Bruce Tulgan
Bruce Tulgan
Bruce L. Tulganis an American writer specializing in management training and generational diversity in the workforce. His books include Not Everyone Gets a Trophy, The 27 Challenges Managers Face, It's Okay to Be the Boss, and Managing Generation X. He founded the management training firm RainmakerThinking, Inc. in 1993 and is a keynote speaker, seminar leader, and business consultant...
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The thing that people need to remember is that downsizing may be back on the front pages, but the downsizing never slowed down. Downsizing has been a constant and regular feature of the new working world, and it will continue to be.
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This one wants more money. That one wants a different schedule. Another person wants to trade in her responsibilities for a whole new set. This one wants to be included in high-level meetings. That one wants to attend a particular training program. Still another wants to start telecommuting ... from a thousand miles away,
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Today, the most mobile part of the workforce is the most marketable.
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But that almost never happens, ... People are so thrilled, usually, to customize their work arrangements that they become very protective of the deal they've created for themselves.
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Whatever you don't outsource, you'd better be great at, ... Before we're through, you might be the only 'employee' left in your business.
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The norm will be to work for several employers; on again, off again; as an employee one year, as an independent contractor the next year; 40 hours one week, 20 hours another; on-site this month, telecommuting the next; and so on,
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The No. 1 thing is to be one of those people who gets a lot of work done very well, very fast. Don't be scared into submission by all the downsizing activity. That's exactly the wrong message to take.
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It was their idea -- downsizing, restructuring, re-engineering. It's what companies needed to do to get fluid and flexible,
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Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool -- and the number-one dream-job factor -- at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.
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A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
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Leverage your uniqueness.
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We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change have yielded chaotic markets, fierce competition, and unpredictable staff requirements.
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Always be assessing your particular skills and your particular experience and your particular abilities and energies and interests, and matching them up with the available work to be done. And then be prepared to sell yourself into challenges.
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There's tremendous demand for skilled people at all levels of almost every organization and almost every industry and that's true in almost every part of the country.