Word-association game: vital Pro skill-sets?
I was first going to call this “vital entrepreneurial skill-sets,” but not everyone is an entrepreneur (nor am I), so instead, let’s call it Pro, which means someone that performs well in his or her profession
The rules of the game are simple. Come up with a single important area that a professional should master in order to do their job well. And add where (s)he should get that knowledge, for example a book-title, a website, a course, or otherwise. If this is specific to your job, add what you do.
Some examples:
Skill: Deductive ability – aka to analyse facts and come to conclusions
Good place to start: read Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes
or
Skill: Delegation – aka understand the job so well, that you can “outsource” part of it with clear targets to meet.
Good place to start: read Micheal Gerber’s The E-Myth Revisited.
I’ll start
Skill: Basic accounting
Good place to start: do a course at your local chamber of commerce; they are usually cheap and you’ll meet other people that you can learn together with.
You’re next! For every suggestion, I’ll come back with one of my own. I’m hoping to make this the most commented post in Tech IT Easy ever! Ambitious, I know.
Oh, and, KEEP IT FUN! 
Vincent
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Skill: Pragmatism, or doing with what you got and not waiting on the “perfect”.
Good place to start: Watching MacGyver and getting/having the (figurative) Victorinox knife…
“As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want.” – Donald Rumsfeld
Check and check, I really miss MacGyver.
Skill: Market research, aka finding out useful and not so useful stuff about any topic.
Good place to start: Create a survey with Google Documents (it’s SO easy!), send it to all your friends, check out the data in Google spreadsheets, and make fun graphs out of it.
OK, either everyone’s on holiday, it’s a bad title, an unclear game, or a not-so-fun game. Which is it?
Next one.
Skill: Emulate top-performers – abstract, I know, but think playing Tennis like Federer or giving presentations like Steve Jobs.
Good place to start: NLP – The new technology of achievement (audio version!!!), which teaches you about visualising and about paying attention. Vision & detail, both important to success, I think.
Sorry Vince, but isn’t NLP just bad psychology and b.s.? Or at least, isn’t lot of self-help b.s. sold as NLP?
I’d go as far as you’re probably correct that you might get away with some visualising and attention-paying tricks, but don’t go too far in it. I guess it’s the pseudoscience they mix in that really scares me.
Don’t knock it ’til you try it. Some good friends of mine swear by it. And the audio-book I pointed at is pretty much the original from the 80s, can’t vouch for any greedy pseudo-science that happened after it.
Skill: learning algorithms
Good place to start: http://www.projecteuler.net (though I’d like a good tutorial with that too).
High school math textbooks and Google are your tutorials for project euler… many of the “tricks” behind those tasks are based on ideas first presented and then blissfully forgotten in high school math. The whole idea with the site is that there’s no tutorial or help. If you can’t do it, you can’t…
Once you solve couple of them, you’ll be banging your head to a wall once you read how other people solved it with pen and paper and couple of minutes… =)
Thanks, Kari, I guessed as much.
I’m going to abandon this game now, until someone else plays along.
Skill : humility and team spirit. Start with looking Greece underdogs beating France, Czech Republic and Portugal bunches of superstars in Euro 2004. (which links to the Sport coach post).
What’s interesting : each time the same strategy and final score. And each time the opposite team thought before hand, we’re not so stupid, we won’t get trap. They all did : death to arrogance.
skill : ability to accept criticism. What’s important is the final product, not your ideas.
Start with : 10 commandments of egoless programming : http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1045782.html
Nice one, Cecil!
Skill: writing a business-plan
Good place to start: Jeremy Fain’s blogpost on business-plan pattern; also check out this free ebook by McKinsey, entitled “Starting Up”
hey there!
Long time no post..
Regarding NLP, I suggest readers who don’t know Derren Brown to google and youtube the guy:
http://www.google.com/search?q=derren+brown
I first thought it was a prank, but damn, he’s good!
Another word game. I am just fascinated in playing word games. Thanks for sharing it with us. Enjoy the game.