Every Business Looking for Super Stars

These are unusual times and they are going to get more unusual.

29,000 years ago when the first Asians crossed the land bridge to Alaska, man was still clubbing its prey to death and was nomadic. It took a long time before he learned to raise his own meat and grow his own vegetables. He had time.

Today a more immediate transformation for high pay job seekers is needed to fulfill the limited amount of opportunities in growing businesses. More jobs are being fulfilled by technology that can answer the known data and do it quicker than humans.

What is needed now are advanced human skills.

Now to be useful to growing firms, only those who have demonstrated a new level of skills, curiosity, inspiration, and social intelligence are going to flourish in a very competitive market place. An M.B.A. might be too myopic for the new work place.

Most businesses have realized that unless you are a service business catering to local communities, you are probably in a global competition. Everyone wants to export their knowledge, services or products and current technology makes everyone a player.

The American consumer is less a factor now to American business. Even General Motors just reported that their sales in China exceed sales in the U.S.

Jeremy Allaire, chairman and chief executive of Brightcove, an online video platform for Web sites, in an interview with Adam Bryant of the NY Times said he looks for some core competencies and characteristics in his hires.

He wants intelligence. These days, intelligence is not just left brain competencies in math, science, and language. Intelligence is intellectual, creative, global, and street smart all wrapped into a nice package.

The intelligence of today’s worker must contain a curiosity of how things work, why they work, which direction we are going, and how to get things done. The valuable player today must create a value added component to rise above minimum wage. Today’s valuable hire has an expansive view of the world and of their industry and how they can contribute.

They spend the time to develop their creative skills, have discipline, and strong work ethics. Each person is in a sense their own president and must create a full spectrum of talents, insights, and collaborative skills.

The work place for high income is no longer a track meet, it is the Olympics.

Jeremy says “I’m in a unique position in that I have a view across every dimension of the business. And so you have conversations about different parts of the business and you see how quickly they can connect to it, parse it and ask good questions about it. If they ever say, “Yeah, I don’t really know much about that,” that’s a real problem.”

As the world has downsized, the new generation of customer wants brands that show not only quality but a concern for the environment and their community. There is a need for kindness and care.

The same consideration is necessary in the work place. Business wants people who play well with others and understand how to contribute without getting their egos involved.

As Jeremy adds: “Another attribute, which has been really important from a cultural perspective, is that I want people who are nice, who are genuinely good people, who have humility.”

Developing core competencies becomes more important in the competitive market for high paying jobs. Understanding what you do best and expanding your skills in and out of your expertise makes you more valuable for the over whelmed nature of today’s competitive environement.

We read about the battles between Google, Face Book, Microsoft, or Apple, Verizon, AT&T and Dell and know that these are the visible competitions for supremacy and survival. Underneath in the businesses we don’t read about, the struggle is the same.

Individuals need to increase intensity in that they are the cells that power the larger organisms. The personal characteristics of health, fitness, and creativity combined with the willingness to contribute and become a team player are essential to create peak performance. Each person should also have their world view and understand the value of community and contributing to the larger good as they perform even the smallest services.

The peak performer has flow in his daily activities as he focuses on activities and has confidence in his ability to perform the duties required. Happiness has been shown a requisite to top performance and so peak performers have a value system that is centered in appreciation, positive thinking, and optimism.

The post crisis performer now sees the necessity for self reliance, responsibility, and accountability.  The new player is excited about their opportunities and wants to create an important role for their talents and world vision.

The economy will be tougher before it gets a lot better and it will be led by people who have shed past concepts and transformed into the future design of peak performers.

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