This document discusses designing your career and career challenges. It introduces design thinking as starting with people and using creative tools like storytelling and prototyping to deliver innovations. It then discusses perspective and reframing problems, noting that we cannot solve problems with the same thinking used to create them. Various career challenges are presented, along with factors that can affect career choices and finding purpose to guide career decisions. Quotes provided emphasize enjoying your work and feeling you are contributing something worthwhile.

1. Designing Your Career
Discover the career that you are aspiring for…
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What is Design Thinking…
Design thinking is about accelerating innovation to
create better solutions for the challenges
faced by business and society.
It starts with people - what we call human centered
design - and applied the creative tools of design, like
storytelling, prototyping, and experimentation to
delivery new breakthrough innovations.
Tim Brown
CEO, IDEO

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Design vs Design Thinking
Design a ‘product’ that will help
to place flowers on centre-table
Design flower arrangement for
your home to celebrate a
festival like ‘Diwali’ /
‘Dussehra’
Design flower arrangement that
can create pleasant and vibrant
home environment and make
guests cheerful.

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Design Thinking Mind-set
“We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them”
- Albert Einstein

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It’s a Process
Be Curious Try Stuff Reframe
Ask for Help Tell Your Story

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Perspective
Are We Willing to Challenge Our Perspective about the Challenge?

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Career Challenges…
How Might We enable individuals
to explore enriching, engaging and fulfilling career options and pursue them
Where am I
What’s my purpose
of my career
What kind of
activities excites me
most
What kind of
assignment I want
to work in next 3-5
years
How am I going to
achieve the same

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Reframe
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To have a good career I need to ‘go
for it’ and really shoot for moon!
The secret to ‘good enough for now’
is to have a bias for action. Set the
bar low, clear it and then do it again,
and again
Good work Journal
• What did I learn
• What did I initiate
• Who did I help

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Reframe
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I must choose money or meaning
because I can’t have both
Money versus meaning is a false
dichotomy. Money and meaning are
just two different measurements of
what I value
Create Coherence
• Money
• Impact
• Expression

10. Problems
A gravity problem is a problem that is not
actionable. You will realise sooner or later
that it is unsolvable and you would be far
off better with accepting it as a reality and
find ways to work around it.
With anchor problems, although they are
actionable, we are anchored to a specific
solution and we are stuck trying to pursue
just that one, even though there are other
solutions which could give similar results.
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Reframe
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My problem at work are
insurmountable. I am totally stuck.
I am never totally stuck, because I
know how to reframe anything into a
Minimum Actionable Problem
Reframe Problem
• Accept there is always a box
• We make box when we frame the
question and with reframe we can
change the box

12. Things That Affect My Career Choices
• Family Responsibilities
• Relationship at Work
• Social Responsibilities
• Nature of assignment
• Relationship beyond work
• Professional Development
• Health
• Overseas Exposure
• Money
• Influence / Power
• Self-development
• Professional Recognition
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13. Purpose : Pole-star that Guides My Career Choice…
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“I always wanted to be successful. My definition of
being successful is contributing something to the
world… and being happy while doing it…. You have to
enjoy what you are doing. You won’t be very-good if
you don’t. And secondly you have to feel that you are
contributing something worthwhile….
If either of these ingredients are absent, there’s a
probably lack of meaning in your work.”
Norman Augustine, former CEO – Lockheed Martin

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What will you do with ‘the super power’?...

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Inspiration and Information Source…

16. Thank you for opportunity!
Hareshkumar_Amre@persistent.com
@HareshAmre