Personal Innovation as Career-fit
Discover Pairs of Opposite Themes of career experience and beyond
There are many ways for achieving personal innovation. One way is reflecting on your career experience. Inspired by a previous article Platform Innovation as Concept-fit, I created the above diagram for my own personal innovation.
I use Career-fit to name this new framework. The Career-fit framework has four key words: Experience > Themes > Projects > Opportunities. It roughly suggests the following five steps for personal innovation:
- Reflect on career experience
- Discover pairs of opposite themes
- Fit all pairs of opposite themes
- Join or initiate relevant projects
- Fit career themes with career opportunity
The above diagram shows three Pairs of Opposite Themes of my career experience.
- China v.s. America
- Theory v.s. Practice
- Concept v.s. Diagram
If you read my previous articles, you probably know a term called Themes of Practice. The term refers to a bridge between individual life themes and collective cultural themes. Anthropologist Morris Opler (1945) developed a theoretical “themes” for studying culture. Career counseling therapists and…