OrganizationLIVES

EMPOWERING YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE

1. Building your own organization within your own organization

2. Avoiding ME zones and alone zones

3. Fulfilling your personal life & professional life simultaneously

PRO SUCCESS TOOLS1. Virtual Teams (see

topic slides & online Virtual Teams pro manual)

2. Also see the Virtual Team Examples online reading

7 DIFFERENT ORG LIVES 2 zones

5 communitiesIt’s your choice; it’s your

life.

WHY COMMUNITIES?

They are the 2nd wave (personal goals) you surf

on.

2 ORG ZONES

Here are 6 org communities & 2 isolation zones:

ME zone

Here are 6 org communities & 2 isolation zones:

ME zone = ambitious professionals who build their careers by taking fullest advantage of (using for self-gain) org resources (co-workers, clients, networks, budgets, information, etc.) for building resume & career. ME-zoners define themselves as their own constituent.

ALONE ZONE

Here are 6 org communities & 2 isolation zones:

The ALONE Zone = mostly “blue-collar” employees, part-timers, & temps who work alone or in an independent environment “making a living,” not building a career. Community in the alone zone is typically limited to superficial relationships (like work breaks) due to the non-interdependent (working alone) nature of low level work + high job turnover.

5 OCs

COW

Community Of

Wealth

Here are 6 org communities & 2 isolation zones:

COW = Becoming financially wealthy by increasing the wealth of org stockholders/ownersIn most corporations, the COW = the upper echelon executives hired to maximize profit & shareholder wealth + various corp. non-employee insiders (board members, investment companies, politicians) who gain from their invisible liaisons with the COW

Exec wealth = f(∑ wealth generated for $investors) → exec annual profit bonuses (often a fat % of the corp’s overall profit); stock options to motivate execs to crank up the corp’s short-run stock value; opps for exec cut of $$$ gained from mergers & spin-offs; benefiting from insider deals as a board member, etc.

Becoming a COWboy or COWgirl requires:

1. Executive-rank power to directly impact high/stable investment returns for stockholders

2. Membership in the org’s community of power

3. Political & networking expertise (“savior faire”) to increase

power & business opportunities

4.Expertise in exploiting impersonal capitalism systems for org gain: stock market;, national & global consumers; emerging technology, consumerism, equity & loans, global supply chains; oligopolies (non-competitive industries) & monopolies (one company industry)

COP

Community Of Power

Here are 6 org communities & 2 isolation zones:

COP = Board members, executives, & well-networked non-employees (independent investors, politicians, lobbyists, foreign officials, etc.), who unilaterally make most of the org’s major decisions/strategies. Typically the larger the org, the more disconnected & invisible COP members are in order to reduce personal accountability.

COMCS

Community Of Middle

Class Status

Here are 6 org communities & 2 isolation zones:

COMCS = Mostly non-executive career professionals with one or more college degrees & professional certifications: brand managers, retail buyers, district managers, department heads, etc. COMCS employees drive “CARS”:

Career success: promotions & upward mobility

Affluence: upper tier of middle-class income & material wealth

Recognition: professional awards & civic status

Self-fulfillment: social status & public recognition

COSOR

Community Of SOcial

Relationships

Here are 6 org communities & 2 isolation zones:

COSOR = Employees who rely on their work org as a surrogate family of co-workers who fill a social void. The most common COSOR members today are young un-married, geographically-mobile pre-professionals building a new social network.

COS

Community Of

Service

Here are 6 org communities & 2 isolation zones:

COS = WE > ME employees who focus on serving (deriving significant personal meaning from) co-workers & clients in invisible ways. Service is generated via teamwork; cooperation; leading & following on an informal basis; coaching & mentoring, etc. Service opportunities are available to all employees all the time without org permission.

WHY SERVICE?

1.You might not be 100% amoral.

2.Money & status may not be the only things you value in life.

3.Serving yourself may not be your only purpose in life.