Using the five sources of your power at work

1.Personal power is all about your charisma, your passion to achieve the strength of your convictions, your ability to communicate and inspire, and your leadership skills.

　　2.Rela-tionship power derives from the network of contacts and friends that you make, develop, and maintain at work; from coworkers who keep you up to date with the goings-on in their part of the organization, to executives who seek you out for special projects--and everyone in between.

　　3.Position power is directly related to where you reside on your company's organizational chart. Owners, presidents, and CEOs have plenty of position power, while receptionists, clerks, and laborers typically have little or none.

　　4. Knowledge power is based on the special expertise and knowledge that you have of your job, your departments, or your organization.

　　5.Task power is inherent in the jobs you are assigned at work. Some work is by nature more important to the health of the organization than others. For example, salespeople, whose job is to bring in money by selling its products or services, usually have high task power.

　　You can leverage any source of power you have to build your base of power in another source.

At The Glass Pane

An interesting frosted window
opens out into the world here.
From where does this reality
come that is set before us
each day? How is it created
so specifically for each of us
upon our special journeys
throughout the light and song
made from the night’s dreams?

From what is it are we made,
suppose to see as we stumble
over the stones and fall down
the stairs? Where is the next
turn within the maze leading
us on our blind journey home?
Did we take that other voice
too personally within the cave.

What does keeping our word
mean inside the darkness
that makes the tunnel so dim?
What did we assume in jungles
to mislead us now, lost within
the labyrinth unfolding inside
our dust smothered hearts?

How do we know the stars
around what we’ve never lost?
How do we become the best
we can ever be each day?
Is the truth really within us;
ourselves tied down? Mirror, oh
bright mirror that is the self
hung on this wall in the tomb;
who's the most real of them all?

SEVEN SKILLS FOR QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES IN 21ST CENTURY

Technical and technological skills will take on greater importance. There will be a growing need for people who can understand and fix systems--from computer systems to product distribution systems to plumbing systems.

　　Visionary skills will be in demand. The ability to gather and absorb a wide range of input ,then use that knowledge, understanding, and perspective to guide organization into future, will be vital.

　　Numbers and measurement will be important, of course, but smoothing the flow form month to month, from quarter to quarter will be essential for highly profitable long-term performance. Practically every company will have to move away from today's obsession with looking ahead only as far as the next financial reporting period.

　　Ability to organize will definitely be important in the corporation of the future. Everywhere there will be a need to organize something: resources, workflow, marketing mix, financial opportunities, and much more, all will demand high levels of organization and reorganization.

　　Persuasive skills will be used in many ways by the corporation of the future, the most-effective individuals will be those who know how to present information and ideas so that others can understand and support a particular position. Good salesmanship will be essential in many more interactions than we consider today, especially inside the organization.

　　Communication skills--careful listening, clear writing, close reading, plain speaking, and accurate description--will be invaluable. In tomorrow's fast-paced business environment there will be precious little time to correct any misunderstandings. Communications breakdown may well become a fatal corporate disease.

　　Ability to learn will be above everything else in importance--empowering people to grow in effectiveness and help their companies achieve desired objectives. Some of this skill is innate, but many people enhance their ability to learn--and to relate different aspects of learning--through college and university courses. We believe the liberal arts education experience will prove to be the most valuable type of education for tomorrow's leaders.

　　The top employees of the coming century will be flexible, creative and motivated toward making a positive difference in the world. They will seek balance, growth and fulfillment in both their work and home environments. The corporation of the future must respond to these needs and desires; otherwise they will find themselves hampered by a lack of qualified people to accomplish the organization's work.

Work Experience

Industry:Others Company Type: Company Size: Company Profile:The group was founded by the former management team of ING China.
2007-7 - Now Assistant to GM
Location: Beijing Job Type:Full-time Department: Report to: Number of Subordinates:employees :
Job Category:President/Managing Director Assistant
Career Level:Senior Position (Non-managerial)
Responsibilities and Achievements:
? Supported the GM in administrative work, e.g. his meeting and calendar arrangement, travel scheduling, monthly expenses reporting, etc.
? Coordinated for and arranged guests’ visits, such as itinerary planning, invitation letter drafting, transportation arrangement and hotel reservation, etc.
? Assisted the GM in internal and external communication, e.g. won a due diligence review deal through effective communication with new client, helped the GM to organize colleagues from various departments to accomplish the task, and wrote bilingual reports
? Supported the GM in project inspection, market research and report composition
? Office management and maintenance by communicating with cleaning, repair, security and other departments of the building’s property management company
? Office supply procurement, e.g. stationeries, facilities and equipments, responsible for indentifying vendors, budgeting and cost control
? Travel, mailing, courier arrangements and other administrative support to colleagues
? Company events organization, including annual party, the company’s exhibition at conferences
? Document circulation and filing
? arious documents translation and meeting interpretation

Advertisers Perform a Useful Service to the Community

Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they’re always coming in for criticism. Their critics seem to resent them because they have a flair for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around. ‘It’s iniquitous,’ they say, ‘that this entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) should absorb millions of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big companies are making. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays…’
The poor old consumer! He’d have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn’t create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods derives largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.
Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway byelaws while waiting for a train? Would you like to read only closely printed columns of news in your daily paper? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a drab wall or a newspaper full of the daily ration of calamities.
We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not subsist without this source of revenue. The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmes is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!
Another thing we mustn’t forget is the ‘small ads.’ which are in virtually every newspaper and magazine. What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the ‘hatch, match and dispatch’ column but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or ‘agony’ column. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It’s the best advertisement for advertising there is!