To Stay Sharp – Sharpen the Saw

I’ve just returned from my annual visit to The Aji Network Conference in South San Francisco.    This year I presented a breakout session with Ron Macklin, Director of Service Operations at Siemens Energy.   We did a 90-minute session for conference attendees on the topic of “Constitution: A Concern for Career and Business Enterprise.“  The content for our talk was based on writings and videos by Toby Hecht, founder of The Aji Network, and our session included a lively “clinic” in which the participants constituted new business concepts on the spot.

The Aji Network is a business education company that teaches students how to become knowledge-based and strategic business people so that they develop superior competitive advantage.  Ron and I are both graduates of their Business Professional’s Course and are currently members of the LEIP Program, an acronym for leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation and power!  These are just some of the capacities we seek to learn to build our careers.

Ron Macklin and Becky Jackson at The Aji Network Conference

At this annual meeting of The Aji Network, students from all classes and the online program called “Aji Space” came together to ‘celebrate’ and practice their learning.  Senior students like Ron and myself led sessions on topics relevant to building significant careers in business by learning superior strategic knowledge to enable top 1% performance.  This year’s conference theme was “Strategy and Strategic Planning.”  Today’s highly competitive and rapidly changing global marketplace requires that we as business people stay engaged in continual learning as all professionals do.  Ron and I find that contributing as session leaders is an added dimension to our learning.

The association I have with other ambitious business people at The Aji Network – people who are seeking competitive knowledge – helps me continually improve the services The Jackson Group offers to clients so that we can help them succeed with their property objectives in spite of a challenging marketplace. Without new strategic knowledge we cannot expect to help our clients compete effectively and cope successfully with the enormous challenges in the real estate business – difficult financing,  enormous competition, over supply of housing and limited demand.   With a commitment to learning and improving, we develop and innovate our services so that we maintain a standard of care for our clients that helps us all meet our objectives.  That’s why I commit the time and expense to study.

June 8, 2010 · Filed Under Broker's Corner, Business Philosophy, The Jackson Group

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2 Responses to “To Stay Sharp – Sharpen the Saw”

  1. Susan Jansson on June 23rd, 2010 4:27 pm

    Thanks Becky for all the help you have been for me with my learning in these past 6 years that I have known you through the Aji Network.

    I just saw an article in the Wall Street Journal that said in the recession times some people have had an increase in “free” time and the study showed what they were doing with it. They found that the extra time was spent on sleeping first and TV watching second. The article noted that there was an opportunity to learn more and “sharpen the saw” to prepare for the recovery and people were not spending their time studying. I appreciate the ethic that the Aji Network supports which is to continue to learn and build your knowledge and your networks of help during a down and an up market. Toby Hecht, the founder has been tremendous help for me and so have you Becky. Thank you

  2. Becky Jackson on June 24th, 2010 9:49 am

    Susan, you’re so right. Staying engaged in a learning discourse is both personally and financially rewarding. The Aji Network is the best post-graduate practice for knowledge I have done.

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