs of people some smarter guys will play with them in order to realize their own ambitions. In order to do this, they shape a framework, create some spaces to leave people understand they are free to choose in a rational way. By other words:

When politics for its own interests will to manipulate the people organize a scenario and appeal them for keeping their eyes opened and oppose democratically or violently as it is the rational way to get rid of without taking into consideration the result of loosing the crowd's control.

In January 21 of 2011, as a response to a corruption affair tape were the Head of Integration Socialist Movement was included, the Head of Socialist party Edi Rama found an opportunity to act and decided to organize a big demonstration. As a result the crowd was left deliberately to get out of the control and the result of this was four innocent dead people. Here I dont want to show who burden the fault of this crime. I want to show why Edi Rama didnt react when taxes rose up, when retirement age was increased from 60 to 65? etc. So concluding ...people must act based on the force of rationality, not with the rational force.

Book 5: Billions of Entrepreneurs

This book analysis the characteristics of two big countries CHINA and INDIA, their potentials in the world economy And a possible collaboration of this two powers that will result into a new world power that will rule all the world. This two countries are havin almost 40% of all world population and a good managing to this two countries strengths will result to an unstoppable power that will grow and grow until infinity. As we may see also in nowadays everything is produced in China, all the technology innovation comes from India, so these two countries have strong position and today in the world but a collaboration of these two may get them faster and safer at the top of the world

Book 4: Predictable Irrational

The main idea of the book is talking about understanding people behavior in some specific situation. In all the time we think that we are making rational choices, but in most of the time without understanding it we are making irrational choices. It happens to all of us that we are changing our perception in fee seconds. It is well known the Chinas products, that all of us say that they are of low quality, and nowadays we buy IPhones that are smart phones of the highest prices that are assembled in china. I think also that all this big marketing world makes all of us do so many irrational choices, they blind us with all their strategies and at the end we are just victims of our irrational choices

BOOK 1: Changing Minds

This book explains the way that a NEW idea has to pass through in order to be implemented and accepted. It is well known that new ideas are very hard to be accepted, but in order to make useful our new idea we have to prepare the people and make them ready to accept it, this is the step that in my opinion is the hardest one and the most important one, because if you prepare people accepting the new idea than you just have to implement it and measure the results. The last to steps are very easy to achieve because they are into the managers hands and they can manage it but the very first one that was about making people ready to accept it, is a very hard job because here we are dealing with a culture that will be created

Book 8:What Got You Here Won't Get You There

This book gives a clear guide to the career development problems that everyone faces when they are taking the next leap in the career. The problems that everyone faces are almost the same because the new position is NEW for them and the problems that will occur will have the same end. In order not to have a bad end the author is giving solution to many of the problems that you will face in the next career leap. It’s a prepreparation of you for the coming critical situations in your career development.This book is useful for everyone not just for high level managers because is every case you see that it could be you in that situation

The Spirit Level

The books is based in a research for many years, from where the author finds out the problems that occur to an unequal society, a society where everything is separated unequally. This phenomena creates a lot of problems not only for poor people but also for the rich ones, because it is clear all of them are living in the same country and the affect on the society can not be neglected by no one. Accept the results of the research the author directs us to solving this problem, in a more friendly way with each other and also a very good plan for the governments to organize a better future solution for this problem.

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
The author in his book addresses a particular audience, successful people who need to make a change to continue to be successful.In his book, Goldsmith lists twenty-one common harmful habits in interpersonal relations. He explains that the higher you go in executive management, the more your problems are behavioral. Some of these behavioral problems are as follows:
1. The need to win to much
2. Making destructive comments
3. Starting sentences with “No,” “But,” or “However”
4. Telling the world how smart you are
5. Speaking when angry
6. Withholding information
7. Clinging to the past
8. Playing favorites among direct-reports
9. An excessive need to be “Me” (or, “I can’t change, that’s just how I am”)
10. Goal obsession
The author writes about challenges tha are also getting executives to understand how they are perceived by others in their work environments, and at home. He separates our personal “perception” into four categories:
1. Public Knowledge (Traits known to others and self)
2. Private Knowledge (Traits known to self but not to others)
3. Blind Spots (Traits known to others but not to self)
4. Unknowable (Traits unknown to others, and not know to self)
Goldsmith says that the most interesting traits to examine and study are 3, the blind spots known to others but not to ourselves. He provides a formula for detecting these traits, examining them, and fixing any negative discoveries. The formula is:
1. Collect feedback from everyone around us, using both deliberate and subtle tactics.
2. Apologize to everyone for any negative traits.
3. Advertise that you are beginning a personal campaign to improve and that you would like their feedback periodically as you work on improvement.
4. Listen to feedback in terms of “what can I do in the future to improve” and not “what did I do wrong in the past” (one is positive, one is negative)
5. Thank people for their suggestions, and don’t disagree with them.
6. Follow-up relentlessly. This is the key to the improvement process taking shape.
Goldsmith also discuss about several topics in his book. One interesting aside is a list of common reasons why goal setting can fail:
1. Time: It takes longer than expected, so it couldn’t be completed.
2. Effort: It’s harder than was expected.
3. Distractions: Nobody expected a “crisis” to emerge that took resources or time away.
4. Lack of Rewards: After they see some improvement, they don’t get enough positive response from others, so they give up.
5. Maintenance: Once a goal is met, there is no fortitude to stick with the pattern that brought success.
I found the most valuable part of Goldsmith’s book to be his formula for collecting feedback about others’ perceptions of us, and how we can affect change within ourselves where needed.

Elton Dushku

Book 9: Meatball Sundae

The book is relating the new technology (Social Network) spread and importance of it and the wrong use of it, by illustrating it with examples. His main idea is that if you want to adapt your self to the last technology, you should not take the technology and make it useful for your product but you should have firstly your product in your focus, understand its need in details and then take action on using the social media for marketing it. So it is seen that it is a very critical point that you shouldn’t pass, because it will be very dangerous, it will be MEANINFULLNESS.

Book 11:The Three Laws of Performance

In this book are presented three steps that in my opinion are understood like......

1, How people perform correlates to how situations occur to them- Here in this point we may prove the theory of relativeness, from where everything that is seen by everyone is understood differently from each of us, this gets us to the result of different actions that are takken from differen point of views.

2.How a situation occurs, arises in language Words are what gives color to a picture, words are what make an action valuable to the way that you want it and also to the level that you want to arise it.

3.Future-based language transforms how situations occur to people. In this step it is explained the wayyou will create the scenario, the new scenario will drive your understanding, so the understanding of the situation determines your position.

All the true stories told in the book makes all the 3 LAWs more understandable and more useful for all of us that are in managing levels or will be in the future....

Book 9 - Future Agenda

This book is a very interesting one, because it makes all of us thing deeper and deeper of the future changes that will appear and how we should deal with them, how will be our solution to them. Its very interesting because it involves us in that particular indicator and makes us think of what could be the solution to that problem.In some case for me it is like Dreaming, because we are building the future according to their predictions and putting ourself in that project and trying to find solutions that will survive us and make us profit from all those situations, Its a very interesting book because make you thing more in long terms rather than just thinking of tomorrow

THE THREE LAWS OF PERFORMANCE

This book is considered to be one of the most important written in many years. The ideas are much larger than we normally see in business books. They aren't tips, tools, or steps, but are in fact laws that govern individual, group and organizational behavior. The case studies are illustrations of organizations bringing out the best in people and in communities. These aren't just companies making a profit, but companies doing well in the world, by any measure. Leaders would be well served to think about these laws and find ways to apply their insights.

This book filled with insights, real-life encounters and experiences shows us how we may do the work of transformation. The authors have written an inspiring, practical book, applicable in the corporate, labor, political, and civil society sectors, that will assist all who seek to rewrite the future of our world.

The Three Laws of Performance are:

1. How people perform correlates to how situations occur to them.
2. How a situation occurs, arises in language.
3. Future-based language transforms how situations occur to people.

Implementing their three "invariable laws" will help you and others perform beyond limits and with integrity. The reasoning is sound, the language is clear, the illustrations are compelling. Seems to be a delightful, informative book for all the readers.

Book 6: The Dragonfly Effect

The books main topic in on the way that people can gain from all this worldwide spread of Social networks, that a lot of people are connected to each other. Here 4 steps are discussed

1.focus on a single goal,

2.grab attention,

3.engage people in a cause and

4.empower them to take action.

In somehow this book reminds me of Made To Stick book, because also here you have to be in the center of peoples attention, you have to be STICKED to their minds, but before this you should have a clear idea, in order that in your way you will do everything to be focused on that and only on that point. In order to get their support after getting their attention you should have a real and a sensitive history that will touch their heart and take them where the problem is. After this comes the last one and form me the most important, EMPOWERING THEM TO TAKE ACTION, the power of words takes place here and in all the other steps, because you should better know how to sell a story rather then having the story.

BOUNCE

Bounce is a very interesting and thought provoking book. It basically argues that for any significantly complex human activity (especially sports like tennis, football and golf, and games like chess) natural talent is of pretty low importance because the wiring of the brain required to succeed can only be achieved through a massive amount of "purposeful" practice.

The end result of this practice is often mistaken for natural talent, but in fact the characteristic most high achievers have in common is a willingness to work harder than their peers and a belief that this hard work will drive greater improvement and success, not a belief in their fixed superiority.

There are a number of compelling and inspiring examples in the book, the most amazing of which is a family of Hungarian chess players whose story has changed the way I look at what is possible for any person to achieve. Woven into this argument are snippets of the author's own story as an internationally ranked table tennis player and Olympian.

There are also whole sections on additional factors behind sporting success such as confidence, faith, nerve and even race, so that the overall sweep of the book's arguments is truly unique, rigorously argued and highly thought provoking. Although anchored mostly in the world of sports, it is hard to define this as just a sports book, as the ideas apply to many other walks of life as well.

Book 10: Bounce

This Book is discussing about a very delicate and very powerful topic of life, in simple words this book is giving answer to the question if Talents are born like that or they are been made through long hard working hours. This interesting number, 10 000, is the number of hours that someone should complete in order to become a talent and a professional in that field. In my opinion practice is very important, but you should have also the Spirit to finish this long trip with approximately 10 000 practicing hours This is a very optimistic approach to all the people that dont believe in Build Talents, but what i could say that is a Talent is the power inside that person that will be with him in every step until end, WILLPOWER. For me this is very important because in a long run there may be a lot of upside downs and what will drive you to success will be the WillPower that you will find inside you and make you pass the bad situations, learn from them and go forward in completing your mission