On a Score of 1-10 Your Karma Rank is Now a 12+!!!!!!
Yep, you busted the meter...
APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE!!! ((:pardon the yelling:))
But you just ranked a HUGE Score in "awe" factor ratings (with me) Ms. Murphy :-))
opps! yelling again... sorry... ;-)
{{{}}}
Really, Thank you for taking the time to post this...
Fondly and with much appreciation,
Marilyn A. Magallanes
--- In MyLinkedinPowerForum@yahoogroups.com, "Meredith Murphy" <meredith.murphy@...> wrote:
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> I am getting all kinds of energy from reading these posts about VISIONARY
> and self-definition, and reached a point where I felt I would try to express
> my thoughts on this, and share for the purpose of providing a voice for the
> un-expressed self-named visionaries in question�
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> As a adopted child and artist, I have spent most of my life involved in the
> ways of understanding identity and self-expression. These are my passions,
> and as one of the primary vehicles of self-expression is work, I have spent
> much of my energy understanding how all these arenas intersect and how one
> might create beauty and balance and internal harmony and a authentic
> alignment within all these realms of our experience.
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> I notice within career management, that self-knowledge is the first step to
> successfully integrating all of this. One benefits enormously from accurate
> self-understanding and the ability to articulate and demonstrate this.
> Early on, in coaching clients in career transition while working for a major
> outplacement firm, and later as a practice leader within the field, I found
> that while many people (I would even argue, ALL) know what they want in
> life, most are not able to articulate clearly and compellingly, why this
> makes sense for them. This is a major aspect of coaching folks to network,
> interview & NEGOTIATE! With myself and my clients, I noticed a tendency to
> not understand the hierarchy of skill development, and to thus underestimate
> their value and opportunities. Upon further conversation, we often began to
> work on ideas about permission and a sense of worthiness�what one felt they
> deserved, having unearthed these as the root cause and obstacle to going
> after the ideal work situation.
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> Within our MLPF, we have talked at length as a community about JOB HOPPING.
> Many of us expressed the need to get to know an individual and (I
> paraphrase) to seek first (as Covey says�) to understand, rather than to
> make assumptions. The same might be true in assessing the use of the word
> VISIONARY.
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> Why have we added a value judgment to this term? Is a VISIONARY really a
> better person than an ORGANIZER? Or a MANGER? Or an INVENTOR? Or�[insert
> any other functional skill]? Or is it simply a qualitative term, which
> because it may be perceived as more rare, or who know�maybe it is simply
> more rarely EXPRESSED? Has this caused us to think it is better, and more
> ELITE and therefore, NOT appropriate to recognize in ourselves?
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> Furthermore, why do we think it is more legitimate if others name who we are
> then us naming ourselves?? Where do we get the ideas that self-definition
> is more accurate from outside than from within? What makes us think another
> knows better than us where our true abilities lie? What makes us think that
> an individual who is self-aware and conscious would not grow clear in
> understanding their own abilities, and then choose to describe themselves as
> such, so that we might understand what specific form their abilities take?
> Of course, in all areas of life, not everyone is honest, or accurate in
> expressing who they are�but isn�t that, however, different from deciding on
> what criteria we are allowed to self-define?
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> It seems to me, that I will accept whatever someone tells me about
> themselves, as long as my internal guidance systems in life reads them as
> sincere, genuine, real and that the other information I receive in
> interacting with them is consistent with what they�ve shared about
> themselves�be it qualitative or quantitative�
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> Isn�t our entire LinkedIn Profile one of self-definition???
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> Just a thought.
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> May your day be just what you want.
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> Best regards,
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> Meredith
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> Self-defined Entrepreneur & Lifestyle Visionary
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> http://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithmurphy
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> � Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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> --- Original message posted by "WashingtonDCLobbyist" dclobbyist@...
> on 2007-12-28 19:12:33 ---
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> I noticed many people on LinkedIn list their profession as "visionary".
> I've always reserved that word for true pioneers; a VERY rare class of
> people. Yet in my network there are over 300 people who call themselves
> visionaries, visionary officers, and the like. Am I honored to have so many
> visionaries in my network or do the people in my network have a very broad
> understanding of that word. Thanks. JT Jeffrey L. Taylor / email:
> Linkedin.lobbyist(at)gmail.com <http://linkedin.lobbyist(at)gmail.com/> /
> Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/washingtonlobbyist
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