Outline
Introduction and background
Difficulties of integrating into the society
More opportunity than before
More competition
Three main factors for success
Introduction and background
There are multiple factors affecting one’s success and it is up to every person to find what best fits their personal and professional needs. Given the rapidly changing reality over the past decade, the keys to success have become more exquisite and necessitated one’s wit and flexibility. This essay will address the core challenges and opportunities in today’s hectic environment.
Difficulties of integrating into the society
Even though technologies and innovations have crossed time and geographical limits and made the world open, many people find it difficult to integrate into the society. Within a professional environment, many employees have trouble while adjusting their aspirations to organizational needs and goals. This is when proper human resource management approaches come at hand. For an organization of any level, it is rather important to determine the right place and role for every staff member. Corporate management should show that every employee is important for and organization while their work and contributions benefit organization. Thus, it is very important for HR managers to motivate and lead the staff properly. Flexible situational leadership best meets diverse demands of today’s professional environments while corporate leaders to their most to arrange proper contact and communication with the subordinates. Once an organization respects its employees and ensures proper work-life balance, the latter become more dedicated to corporate goals and show better outcomes. Corporate leaders and HR managers should establish comfortable working environment wherein everyone feels like at home. In this respect, the best company to work for is Google. Their corporate environment (internal organization) has everything an employee would like to have to ensure their personal and professional needs. They ensure personal and professional growth of their diverse staff by sharing experience and promoting informal communication within an entire organizational structure regardless of one’s position in the company.
Providing that an employee is happy with his/her work, they will feel satisfied in life and capable of meeting their other needs. The one who feels professionally fulfilled rarely experience difficulties of integrating within wider society. Professional development brings a sense of stability and personal importance, and so one’s belonging to a professional environment is among the main keys to success.
More opportunity than before
Cutting-edge technologies and innovations have enriched us with far more opportunities than decades ago. While it is clear that we should use them as the keys to personal and professional success, too many people waste precious time on playing video games, chatting online, and social networking. Few of us can properly plan a working day and turn it into a fulfilling experience. Mostly, rather than an opportunity of professional growth, handy gadgets turn into time stealers. The sad truth is that most of us spend too much time in front of the screens wasting time on useless chatting or browsing the tones of information that does not affect our life in any way (Carroll and Buchholtz 47-50).
Given this, it is rather important to turn technology, innovations and social networks into effective opportunities that will benefit us, save our time and costs, and ease our routines. We should think of how to operate all the technological advancements that can benefit us rather than get enslaved by them. For this, the key to success is managing one’s time in a way that technologies and gadgets contribute to everything we have planned rather than steal our time and make us tired (Herzberg 112).
More competition
With more technological advancements, we all experience more competition in virtually all occupations. To reach personal and professional fulfillment, it is rather important to set one’s own pace and progress gradually. Systematic and stable development is much better than reaching something by leaps and bounds. One’s systematic progress is the best answer to ever-growing competition on a job market. If a person steadily develops professionally, he/she is sure to find a fine job eventually. At that, psychologists and HR managers warn that an opportunity will not knock one’s door twice. Thus, it is important to feel the moment and grasp the right opportunity under way.
While climbing on the bandwagon is a popular choice, still there are people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs who thought outside the box and decided to reach beyond normal. This indicates that regardless of corporate stability and professional growth one may get in a company, it is rather important to develop one’s creativity and hidden talents deeply inside us. Still, one should keep the right balance between professional duties that earn us money and our inner creative ambitions or hobbies we are eager to fulfill. This means that another key to success is in maintaining a balance between the harsh reality and our dreams to withstand competition and keep afloat (Maslow 375).
Three main factors for success
The decisive factor for reaching success is one’s inner strive or motivation to achieve more than we have now. An invisible inherent driver triggers us to do our duties, face challenges, and grow. It is impossible to develop either personally or professionally without this inner trigger. Many associate it with a dream that lives within us and drives us to get better. Therefore, it is crucial that one sets a dream that will daily drive his/her actions and set the right direction in life. Without a dream, life is a journey without destination through which we lose much time and resources without a purpose.
The next critical component of success consists in overall harmony with everything. Successful people are happy and harmonized with the world and things around them. They never complain and take problems as opportunities of personal and professional development. The thing is that they are peaceful within and know how to overcome the strains and hardships of daily hectic routines with inherent calmness and peace. Thus, inner harmony is an essential marker of a successful person and a key to one’s success. Without it, we are prone to continuous turbulence in life that generates problems, illnesses, conflicts, controversies and misunderstandings.
The third key to success consists in realizing one’s potential. While we are all dreamers and would like to have more, few can realistically assess their real capacity and be well with what they have. Of course, one should always strive for more, though still a successful person known his/her limit and is able to balance their capacity and ambitions. Too ambitious people are great achievers, however, only those of them who clearly realize their might and worth. Otherwise, ambitions enslave us and turn into perpetual dreamers rather than actors. Clearly realizing one’s place and role in life is a prerequisite of personal and professional progress. This is an essential key to success while everyone is with different potential (Burnes 225).
Conclusion
This essay addressed essential issues related to personal and professional growth and the core keys to success in today’s world. While our reality is rapidly changing, one should seek his/her own mission in this life and fill it right. The keys to success are in everyone’s hands, and what one needs is to try to open the door of life until one day it turns right.
- Burnes, B. Managing Change: A Strategic Approach to Organisational Dynamics 4th Edition, FT Prentice Hall. 2004. Print.
- Carroll, A., Buchholtz, A. Business and Society: Ethics and Stakeholder Management. 5th ed. Australia: Thomson South-Western, 2003. Print.
- Herzberg, F. The Motivation to Work, New York, John Wiley and Sons. 1959. Print.
- Maslow, A. A Theory of Human Motivation Psychological Review, Vol. 50, NO. 4, pp. 370-396. 1943. Print.
