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Learn how to enhance collaboration and performance in large-scale organizations through Flow Engineering
Learn how making work visible, value stream management, and flow metrics can affect change in your organization.
Clarify team interactions for fast flow using simple sense-making approaches and tools.
Multiple award-winning CTO, researcher, and bestselling author Gene Kim hosts enterprise technology and business leaders.
In the first part of this two-part episode of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Dr. Ron Westrum, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University.
In the first episode of Season 2 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Admiral John Richardson, who served as Chief of Naval Operations for four years.
Exploring the impact of GenAI in our organizations & creating business impact through technology leadership.
DevOps best practices, case studies, organizational change, ways of working, and the latest thinking affecting business and technology leadership.
The debate over in-office versus remote work misses a fundamental truth: high-performing teams succeed based on how they’re organized, not where they sit.
Leaders can help their organizations move from the danger zone to the winning zone by changing how they wire their organization’s social circuitry.
The values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, and practices of DevOps.
This post presents the four key metrics to measure software delivery performance.
September 7, 2023
Last week, I looked at how André Martin’s new book Wrong Fit, Right Fit helped me define my values and how aligning values can be vital to finding a good fit at work. This week I’m diving into an excursion that helps you tease out what really matters to you (not just what you think matters to you).
In Excursion 4, we determine what matters more to us at work: company, craft, or cause.
As André says, this is hard because we all aspire to find all three. We want to work for a company we love, doing something we’re passionate about, that has a lasting impact on the world around us. However, the reality is that we’re not going to find that perfect combination in every job; we may never find it at all. That’s why figuring out which matters the most to us is crucial. Which is most fulfilling? Which gives us the most drive and passion?
Through this excursion, I learned I’m a “craft” person, which means I am motivated by the work itself. It also means that I am most satisfied when I am honing my craft: taking classes, attending seminars, or putting my newest skills to the test.
Looking back on previous job experiences, this makes a lot of sense. I picked my last job, which was also my first job after grad school, based on the company. It had a certain cachet that I appreciated, and I liked being able to say I worked there. However, the actual job itself didn’t nurture my skills. I got by but couldn’t learn and grow; I was never really able to hone my craft.
Although I didn’t fully realize it then, that lack of engagement with craft was why I decided to return to college and get a business degree. I wanted to learn and hone my craft in ways I knew I could never do at my old job. Ultimately, I am happy in my role as Social Media & Marketing Coordinator at IT Revolution because of craft. This role brings together my degree in book publishing and my degree in business, and gives me the support I need to keep improving.
Tune in next week when I go through another excursion from Wrong Fit, Right Fit!
Lucy is the Marketing & Social Media Coordinator at IT Revolution. She has a background in writing, marketing, and business.
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