1. INTERDEPENDENCY

2. EMPOWERING YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE 1.Determining how far to take your org relationship 2.Building your job description around co-worker interdependencies 3.Interacting in pro synergy zones

3. PRO SUCCESS TOOLS Interdependency maps (see p.27 of online Virtual Teams professional manual)Virtual Teams

4. Working alone is a career breaker. Working with others is a career maker.

5. Everything in life, both personally & professionally, comes down to interdependencies. Independence exists only in naive minds.

6. Your professional IQ (Interdependency Quotient) = your capacity for success

7. Org culture = its interdependencies = community = ICONs (internal constituents) + ECONs (external constituents)

8. Interdependencies are your real (constantly evolving) job description

9. SOURCES OF PRO INTERDEPENDENCY Responsibility to/for others Project (team) work Constituent interaction Job specialization Technology

10. Can you map your job interdependencies? Your career success depends on it.

11. Pro success = Excelling in pro synergy zones Synergy = optimized pro interdependencies

12. Pro synergy occurs when employees “make plays” (create success synergies) as the result of interacting interdependently with the minds, skills, & shared agendas of ICONS or ECONs. Tony Romo is a football player only when he’s interacting on the field creating synergies (hopefully) with his team.

14. PRO SYNERGY ZONES Org-human interfaces: collaboration between org & employees Leader-follower synergy: WE > ME ICON-ECON synergy: employees serving clients * Agenda-overlap synergy

15. CYCLE OF CAREEER INTERDEPENDENCIES

16. WANNA MARRY YOUR COMPANY?

17. Stage 1. DATING A COMPANY Learning how the system works & becoming part of the system

18. Do I want to go further with this professional relationship? Do I want to experience other jobs & companies or settle for this one? The longer you date, the more marriage expectations grow.

19. Stage 2. GETTING ENGAGED TO YOUR COMPANY Serving internal org clients

20. You know your company wants to quit dating and get engaged when they offer you a major promotion (= significant new professional responsibility). “You now know our company well and have developed a positive profile through your excellent work and contributions. We want to put you in charge of our facility in Denver.”

21. Interdependency Responsibility (!) Career development hinges on your capacity to assume increasing responsibility (which gets in the way of self-focus). Marriage & life are the same way.

22. If you decide not to get engaged to a company, you gotta start dating again: building your pro profile AGAIN for another employer & ramping up your responsibilities AGAIN.

23. How much do I really want to settle down into this company & career? How do I know I can’t do better somewhere else? Am I really ready for more responsibility & higher professional productivity & expectations? What if I don’t like this job after awhile?

24. Stage 3. MARRYING YOUR COMPANY Serving external org clients

25. For their professional employees, companies want marriages, not one-night-stands. They also want short engagements.

26. Your professional performance is greatly MAGNIFIED with clients, creditors, competitors, communities, regulators, other nations, etc. Thus your RESPONSIBILITIES are also greatly magnified.

27. Am I willing to start living my life around the demands of my current organization? Am I ready for my life to be mostly about work & pro responsibility? Besides me, who else will have to make sacrifices for my professional success?

28. Stage 4. HAVING CHILDREN Responsibility for the work & success of others

29. Am I ready to be responsible for what others do & their agendas? Am I ready to rely on others to do much of my work? Am I ready to coach & mentor the careers of others?

30. Stage 5. GETTING DIVORCED (?) Quitting your job Losing your job Demotion Loss of authority

31. Divorced people find it harder to find a prime marriage partner (great company to work for) again. Professional divorces mess up your interdependencies, which must be rebuilt one-by-one in a different place with different people.

32. Should I look for a new professional marriage partner ASAP (to retain my previous pro lifestyle)? Or slow down my pro momentum to ramp up my personal life? Or start a new pro career/life?