Indeed, I remember quite well my career guidance counselor attempting to tell me that I wasn't cut out to do what I had in mind. I told her she was stupid, and for her to leave me alone. I told my parents I wasn't interested in anything she had to say ever again, and my parents backed me up. Interestingly enough over the years I've heard many people say they had similar bad experiences with their career guidance counselors. Perhaps, in hindsight it is safe to say they had no idea whatsoever in suggesting careers to students. Let's talk.
You see, in Harvard Business Review (October 2013 Issue) there was an interesting article titled; "HR for Neophytes - Line Managers Are Taking on Duties That Once Belonged to Human Resources - Here Is What We Need to Know," by Peter Cappelli. In a subsection subtitle of this article, it asks the question; "How do we manage employees' career path?"
Wow, and I thought my high school guidance counselor was a problem. Are we sure we should rush out to get a degree only to have incredibly high tuition costs and loans to pay back - just to get a corporate job and turn over your destiny do some midrange line manager? No thank you.
In that same Harvard Business Review edition was yet another article "rethinking that decision factory," by Roger L Martin which states; "knowledge workers should be managed as if they are manual workers. A new approach can boost efficiency and productivity," and "companies everywhere struggle with the management of knowledge workers. They compete fiercely to find and retain the best talent, often accumulating thousands of managers in the process," then they alienate each and every one of them just as my high school guidance counselor did, in an attempt to control my destiny - again, no thank you.
Whether you are a union worker, college graduate, or MBA it looks like all this education, training, indoctrination is all about control, and they have a strategy - either outright control of your future upward mobility, or empowering you to choice their will. Now if that isn't the artful diplomacy of upper management calling you a "knowledge worker" to make you feel good, I don't know what is.
In fact, I wonder if the entire concept of going to college, going into debt, and climbing that corporate ladder isn't the most insidious trick we've ever played on our citizenry - I am concerned. Please consider all this and think on it - on a philosophical level - not one of anger but of understanding - then decide.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Career Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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You see, in Harvard Business Review (October 2013 Issue) there was an interesting article titled; "HR for Neophytes - Line Managers Are Taking on Duties That Once Belonged to Human Resources - Here Is What We Need to Know," by Peter Cappelli. In a subsection subtitle of this article, it asks the question; "How do we manage employees' career path?"
Wow, and I thought my high school guidance counselor was a problem. Are we sure we should rush out to get a degree only to have incredibly high tuition costs and loans to pay back - just to get a corporate job and turn over your destiny do some midrange line manager? No thank you.
In that same Harvard Business Review edition was yet another article "rethinking that decision factory," by Roger L Martin which states; "knowledge workers should be managed as if they are manual workers. A new approach can boost efficiency and productivity," and "companies everywhere struggle with the management of knowledge workers. They compete fiercely to find and retain the best talent, often accumulating thousands of managers in the process," then they alienate each and every one of them just as my high school guidance counselor did, in an attempt to control my destiny - again, no thank you.
Whether you are a union worker, college graduate, or MBA it looks like all this education, training, indoctrination is all about control, and they have a strategy - either outright control of your future upward mobility, or empowering you to choice their will. Now if that isn't the artful diplomacy of upper management calling you a "knowledge worker" to make you feel good, I don't know what is.
In fact, I wonder if the entire concept of going to college, going into debt, and climbing that corporate ladder isn't the most insidious trick we've ever played on our citizenry - I am concerned. Please consider all this and think on it - on a philosophical level - not one of anger but of understanding - then decide.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Career Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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