Career counselor Margo Frey, president of career development service of Milwaukee, tells of a person who uses the Myers-Briggs tool to help her on her job. She was on the production end of advertising firm. And constantly frustrated at being stuck between the demands of the creative department and its endless ideas, and management with its pressures to finalize product, she couldn’t understand why people simply couldn’t keep working together to get the job done. After going through the Myers-Briggs, the woman discovered that she hadn’t properly understood her role vis-à-vis the creative department and management, and the types of personalities attracted to each function.
The new economy will be a service economy. No matter what you make or do on the job, evaluate yourself as a “servant.” How well do you serve your “customers,” and what can you do to become better?
An important part of knowing yourself is constantly improving you. Humans are in constant change, and it requires deliberate effort to assure that the change is in a positive direction. Chart a plan for the knowledge that you need or want to have. And then stick to it.
There’s paradox in all life, not the least of which is know which of your personal values to follow when they come into conflict. Harold Grin spoon is both a successful entrepreneur as founder of Aspen Square Management Co. in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and a generous philanthropist. Having built his business in the though commercial and multifamily real estate market, he has had to learn when to be though according to the requirements of the business and when to be generous in accord with his inner nature. A further paradox: his being though business has now allowed him to be a much a much bigger giver to charitable causes. Like the song says, “you gotta know when to hold’ em, and know when to fold’ em.”
Self Assessment and self Knowledge: Part-4
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