The 4 things to do before your lose your job
[Music]
you may think
that superheroes were invented in united
states in the 50s or the 60s
you’re wrong superheroes with superpower
were actually invented and created in
greece
3000 years ago they have 12 olympian
gods
the most important of them is zeos
when the romans conquered greece
they didn’t really bother to create new
gods
and therefore they literally cut and
pasted the greek gods and translate into
roman religion except one god a true
roman god let me introduce him to him
his name is janus and is considered the
god of transitions because he symbolized
the moment of transition between
life and death war and peace summer and
winter
it was really an important god according
to the romans
and in case you wonder why january is
called that way
is because it was worshipped as the god
of the beginning
and general is called that way in honor
of janus
now look at the iconic feature
of janus yes two faces
one looking at the pasta the face of
wisdom
because we have to learn from the past
and one looking at the future
a younger more energetic face looking at
the future
looking at the age of change at the age
of transition
so we should relate to januza because
we’re exactly in an age of change as we
speak
and as we look into the future the
question is which kind of future
do we want to see and are we seeing the
answer is
we don’t know we don’t know what the
future unfold
but we probably know that is unlikely
that the future can be defined as a new
normal
which to my surprise has been kind of
accepted
term from maybe many organization
newspaper
and an academic but really
should we really expect normality going
forward
in order to understand this we i’m gonna
ask once more
some help from our greek friends because
normal is a greek word for canonicus
means conforming to a type standard
regular
average predictable what people expect
and my question to you is are we really
sure that what is coming next
can be defined as normal in my view what
i think is coming next
can be better defined as a new context
something that we need to shape
that’s going to be made by chaos crisis
the necessity to take decisions
complexity confusion
and guess what constant change
so this conversation is divided in two
parts
the bad news and the good news the bad
news is gonna last only a few seconds
and the bad news part is gonna last a
little bit longer
it’s gonna be a lot of fun but it’s
gonna be a little bit smelly
and with some tears smelly because we
have to sweat
and to do quite a lot of work over there
now the bad news is you’re going to lose
your job let me repeat you
are going to lose your job or at least
the job that you’re currently doing
is going to be so different in three
maximum five years
down the line that you need to acquire
completely new skills in order to be
able to do it
it’s fair to say that uh people losing
jobs
happened before because of technological
changes
look at this guy for example his job was
to wake up people at 5 30 in the morning
and he probably lost his job when the
alarm clock were invented
and the second guy is a guy that lost
his job as well
when they invented a proper raider
however we shouldn’t feel too sorry for
him because it doesn’t look too happy
anyway
so the question is why are we going to
lose our job
we’re going to lose our job because the
the moment that we’re leaving and the
characteristic of what the new context
will be
can be defined in perhaps in three
different elements the first one
constant change means amazing speed
exponential speed the exponential speed
of what we’re seeing
is uh incredible right now the second
element
is uh what we see in front of us and the
the magnitude of the problem problems
are not
exclusively being complicated but also
complex
this is not just a semantic difference
between the two words
but a complicated problem requires
technical expertise
to solve it while a complex problem
requires constant learning adaptation
sense making the capacity to connect
adults the capacity to develop
contextual intelligence and the capacity
of collaborating between different
people but the last element is what we
see right now is not only happening fast
it’s not only complicated and complex
but it’s also
changing us the changing the way we
relate to each other
is changing the way we relate to other
human beings
and to society in general to the point
that
kai fully uh described the society we’re
moving into
uh it’s called the homo society which
a society in which online with merge
with offline and to certain extent if
you think about were becoming like
mangrovius these amazing plants are so
important for the ecosystem
they’re growing in brackish water an
example
let me introduce you to akiko akiko
kondo
who has recently met and married an
hologram
however as a personal favor may kindly
ask you
not to say this to my wife because she
can be tempted to do exactly the same
so let me show you
a wonderful masterpiece is a ferrari t8
and my question to you is what allows
this car
to go to up to 350 kilometers per hour
when i see questions to my in my
workshop and seminar
people responded by saying the engine
the aerodynamics the road condition the
tires
the pilot the technology and this sensor
are correct
but when you think about what allows
this car or
any car to go up to the speed are the
brakes
so in a moment where you’re entering
such a new context
my question to you is are you using your
brakes or
if you want rule number one of what you
have to do when you lose your job
rule number one is take care of yourself
let me give a bit of a evidence of the
of this element people
when they have a pet in 96 percent of
the cases
they end up taking care of their pets by
following the instruction given by the
vet
when they take a legendary parents or
maybe a vulnerable and sick friend to
the doctor
is still very high 88 percent of people
end up following the instruction of the
doctor
but what’s happened when we go to the
doctor for ourselves
and in less than 40 percent of the cases
we are taking care of ourselves the way
the doctor is telling us to do
because we’ll keep on thinking that
where we can postpone the moment which
we’re taking care of ourselves
and it’s dangerous to deferred our
maintenance
so let me to certain extent it is also
interesting to see
that people appear to be more concerned
about recharging their phone than
recharging themselves
so the first rule let me repeat is very
important the first rule when you lose
your job
either to take care of yourself and like
jordan peterson wrote you have to treat
yourself
like someone you’re responsible for
helping
so the first rule is taking care of
yourself
and then what we start with this very
powerful question
what are you good at what are your
strengths
what is your talent what is your passion
and in case
you’re still struggling in understanding
and finding the right answer
you can actually find some great help
from your friends
so let me share a small secret with you
something that you may want to do
is uh send an sma so what’s up to 50
people colleagues and friends that knows
you quite well
and you ask them which three words comes
to your mind
when you think of me then sit down
read and listen what they say to you
this is an amazing opportunity to learn
from
other people and probably you will find
out
gift amazing skills capacities
insights they will help you to find a
way
now let’s say for a second that you are
a portfolio manager
a portfolio manager is somebody who’s
managing the financial portfolio of
somebody
and the objective of that person is to
increase the value
of this portfolio let’s assume that
rather than managing the portfolio
somebody else
you have to increase the value of your
career
increase the value of your career so
what would you do
now i’ve been direct of human resources
organization and i noticed that a lot of
people do a very simple mistake
which is they confuse the value of their
career
with their salaries so they try to
constantly increase their salaries
without increasing the value and the
impact that they provide to the company
this is a big mistake my suggestion is
focus first on increasing the value
of your career and how do you increase
the value of your career by doing these
three things
which i believe is going to be helpful
in your journey the first one
you have to increase and develop your
knowledge capital
knowledge capital is what you know and
there are fundamentally two kinds of
learning
the technical learning which is
relatively easy to measure
let’s say you want to learn to play
piano to play tennis or
a language there are different steps
that gives you a sense of how much
you’ve progressed on the specific domain
but also the personal learning which to
me is the starting point
because we tend to forget that we are
human being
before human doing so start with a
personal learning
uh two things to remember the first one
make sure that you invest at least five
hours per week
in your professional development because
you don’t do it you’re kind of
responsible
and you’re not actually increasing the
value of your
career and the second one is to make
sure that
whatever you learned has to translate
into practical results
so what if if i were to say to you then
annoyed by heart
or the recipe of italian cuisines i can
do
pasta pizza melonzana parmigiana
my favorite but i never cooked a dish
you would not take me seriously because
have not demonstrated that my knowledge
has an impact so make sure that you know
how to cook
as well meaning that in addition to the
theoretical knowledge these are
translated into results and impact
for your company your colleagues the
clients
you serve
the second thing that you have to do is
to reinforce
your relationship capital and let’s be
clear about one thing this is not about
increasing exponentially the number of
people
that you have contact with it’s not
about having 50 000 followers on
facebook or linkedin
or whatever social media is about
being at the service of others so to
certain extent
your relationship capital is like your
bank account you have to deposit first
before you’re able to withdraw let’s
also understand another point
which is visibility and credibility are
two different things
you don’t want to be visible with a
million people
you want to be credible with few hundred
people
and credibility is a lot to do with
developing trust
integrity and a way of doing things that
makes you feel
comfortable the third element
that we discussed is you have to protect
your reputational capital this is
essential
your reputation is fundamentally what
people say is about you when not in the
room
and it’s a lot to do is define but what
you’re not prepared to do
in order to achieve whatever goals you
you set yourself to
um this is absolutely important and if
you think about
our professional and personal value
the ppv is equal to knowledge capital
plus relationship capital multiplied
by reputational capital so the question
is
why multiplied well because we know that
a number multiplied by zero
remains zero so the reputational capital
is incredibly important and you have to
preserve and you curate
in a impeccable way
so your professional and personal value
is therefore equal to your
knowledge capital plus relationship
capital
multiplied by the reputational capital
so is this formula the results over
20 years of analysis and studies gonna
get me at the nobel prize
i don’t think so i don’t think so this
is the result of an experience and some
reflection that i want to share with you
a few years ago i was surrounded by my
boss
and i really thought that he wanted to
discuss the
work that i’ve done during the weekend
because he has the habit to ask me to
work
over the weekend as i enter into his
office
he looked at me and he said you need to
leave
i remain silent and after a few seconds
of
disbelief i ask her can you tell me why
and his answer was i don’t have time
to dwell into details go
so i left his office and uh with the
distinct
feeling that he enjoyed that
conversation
that to me was in the conversation was
an execution
it was really terrible i wasn’t only
fired
i was i believe obliterated and then i
left this organization
literally a couple of days later i still
believe that in my 32 years experience
it’s been the most traumatic experience
of my professional life
i have to confess that the week
following
this day were terrible
i didn’t sleep i was desperate upset
i didn’t sleep many times and these are
the tears that was referring
at the beginning of the speech then one
day
i was walking along the lake
i remembered that many years before my
daughter
came to me she was five at the time and
she asked a very simple question the
question was
daddy where do i found happiness
daddy where do i found happiness as of i
was tempted to tell her ask mommy
but then my wife gave me quite a hard
look so i decided not to
and so a few days later i wrote her a
very short story
that i’m going to share with you so many
years ago
the god of darkness met in a secret
place
and their objective was to hide
happiness
from humankind one of the gods suggested
to hide happiness on the top of the
mountains
and after a few minutes the other god
said you know what
it’s not gonna work because human being
eventually would be able to climb the
mountains
and he will be able to find happiness
few minutes later another god suggested
to hide
happiness at the bottom of the sea
and sure enough the other one they said
listen
it’s not going to work because
eventually
eventually men will be able to go at the
bottom of the sea and find
happiness a few moment of silence
occurred and then the most vicious
of these gods said i know where to hide
happiness
we can i have happiness in the bottom of
people’s heart
because they will be so busy in climbing
mountains
and going at the bottom of the sea they
will forget to look into their heart
that’s the story that i told my my
daughter to say listen
you have to find happiness in the bottle
of your heart
so 10 years later after writing the
story the story became relevant to me
and i realized that actually the battle
that i needed to find
and to vote wasn’t a battle outside of
me
against somebody but inside of me
for my own sake and allow me to say also
for my own
sanity and for the one of my family it
was not a difficult moment
and that’s related to the tears and the
sweat that i mentioned the beginning
so i realized that if i needed to take
care of myself
i needed to further develop my knowledge
capital
i needed to reinforce my relationship
capital
and i need to protect my reputational
capital
and all of a sudden the game changed my
inner game
changed completely i start to find
meaning
in a place that probably i couldn’t find
it before
and and i realized that my heart little
by little was not filled with toxic
poison
anymore but with happiness
and with the purpose that perhaps i lost
her
before i found out that when you climb
the mountains
like the one that was trying to climb
myself i was able to find
and to keep my faith in myself
after losing my innocence i found out
that
what i was saying that what it was doing
and what it was thinking was in the same
place
i found out that my search for meaning
was completed
i start again to breathe i start again
to smile
and i was free so
thanks for listening