A new Post Career Mash Up 4 was written on the January 29, 2014 at 7:30 AM on Music Career Juice. Another collection of interesting content to help inform music career development (and career growth in general). *A Call for ‘Synthesizing Minds’* “In the old-style repetitive economy, most people’s work could only be done with other people’s capital resources. Most people were employees dependent on land-owners, patrons, financial capital or large bureaucracies. In the creative economy, the physical capital required for production is distributed more widely and more equitably throughout society. Everyone has a brain. Murray Gell-Mann, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969, says the most important resource in the twenty-first century is a ‘synthesising mind’ which can decide what is important, rejecting everything else, follow it up and make sense of it and then communicate it to others.” _A Whole New Mind, p. 38_ I have always marveled at the ‘musician mind’ which seems to have an unusual facility with bringing disparate _pieces_ (keys, notes, stresses, lyrics and other subtleties) into a _whole_ (arrangement, composition, song). Could this be an illustration of the ‘synthesizing mind’? I think so. * * *Why Millennial Women Are Burning Out At Work By 30* These early career flameouts are reflected through the corporate ladder. Today, 53% of corporate entry-level jobs are held by women, a percentage that drops to 37% for mid-management roles and 26% for vice presidents and senior managers, according to McKinsey research. Men are twice as likely as women to advance at each career transition stage. One rationale is that men are more likely than women to do things that help their personal wellbeing at work, thus negating burnout, according to the Captivate Network. Men are 25% more likely to take breaks throughout the day for personal activities, 7% more likely to take a walk, 5% more likely to go out to lunch, and 35% more likely to take breaks “just to relax.” It seems relaxation is something Millennial women have never experienced. One reason that women are burning out early in their careers is that they have simply reached their breaking point after spending their childhoods developing well-rounded resumes. As reported at Forbes [1] *The Bittersweet in Crowdsourcing.* *“*Crowdsourcing turns on the presumption that we are all creators – artists, scientists, architects, and designers, in any combination or order. It holds the promise to unleash the latent potential of the individual to excel at more than one vocation, and to explore new avenues for creative expression. Indeed, it contains the potential- or alternatively, the threat- of rendering the idea of a vocation itself an industrial-age artifact.” _Crowdsourcing_ [2]by Jeff Howe. 0307396215 I think a better word choice here would have been “occupation” rather than “vocation” (from the Latin, _vocare,_ calling). The industrial age job categories are under threat, not necessarily the “callings” of people. Though creative workers today need a fresh set of ears to actually ‘hear’ the new callings. * * *A Great Illustration of* *Digital Disruption* *“*Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for as billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that those middle-class jobs created? …Instagram isn’t worth a billion dollars just because those thirteen employees are extraordinary. Instead, its value comes from the millions of users who contribute to the network without being paid for it. Networks need a great number of people to participate in them to generate significant value. But when they have them, only a small number of people get paid. That has the net effect of centralizing wealth and limiting overall economic growth.” _Who Owns the Future? [3] _by Jaron Lanier. * * *The Pro-Active Career Manager* *“*On an intellectual level, you probably know that you should be managing your career just as you would your own business. After all, the idea of Me Inc. has been around for more than 10 years. However, in our career and personal branding practices, we consistently encounter business professionals who have not internalized this concept enough to actually change their career-management _behavior. _ Some of these individuals understand that they should think and act differently, but they aren’t sure which career-management tools and techniques are most effective. Others simply haven’t had to start managing their careers differently; they’ve advanced easily through referrals from their network, and opportunity has just appeared at their feet. Still others aren’t technology-savvy. For example, a person who hasn’t had to look for a job in the past five years might be unsure of how to use the Internet effectively in a search for new opportunities. Inexperience about online job hunting abounds because too many people wrongly assume that they can just post their resume on a job board and then sit back and wait for the perfect opportunity to present itself.” _Career Distinction: Standing Our By Building Your Brand_ [4] by William Arruda and Kirsten Dixson._ _ _ _ * A **Global Paradox* In the past, communities formed along geographical lines. But in the decades after World War II, a number of factors conspired to break the bonds that held these communities together. Freeways, airplanes, telephones, and television all played their part in eroding geography’s dominant role in organizing human affairs. Membership in social institutions such as bridge clubs and Elks lodges plummeted. People found themselves increasingly isolated – islands in a suburban sea. Robert Putnam, a Harvard political scientist, argued in his best-selling book _Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community_ [5]that was communities disintegrated, so did our collective stock of “social capital,” the difficult-to-quantify but very real economic value derived from borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbor or helping a friend find a job. In this context, the spread of the personal computer seemed like one more nail in the coffin of a robust civic life. But just under the radar screen something magical was occurring. Communities were re-forming. By the late 1990’s, the Internet was beginning to foster entirely new communities organized along lines of affinity. Sailing enthusiasts from Bangkok to Bangor could meet, become friends, and wind up engaging in all the gossip, chatter, and general exchange of information that formerly took place in person. More recently, new types of communities have materialized that are both local and wired at the same time. * **Why We Are All Freelancers Today:* • you’re only as good as your last project • you must constantly distinguish yourself rather than conform • you don’t wait for job assignments; you create them • you seek strength in yourself, not in circumstances Go for it. Links: ------ [1] forbes/sites/larissafaw/2011/11/11/why-millennial-women-are-burning-out-at-work-by-30/ [2] amazon/dp/0307396215/?tag=musicbusinesssol [3] amazon/dp/1451654960/?tag=musicbusinesssol [4] amazon/dp/0470128186/?tag=musicbusinesssol [5] amazon/dp/0743203046 /?tag=musicbusinesssol mcareerjuice/2014/01/career-mash-up-4/
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