Got it! I’ll give you a call, wonderful! :)
From: MyLinkedinPowerForum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MyLinkedinPowerForum@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nadine
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:43 PM
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I'd love to Meredith! My cell is listed below and I'm in Pasadena often as my family is based there. Call me anytime, I'd love to chat.
Nadine Turner, Six Sigma Black Belt
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From: Meredith Murphy <meredith.murphy@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2008 10:26:14 PM
Subject: RE: [My Linkedin Power Forum] RE: LI search: Q: Title A: Visionary???
I want so much to talk with you off line. Let’s try to get together sometime! We are so close geographically, I know I would enjoy meeting you. Please let me know if this is something you’d like to do.
Thanks again for your reply.
My very vest to you,
Meredith
From: MyLinkedinPowerForum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MyLinkedinPowerForum@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nadine Turner
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:19 PM
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Wooooonderfullll post Meredith!! I truly appreciated it.
As a naturally extroverted and expressive person raised in an environment that did not value self-definition, your post really resonated with me. Even today while in my 40’s, I still encounter beliefs from others that take offense to such confident bravado as my line of work as a Black Belt often involves “thinking big” and “going bold” in planning, presentation and execution.
By use of self-awareness tools like Meyers-Briggs, Predictive Index and DISC assessments over the years, I have stepped into my own skin so to speak and have owned up to my true nature more so than ever. (For those of you that know a bit about this stuff, I’m an ENTJ, in Predictive Index terms a Highest B with a high A, or in DISC terms a D/I. If you don’t know this stuff but would like to learn more about your natural style and personal career needs, feel free to write me off list so that I can connect you with a free survey & report).
I joke with my sister that while growing up, I had the *Rock Star* beaten out of me and now I’m taking it back! J But seriously, my big take away from this entire string is not who has earned rights to self label but rather for each of us to ask, “Do I know who I really am and do I have the confidence to live it? Or do I rely more on external sources to define that for me? Personally, I applaud the healthy expression of all visionaries in my network whose confidence and record support their self-definition.
I’ve dubbed 2008 as the Year of Self-Confidence, both yours and mine.
P.S. Thanks for initiating this topic Lobbyist ;)
Best,
Nadine Turner, Six Sigma Black Belt
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From: MyLinkedinPowerForum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MyLinkedinPowerForum@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Meredith Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:13 PM
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Subject: RE: [My Linkedin Power Forum] RE: LI search: Q: Title A: Visionary???
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…
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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…
Isn’t our entire LinkedIn Profile one of self-definition???
Just a thought.
May your day be just what you want.
Best regards,
Meredith
Self-defined Entrepreneur & Lifestyle Visionary
http://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithmurphy
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--- Original message posted by "WashingtonDCLobbyist" <dclobbyist@yahoo.com> on 2007-12-28 19:12:33 ---
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 / Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/washingtonlobbyist
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