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CAREER RESPONSIBILITY
Learning from the best when deciding to join or leave a company it is possible to gain more insight (whatever the experience) and benefit from it. Its a person's responsibility to manage their career ultimately and no one else. The expression "Journeyman" which is an apprentice but below that of a master craftsman. When people work for a living aren't they accomplishing that same task in a company? It was when managing became vogue and a career option for status and prestige that those people with the potential weren't being developed. However, managerial conception can happen at any stage of a career via training to enhance their skills further if they have the will power to see it through and every employee in an organisation manages their work but most importantly to stop at the level they are comfortable at without the pressure to develop beyond their capability. I heard a story about a man who tended his rose bush with such loving care even speaking to it gently. When the man died the rose bush never bloomed again and eventually it died as well no matter how much his daughter tried to save it. I like to visit Japanese gardens very much and also when visiting castles etc., I am usually found there looking at flowers and trees. As Peter Senge states about learning organisations the same applies to people and the sequel to career development is career responsibility as the story of tending one's garden illustrates the daughter tried to carry on his work as he had done no matter the size of growth it what you take from it. "We need to think less like
managers and more like biologists, to learn more about the evolving landscape of
organizational learning." Peter Senge
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