Comments on: Employee Engagement – Career Improvisation

By: David Zinger

David Zinger — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:40:35 +0000

Jerry,
Thanks for the comment and point from Crowdourcing. I would hope that we could bring more improvisation to the day job as we give so much of our time and energy to this.
David

By: Jerry Kail

Jerry Kail — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:54:22 +0000

Good points, David! Re Point 10, Improvising an alternative career path: Jeff Howe in the book Crowdsourcing describes some intriguing new ways in which people are reinventing the whole concept of “career” – essentially, by doing a “day job” but then working on selected projects on their own time as offered by websites that “crowdsource” such projects for large companies.

By: Debashish Brahma

Debashish Brahma — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:26:09 +0000

Dear David,
I have been following your blog/website for a long time. Your blog is really great.
I must say it’s very very motivating.
I am from India but as the world is becoming small due to Globalization India is also facing the heat not as bad as US/Canada but still people are loosing jobs the economy is slowing down, people has to re skill and re educated ,it’s difficult in developing country like ours.
Congratulation for having a wonderful informative website and an incredible job that you are doing.

Good Luck,
Debashish Brahma

By: J.D. Meier

J.D. Meier — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:08:42 +0000

I like your twist on work/life -> life/work balance. I think one of the keys is living your values.

Some advice I’ve been giving folks lately is:
- think of it as part of the cycle, we’re in contraction following our expansion
- keep your energy high … it’s your most important fuel (play to your strengths and follow your passions and spend less time in your weaknesses)
- stay focused on the future and finding the path forward … there’s always opportunity.