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PhaseIIQandAToHelpMakeAnActionPlan 8 - 15 Apr 2008 - Main.AndrewGradman
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To post questions and build out the discussion started in the Wednesday, April 9th class regarding where to go from here and how to build an action plan for shaping our career without hocking the license. | |
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< | There are probably many questions, so either hit "edit" and give your question a bold/header formatting and its own comment box; or, if you're not comfortable with that, use a fresh comment box from below. | >
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> | There are probably many questions, so either hit "edit" and give your question a bold/header formatting and its own comment box; or, if you're not comfortable with that, use a fresh comment box from below. | | | | |
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| | | A few years ago I was given an assignment that I didn't have the experience to handle successfully. After watching me fumble for a bit, my mentor at the time called me into his office and said: "A good leader knows three things. He knows what he knows. He knows what he doesn't know. And he knows where to go to find out the stuff he needs to learn."
This was particularly important advice for me to receive because I am someone who compensates for insecurity by puffing up my chest and pushing forward, pretending to know what I don't know. | |
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< | One way to maximize the power of this post, it seems, would be to put each other in touch with people in the legal community who have a particular insight about an issue. These people might be our classmates, professors, practitioners, or anyone else who might have a thing or two to say about this issue. -- AdamCarlis - 12 April 2008 | >
> | One way to maximize the power of this post, it seems, would be to put each other in touch with people in the legal community who have a particular insight about an issue. These people might be our classmates, professors, practitioners, or anyone else who might have a thing or two to say about this issue.
-- AdamCarlis - 12 April 2008
Adam, your suggestion makes good sense. But even if I knew "what I know" and "what I don't know," I wouldn't feel ready to inquire "where to find out the stuff I need to learn," UNTIL I also knew what is this "stuff I need to learn." I feel like I skipped
a middle step, i.e. shining what I KNOW upon what I DON'T KNOW, in order to distinguish within the latter, what I should know from what I shouldn't.
As everyone knows, I'm the first to "puff up my chest and push forward, pretending" etc. etc. But until I know what I should know, I won't assume that lawyers are people I should learn it from. We can't have two uncontrolled variables at once, so I propose that we stereotype what persons in each profession know, and ask:
"Which information [i.e. held by lawyers, entrepreneurs, politicians, policemen, prisoners, professors, young parents, etc.] SHOULD WE KNOW?"
Can we have that discussion here -- what vocation and/or specialty SHOULD we be hearing from?
My assumption: we are talking about TAKING RISKS; therefore we'd want to hear from more entrepreneurs than lawyers. Or you can say "Entrepreneurial lawyers" if you'd like to end this discussion by demonstrating the Zen-like futility of asking questions about knowledge, and I will abide.
-- AndrewGradman - 15 Apr 2008
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