Growing my own lettuce in volcanic soil.
Will it help me grow my business?
The thinking is that if you are materially doing the same job for more than 3 to 5 years, it suggests that you may not be growing, building new competencies, expanding networks, etc. Compensation is another area where seniority has been deemphasized at AT&T.
This feedforward experience has helped me to improve my competencies.
In the long run, my competencies might be eroded.
As a company grows, core competencies shift, markets (customers, competitors, environment, distribution channels and technology) evolve, and some opportunities are more leverage-able than others.
There is growing interest in competency-based education (CBE) in health professions education, including pharmacy.
Given the growing emphasis on competency-based evaluation in surgery, gynecology departments may soon consider volume requirements a component of privileging.
Instead, a fluid core enables moves into new sectors, growing competency very quickly.
It does this at a time when the number of liberal arts colleges is decreasing; enrollments in the liberal arts are declining and there is a commonly voiced concern that vocationalism and the growing concern with competency-based education and badges will drive the liberal arts from higher education.
As a psychotherapist, it is only when I rejected male notions of distance and aloofness and replaced them with values of connection, active expressions of compassion, and resistance to shaming that I grew into my strength and competency.
