In 2011, I announced that the Industrial Age workplace is over, and has been replaced with the new Protean workplace. This shift is both indisputable and immutable.
12 Protean Success Principles For Unlimited Achievement
- Establish high standards of personal responsibility
- Recognize the significant role of your own personal ambition
- Remember: “If it’s going to be… it’s entirely up to me”
- Increase your awareness on a continual basis; awareness is power
- Make good decisions based on an ever-evolving level of awareness
- Eliminate excuses and blame; focus on what you can control
- Identify, clarify and adhere to your core values; pursue your passions (self actualization)
- Accept defeat and failure with the same dignity you accept victory and success
- Anticipate change and consistently look for opportunities
- Pay attention; remain observant and alert at all times; “what you don’t see won’t help”
- Ask high quality questions as they will lead to high quality answers/breakthroughs
- Be a life-long learner; think, assess, research, and analyze on a regular basis
- Create a long-term vision to guide your short-term decision-making
- Anticipate and prepare for unexpected change that will constantly take place
- Respect and “learn from the past” in preparing for the future; don’t judge the past
- Ask yourself if you could see the future, what would it look like, and what would you do differently today?