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Stephen HultquistStephen HultquistInfinite SummitInfinite Summit
Working Together:Expand Your Career by
Expanding Your Skills
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What’s the Point?
Technical careers often dead-endWhy?
Specializations expire COBOL? FORTRAN? Bus-and-Tag?
Demand variesY2K, IP networking, storage networking
The lonersThe “team player” cliché
What can you do about it?Expand yourself!
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Why Me?
Began my career in the traditional wayUniversityBig business
TransitionedMy own firmVC companies
Discovered the evolution
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Today
Infinite SummitVirtual CIOVirtual CTOPersonal/Leadership coaching
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Abstract
What’s the path to career expansion?Being brilliant in technologyConnecting with othersExpanding your influenceIncreasing your value
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It All Starts With You
What you get from your work?
What you’d like to get from it?The typical path of a careerThe value exchangeIncreasing your value
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What Do You Get from Your Career?
Personal challengeFinancial rewards
Near-termLong-term
Healthy lifestyleCamaraderie…?
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What is Your Ideal Career?
Where are you now?Where do you ultimately want to be?What is it that attracts you?How do you get from here to there?Is the value enough to move you forward?
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Typical Technology Career Path
Bright-eyed brillianceComfortable confidenceDoubting drudgeryPromising promotionFrustrating flounderingTortuous thrashingReluctant resignation
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Why? How Do We Get Here?
Typical bent of those who enjoy technologyScholarlySolitaryScrupulousSuspicious
Evolution of the Knowledge EconomyVirtual notoriety, real anonymityInternational community
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Being Brilliant
It starts hereDeveloping expertiseContributing to the resultsFocus
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Why Is This Important?
It demonstrates your valueIt creates a rationale for collaborationIt is the foundation for all the growth you’ll have
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Connecting With Others
A shift occursFrom individual contributorTo real team member
Expanding your networkAs with social networks on-lineUltimately, it’s a value exchange
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Why Is This Important?
It multiplies your valueIt communicates your valueIt expands your influence
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Expanding Your Influence
As the respect of others grows, influence growsYour ability to impact the organization growsOpportunities to multiple yourself increaseYour value does, too
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Increasing Your Value
Ultimately, it’s all about valueWhat is your value?How can you increase it?How do others see it?
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Value
Life is all about a value exchangePersonallySpirituallyIn business
Why do you do what you do?Who do you work with best?
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How Do You Determine Your Value?
Think about how you judge valueThink about how you’ll be judgedConsider:
what you knowwhat others perceive
Plan:How do I increase my value?How will others see it?
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20th Century Leadership
Based on the need for employmentLeadership by management
Threat of dismissalPromise of financial support
Note: Not reward!
Us versus Them
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Shift Began
In the late 1980sEmergence of the knowledge economyDestruction of the monolithic corporate empires
Big three automakersIBM
Loyalty was goneCompany to employeesEmployees to company
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A New World With New Questions
How do you motivate staff who are mobile?How do you meet targets with such employees?What changes?What stays the same?
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Answer: 21st Century Leadership
Recognition of the source of motivationLearning to find the motivationConsidering how to resonate with itCreating a team who are all connected
Each resonating to their own motivationEach resonating with the team goals
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It’s More Difficult
This is a higher standard of leadership!It requires more effortIt requires move connectionIt requires more caring
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It Determines Your Value
Your ability to work with othersCreating synergyEach achieving and growing
PersonallyCollectively
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Recommendations for Next Steps
Step into your relationshipsDiscover who those people areLearn what makes them tickThink about how you alignConsider synergies
Plan your progressWhere will you focus first?Where will that lead?How will you know?
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What’s Next For You?
Where are you on the scale?Early 20th centuryLate 20th centuryNOW leadership
What do you want to do?Change your thinkingChange your approachGo back to what you’ve always done
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Q&A / Feedback
Please send any questions or comments on this presentation to SNIA: [email protected]
Many thanks to the following individuals for their contributions to this workshop.
SNIA Education Committee
David Deming Howard GoldsteinNancy Clay Sayed FaisalJim Martin Meg BertiniMatthew Furey Karen Schaefer
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Bibliography
“Primal Leadership” by Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, and Annie McKee“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Dr. Stephen R. Covey“Getting Things Done” by David Allen“Ready for Anything” by David Allen“Talent is Never Enough” by John C. Maxwell“Leading Geeks” by Paul Glen“Go Put Your Strengths to Work” by Marcus Buckingham“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick M. Lencioni“Lead the Field” by Earl Nightingale (audio album)“The 4-Hour Work Week” by Timothy Ferriss
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Contact Information
Stephen HultquistInfinite Summit4845 Pearl East Circle, Suite 101Boulder, CO 80301
[email protected]://www.infinitesummit.com/