25 Things Every Young Professional Should Know by Age 25. Great article, our favorite is #16

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Yahoo invited press today to a product event in New York saying only that it will "share something special" soon after reports that the company is going to buy blog platform Tumblr.

It seems Yahoo has been very product-focused in the months since Marissa Mayer both took the chief executive corner office and demanded that critical employees not work from home.

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Nvidia jumped the gun today, announcing you can now preorder their handheld Shield console three days earlier than previously publicized.

At $350, Nvidia’s Shield is an interesting gaming device. On the one hand, it’s a bit pricey as an Android gaming device. On the other hand, it’s a nifty mobile console, allowing you to stream compatible PC games from your desktop to the Shield (still in Beta) or to any HDTV via HDMI.

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The young people in your company are ready to lead. Here’s how to prepare them for the responsibility.

 

My first combat mission with my Navy SEAL platoon was to secure a hydroelectric power plant in Northern Iraq. My role on this mission was to guide the helicopter pilots over the landing zone and manage the fast rope insertion for our assault team. At the time, I thought this was a lot of responsibility for a new guy. What I figured out after we nailed our landing, and after many other successful missions, is that age has very little to do with leadership ability.

The SEAL Teams are a relatively flat organization. Everyone goes through the same grueling training, and everyone is trained to lead regardless of age or rank. In the business world, emergent leadership is about team members taking the initiative to accept more responsibility and perform work outside of their general roles. If we, as leaders, encourage and promote this type of drive, our young team members will be ready to rise within the organization, and our companies will be better off for it.

Here are four ways we can prepare our young people for leadership:

• Showcase their talent. Don’t hide your young leaders. Show them to the world. Let them be the face of your company. Encourage them to contribute to the company blog or industry publications, take training courses, speak at conferences and trade shows, and collaborate on ways to improve company systems and offerings.
• Manage them, not their work. If you have the right people in the right jobs, don’t micromanage their efforts. Set boundaries and then back off. Allow them to be innovative and develop systems, processes, and methodologies that will get the job done. Doing this will not only result in a more confident team and better retention, but will give your team members a sense of ownership that they wouldn’t get by simply following orders.
• Let them fail.  While providing guidance and leadership, we must also allow for failure. Encourage your young leaders to take calculated risks when appropriate. When things don’t go as planned, use that as a coaching opportunity to help them understand how to succeed in the future. Any successful entrepreneur knows that they have gained the most wisdom through their mistakes.
• Link their effort to tangible results. Real leaders want to know exactly how their role affects the growth of the company. As you develop leaders, give them goals and milestones to hit so they understand the roadmap for success. Ensure that they know exactly how their efforts and results drive the company forward. As they develop in leadership roles, they will know how they got there and where they need to go next.

Let’s encourage our young team members and provide them the resources for success. If we can build our emerging leadership teams from loyal employees who started at the bottom, then our companies will be stronger and have a more loyal foundation for growth.

~Navy SEAL combat veteran Brent Gleeson

Consensus building: Abraham Lincoln was such a phenomenal leader because he understood the  importance of consensus building and bringing together the people around him to  help make up for his weaknesses. “The fallacy of leadership is thinking that if  you can lead in one area you can lead in all areas, and you know all the  answers.” Maxwell says. “This is simply not true. The new generation of leaders needs to be  consensus builders by walking slowly through the crowd and valuing the opinions  of others before making any decision.”

Humility: “All great leaders are  humble,” Maxwell says. “Instead of talking about their own accomplishments,  leaders are looking to give the team the credit.”

Risk taking: Leaders are not afraid to  step out and say this is what needs to be done. Another of Maxwell’s favorite  leaders was Winston Churchill, who stood alone against Parliament, maintaining  Nazism’s threat to Europe when many people considered it a mere nuisance.  “Churchill had the courage to go against the grain, against the trend, against  the current,” Maxwell says. “He had the courage to do what he felt was right  even in the midst of severe opposition.”

CNN recently released a report that gathered that data for thousands of jobs and determined the “best” jobs in the U.S. this year. Does your dream job fall on the list? Could you see yourself doing one of the following? Let’s take a look at the jobs, their median pay, their 10-year growth rate, and number of total jobs:

1.     Biomedical Engineer–$79,500, 61.7% growth, 15,700 jobs

2.     Marketing Consultant–$92,100, 41.2% growth, 282,700 jobs

3.     Software Architect–$119,000, 24.6% growth, 3,426,000 jobs

4.     Clinical Research Associate–$90,700, 36.4% growth, 100,000 jobs

5.     Database Administrator–$87,200, 30.6% growth, 110,800 jobs

6.     Financial Advisor–$90,200, 32.1% growth, 206,800 jobs

7.     Market Research Analyst–$63,100, 41.2% growth, 282,700 jobs

8.     Physical Therapist–$76,700, 39% growth, 198,600 jobs

9.     Software Developer–$84,200, 24.6% growth, 3,426,000 jobs

10.  Occupational Therapist–$74,900, 33.5% growth, 108,800 jobs

Some of these jobs might seem more appealing or glamorous than others. Pay is tempting, of course, but it’s a good idea to keep in mind that money doesn’t necessarily equal happiness. It could be more rewarding to settle for lower pay in exchange for more daily enjoyment and satisfaction.

At least one of these jobs, Marketing Consultant, is very close to what we do here at Magnetic Consulting.  Check out our Career Builder page for more details!

ALS was first described in 1869 but it was not nationally recognized until 1939 when Lou Gehrig abruptly retired from baseball after being diagnosed with the disease. Most commonly, the disease strikes people between the ages of 40 and 70, and as many as 30,000 Americans have the disease at any given time.

Established in 1985, The ALS Association is the only national non-profit organization fighting Lou Gehrig’s Disease on every front.  By leading the way in global research, providing assistance for people with ALS through a nationwide network of chapters, coordinating multidisciplinary care through certified clinical care centers, and fostering government partnerships, The Association builds hope and enhances quality of life while aggressively searching for new treatments and a cure.

This weekend the ALS Association is showcasing their new center in Sacramento.  There will be several events at the center including a firebreather, silent and live auctions, and refreshments.

The team at Magnetic Consulting Group plans to have a lot of fun while helping the ALS reach their fundraising goals.  It should be a blast!