Career Zen Chapter Ten

C a r e e r   Z e n
by Larry Daly, 'The JOB DOC'

Chapter 10.   How to Become an Expert

Experts get paid more, enjoy more prestige, perks, autonomy, etc. To become an authority in your field, just write about it, then become a spokesperson, appear on news tv, and in specials and features, etc.
Author = authority.

In academic circles you must publish or perish. In most other careers you do not have to be a college professor to be known as an expert or authority in your career subject. All you have to do is write and have a dozen or so articles published about it. The word 'authority' comes from the word 'author'.
To be able to write well about something, you do have to know it well, and in effect, actually be something of an expert in it, with or without any advanced degrees. It does not matter whether these articles or features are in national or small local publications. Most people usually accept an article in any publication as affidavit of your proficiency and knowledge, as long as the article itself is accurate about facts, and reasonably good. Any editor will want quality, or will not accept a story. If you can satisfy him, you're in. So start with the smallest; get any rag to give you a byline. And work up as best you can from there. It still will not be easy, but with a little tenacity, five or six bylined articles in a year are possible. Don't worry about making any money from the first few -- all you want to do is get some bylines, in order to establish your credibility. By a year from now, knowing several hundred people, and their friends, among whom, by intent or accident, will be at least one publisher, or by using the names of those you know who do matter, you should be there, or close. And, by interviewing name people in your "people to meet" files, you 'meet' them. Keep at it. The money will come automatically, with recognition of your specialized expertise.
Make copies of every item published and tout them as best you can, escalating to better quality publications. And get your Career Support Study Team to help you,and to tout you. Praise is always much better when it comes from someone else. You know this. Use it.
Following are some questions and cues to help you gather and write your articles or book about your career specialty, or any other subject, to make you into an expert. Matter of fact, when you have done the necessary research and answered and written out the answers to most of these questions, you will indeed actually BE a real expert on it.
People always respect an expert or authority in any field, and companies often pay them high fees for speeches and other use of their knowledge, such as consulting.
After five years in any career, you should be able to easily answer most of the following questions about your specialty, your company, your industry, or know where to find the best answers quickly. If you cannot, then you should seriously consider boning up, to make yourself more valuable to your company, other companies, the media, and, most of all, to yourself.
The following exercises will help you do so. In fact, since one of the marks of an expert is becoming a published magazine and book author in his field, the questions and exercises in this checklist are designed to help you write such articles or books, which will then bring you that recognition, and the raises, promotions, better jobs, commissions, consultancy and speaking fees and other results of holding expert status.
Since this is a checklist designed to be applied to many kinds of careers, it might sound vague or over demanding in some, so it is up to you to interpret it in light of your own particular career, employer, industry, or product or service, and complete it accordingly.
My rationale should be obvious: The purpose of this questionnaire is to make you think in terms of questions, to be aggressive toward information, to list and order and question and be skeptical about it, to get the facts and find corroboration to verify them, to see relationships about things and other things, and about various aspects of the same thing, to see it completely in all its complexity and applications and context, to work within a format, a structure, a method and system, a matrix or lattice with which one can organize information for pertinence and selection about any and every subject. These days there is too much information, coming too fast, too easily available, and it is so random and varied that it will confuse and sink you, unless you can get hold of it and make sense out of it so you can use it for your own purpose, whatever that may be. With a method (any kind of method is better than none, though some methods are better than others), you can understand it as a whole, not as just noise, not jumbled erratica, so you can see inherent and/or applied meaning and use it, see or make value out of it, apply it toward some purpose.
Only when you can see how to use information can it have any real (not merely potential) value to you, and make sense in some way or other. Only when something makes sense to you, personally, directly or indirectly, can you truly learn it. Otherwise, it is merely . . .   static?
You do not have to answer every question in my 'expert' check list below. That would be impossible. But you should try to do as many as you can, as you see and interpret them, to obtain major personal profit from this work, and so that skeptical and critical questioning and doing research becomes automatic, second nature, instinctive in every aspect, thus top quality.
No single list of questions could cover every subject or every possible aspect of your chosen career, but this collection is a good enough beginning in that direction, for your practical purposes. Several very important questions have been deliberately left out, of course, and as you work you will discover them and decide whether to include them.   By the end of the program you will have realized what is needed, and supplied them for yourself, and hopefully also discovered other valid questions we would never have thought of using. I cannot give you everything; you must strive and strain for yourself, to stretch and grow better.
Hopefully I am also provoking you to create an even better tool than this for questioning information, sources, authority, etc., and finding your own better answers, and thus learning more than you could ever be taught.
Note: This check list, or any part of this book, can not possibly be complete, exact, or ever finished, but is a work in progress. As such, if you can submit legitimate additions or corrections or suggestions (in writing) for the next edition of this book, whether they are used or not, I offer free personal career coaching sessions, or even cash awards if you prefer. Call me first for details: (212) 876-5483.

The Art Of The Query
It has often been said: "Ask the right questions and you will get the right answers." The art of learning anything, whether for yourself or to write about it, is basically the technique of asking good questions, meaning pertinent, critical, perceptive, useful, leading to understanding.
Whether you are interviewing a person or searching text for something, asking good questions is an art you must learn.
The following checklist is a basic sample from which to start and build your own querying abilities.
Always be aware that the material you gather may be partially or completely or conditionally true or false, error or outright lie, or even change during the phases of the process of studying it, or according to your increase of knowledge as you learn more about it or as you view it from different perspectives or applications.
You can also use the following as a starting checklist (altering it as appropriate) to create a short intensive course to be given by you to rank beginners, designed to bring your students up to a good practical working level of knowledge on your career or subject as fast as possible. Do not write out the course, but research the following as applicable, and whatever more is needed, and place all the material in logical order so that if you did have to write out and give the course you could do so with minimum additional preparation.
That's the way to become a real expert, on anything.

My Personal 'Expert' Checklist
[Note: I originally designed this check list for the use of my SASS Study Teams and LAPs Program. To adapt it for your own personal Career Support Team use, simply ignore my S-Team references, and make any other changes appropriate to your needs.]
1. Research the art, science, and business of your career, company, product, service, industry; obtain usual 'who, what, where, when, why, and how' facts, and write out a brief report, discourse on, agreeing with experts and others or presenting your own ideas, opinions, backed up with real-life information, examples, etc.
2. If, and as they apply, what are the current real market costs and wholesale and retail prices for your product, service, or other result of your career? Explain, with examples. Is it taxed in any way? Local? State? Federal? How much, and, if it applies, how much of each? What are the prices and costs in east and west and specific cities or areas for comparison? Where do you get the best deal? Are there any other difficulties (professional memberships, certification, licenses, etc.) or financial prerequisites or fees, etc., for obtaining or using it? Volume discounts? What do trends look like in costs, pricing, etc.? Should I buy now, sell, or wait?
3. Report and discuss the major and basic premises and generalities and principles of your career, company, products, service, industry; the current most popular ideas and hottest new theories, with explanation and reasoning.
4. What are the principal tools, instruments, methods, systems, machines, materials, and what does each do, or is done with, its place in the process, etc.?
5. Chart / discuss the changing design, use, need of your career, company, product, service, industry, by different social and sex and age groups, at different times and places.
6. Compare your career, company, product, service, industry in England, America, and at least 10 other nations, 2 of which must be African, 2 Asian, 2 South American. Are some parts, principles, usages, ideas, universal or does each country have its own system and details, different from all others? List differences, similarities, possible reasons for, etc.
7. Cite personal experience, observed cases/examples, with specific details, in use of it, involvement in it, etc.
8. What do or can police, politicians, clergy, others*, do with or about your career, company, product, service, industry? (*Select a dozen or more other professions at random, and the general public, genders, age groups, etc.)
9. Can average persons use or cope with your career, company, product, service, industry without training? With training? List the requirements for such training, with your reasoning, explanations, examples . . .
10. List the classic or major basic books in this and the included and related fields, as if you were writing a bibliography designed to provide the necessary background and basics to a new student of your career, company, product, service, industry, and recommend at last two for your students as required reading. If they need not read the whole book, tell what chapters or pages to study.
11. List the most recent five or ten books of value, and recommend two or three which, read after one or more of the above classics, would bring the student up to the current state of the art, almost expert, in your career, company, product, service, industry.
12. List and briefly describe the major periodicals in your field, the publishers of them, rates, dates, readership profiles, demographics, differences between them, and recommend at least two monthly or weekly ones for your students to subscribe to bring them up to the minute on developments in your career, company, product, service, industry.
13. List the main catalogues of materials, tools, etc., and how good (educational, informative, general, technical, etc.) each is on your career, company, product, service, industry. Submit copies of drawings, instruction manuals, tool & materials lists, etc., if they apply.
14. List all the things you do not know about this subject. List what actions you should take to improve yourself in this subject, besides researching it, writing about it and building a course in it? Develop a checklist to evaluate yourself and others in this subject, and the steps necessary to become professional at it.
15. List all of the relationships involved in this subject, as between a and b, b and c, c and d, a and c, a and d, b and c, b and d, etc., where a, b, c, etc. are sellers, buyers, users, managers, workers, employees, employers, government, watchdogs, lawyers and laws, research and development, designers, economics, and any other factors that apply. Follow the results of a decision, and action taken, across department lines and other artificial and systemic barriers, through a company, company and community, public uses and applications, looping back results as the act causes other problems as well as benefits. What was an original problem, and how well solved? What ripple effects in the circular result track eventually come back in the end to affect the original actor or company, etc., and how? Also follow result lines of a non-decision default action or non-action, including such things as programmed trader computer programs, etc.,
16. List major local, national, and international firms, organizations, associations, government departments, and professional (and amateur, if any) clubs in this field; with size and importance, facilities, membership profiles, of each.
17. List the most respected and well-known authors and experts in your field, the work each has done or is known best for, principles and theories each has been given credit for, whether innovative, scholarly, theoretical, practical, etc.
18. List the more controversial and dissenting authors, experts, and other contributors to the literature of your career, company, product, service, industry, with some information on what each has done, his principles, argument, basis for dissent or controversy, whether or how he has caused changes, improvements, etc.
19. List the best consultants or experts presently working in your career, company, product, service, industry, and what each does, specializes in, his rates, and other considerations which would help us to choose or hire the right one(s) to do some work we might require in it.
20. What are salary ranges and other benefits and drawbacks to working in this field, or which are involved?
21. What education and training are required for different levels and kinds of work in this career or business? What professional criteria must such people meet?
22. Businessmen and most other people are often impressed by numbers and facts: collect all you can on your career, and arrange them impressively, with forecasts.
23. Who uses and does not use your career, company, product, service, industry and how, why, at what cost, for what?
24. What is the origin of your career, company, product, service, industry? Who (did or might have) invented or created it, and why or how or under what circumstances, for what purpose? What if it did not exist? What did people do before it existed? Is it critical or crucial to the existence of mankind (scale of 0-9) or of great value in only certain areas or at certain times (specify them)? Is there something which could replace or substitute for it? If not, why not? Tell a story about such a situation, as if it existed today, in fictional terms.
25. Who are the most famous persons in this field? Their major competitors? Who got the most people interested in or involved in it? Who are some other major people in or using your career, company, product, service, industry? What are their major accomplishments, achievements, losses, etc.? Who are other well-known people who use, do, are or have been involved in any way in this or related fields, in amateur or professional aspect, etc.?    Who is a famous person who uses, needs, buys, does your career, company, product, service, industry? What are best old and new ways to become famous in this field? Details.
26. Do people involved in your career, company, product, service, or industry have any unusual physical, mental, emotional abilities, aptitudes, etc., such as more than usual strength, enthusiasm, charisma, tenacity, intelligence, or what, and if so, discuss this and other aspects. Are they 'people' people or machine people, right brain or left, or what? Explain.
27. Are there many providers of this as a product or service or just a few? Why? Do they control the market, or are they subject to market demand, restrictions, or what? Explain.
28. How do you learn all about your career, company, product, service, industry? List the schools, courses, seminars, conventions, private teachers and other sources of information, learning, and such in the field. Who are the best teachers of your career, company, product, service, industry, or what courses, schools, other best ways to learn about it, practice it, get involved in it?
29. How do you get a job in your chosen career, and then how do you move up in it? What are the best jobs, some good and bad jobs in it, and what salaries, perks, requirements, benefits, hardships, etc., are involved in some of those positions? In what specific ways are they the same as and different from other fields (provide examples of both). If professional accreditation or certification is required, who gives it and what are the requirements, costs, shortcuts, who to know, etc.?
30. Who sets the standards and conventions in the field and how, and are there dissenting or branched or competing standards systems-setters, etc.?
31. Describe any rules, procedures used, necessary, valuable, in your career, company, product, service, industry. Are there formal or government control, standards, processes, restrictions, etc.? Are there side effects, dangers, risks? If so, who watchdogs this field, and how well?
32. Present past and current statistics on your career, company, product, service, and industry. What are the major trends? What appears to be the future of your career, company, product, service, industry? What are some of the major economic, social, technical, other present issues, problems, benefits, results, forecasts?
33. What is/are the absolutely latest breakthrough(s) or development(s) in your field, and what are the implications of each (and combined) for the near, mid, and distant future? What else may be the most likely and unlikely things to happen in the near, middle, and distant future in your career, company, product, service, industry?
34. What can be brought into use in this subject from what other businesses or occupations or disciplines or fields of study or trades or jobs? Explain how such idea, method, tool, trick, etc., can be used, what benefits obtained, with examples, precedents, etc. Called cross-fertilization, this technique is often used by people who have worked in two kinds of work who see applications in one job from their work in the other field, while those who have only worked in only their one field do not and can not know about such things and believe their work unique, with nothing at all in common with other kinds of work. What other kinds of work should a person in this field study to be able to cross-pollinate for some kind of benefit from that field to this one, and vice versa? What are the most similar and most different kinds of work from this field? (Several examples of each.) What do those have in common with, and how are they truly different from, this work? Describe a formal discipline of cross fertilization (methods, techniques, rules, famous people and events in . . . ), or, if it does not exist, create and describe such a discipline and tell how it should work, methods, techniques, rules, results expected, etc.
35. Who exploits others, or someone, somehow in this field? In real life someone is always using or taking advantage of or exploiting others one way or other. In this business, what scams are operating, and who does them, how, to whom, in what way? Who is the weakest person here? Is there sex exploitation, exploitation of the ignorance of the buyer, exploitation of fears or worries, exploitation of older people or of the handicapped or minority(-ies) or even reverse discrimination in operation by someone over another or others or the organization or the public? Who is using the law for his own ends? How? Explain, even if you must speculate (but label it as such). Who has some edge or advantage over others somehow? Give details. There is no business in which someone is not getting more than his share. To keep from being taken or schemed or scammed in some way, whether you are working in business, a shareholder, a customer, a manager, supplier, or involved in any way where money is being transferred somehow, you must learn about such things. The best way to keep yourself from being robbed is to learn to think like the robber, to see the chink in the armor, see it from the outside as well as the inside, so that you can protect yourself from it, develop awareness, perception, and guard yourself from major loss. Thus you are assigned the task of learning how to think like a predator by practicing to be one: you are to plan a scam in this field, find some weakness, some edge, work out some advantage over someone else, or over the system as it is practiced, or plan how to weaken the system somehow in the future, even if it is only how to take advantage of people's trust, at the very least. No business is predator-proof. You are to report on past crimes, scams, slick deals, and other such events in the history of this or related business, and on the people who perpetrated them. Even if you hear unsubstantiated rumors of such things, report these (labeled as such) and see if you can work out how it was or could have been done if it was not. What kind of fast job in related fields or other businesses could be tried here? Work out a scenario for the same in this field. Every business has a weak point. In some cases, it costs the owners less to let it happen once or once in a while, or as a dribble, than to stop or catch the perpetrator or plug the leak. Work out the math of such a situation and tell and explain what is the more economical or sensible thing to do, considering morale and man hours and prestige and other factors as well as actual dollars gained and lost, re your career, company, product, service, industry.
36. Make predictions relating to this field in as many ways as possible, including social, benefits, problems, business, technical, economic, etc., for near, mid and distant futures, with your reasoning for these conclusions and forecasts.
37. Who makes the most money in this field, and how? Who otherwise gains the most from your career, company, product, service, industry, and in what ways?
38. If one wanted to start up a business in this field, what might be a good niche to aim for, angle to try, need to fill, and how much money, staff, etc., would be required? What might be the prospect of success, profit, security, fame, other benefits, etc.? Who does insurance, legal, underwriting, other support services and requirements? Who are the major employment agencies or other sources of people experienced in this field? What additional help and information are available in or from the private sector, business, government, other sources?
39. What are (name and describe and explain each) at least 10 "tricks of the trade" in your career, company, product, service, industry? Report on insiders' stuff that the public is not aware of, but which will tell one person in the trade that he is talking to another also in the trade, and recognize each other as professionals, and can make you recognized by both as one of them.
40. What are the hottest new theories and at least 10 to 25 buzzwords in this field, and in each of at least five fields related to this subject? Origins, examples, reasons . . . ?
41. What names are classic and what names are good to 'name drop' and in what situations? Who is hot and who is not, and who liberal or conservative and who revolutionary, or old masters, etc., in your career, company, product, service, industry?
42. Name and describe and discuss several misconceptions that people have about this subject, as well as certain things that people do not know at all about it. Present a plan for reeducating the public, correcting wrong ideas, myths, or misconceptions, with samples of the lessons or other presentations you would use, word for word. Or should any of these misconceptions or myths be kept as beneficial to those in your career, company, product, service, industry, or to the public, or users? Which ones? Why? Could more or better myths or misconceptions be created for this purpose? Present at least one new myth and one new misconception, with what it does, how and why, and a plan for propagating and using it upon users or the public.
43. What does the public think of your career, company, product, service, industry? What do the media think of it and what influence does the media have over what the public thinks? If the media changed to the opposite influence tomorrow, how long would it take for the public opinion to be changed, and how could it be done, or why not if not? Explain.
44. Who are the major businesses, contractors, wholesalers, retailers, services, agencies, suppliers, jobbers, etc., in this field, if any, or who supplies equipment, materials, tools, etc. to practitioners? What are best or best known names of products, materials, etc.? Which are most expensive, cheapest, most cost effective or economical? Give names, addresses, delivery, actual prices, other details.
45. Is there in this/these field(s) any conflicts between old proven, tried and true ways and methods, and newer technology, tools, methods, ideas, principles . . . ?
46. Name and describe the latest tools, technology and machines, devices, other advances in this field, and some other breakthroughs which look imminent.
47. What other issues or conflicts or social or financial or economic or other problems are there? Define and explain.
48. Survey, interview, poll, and report on, people in this field in all levels, as well as local executives, businessmen, and others using, having anything to do with, or knowing about, your career, company, product, service, industry.
49. Report man hours used, methods, difficulties and problems, solutions, duties and contributions and hours of each helper, management techniques you have used on your helpers, mistakes you made, results, lessons learned, etc., in completing this list of work, and this whole research.
50. In designing your course on your career, make up a Q/A test for your students (with answers for us). What else would you teach your students about your career, company, product, service, industry? How? Explain. What would you not teach your students about it, and why not? What other real life subjects and problems and situations would make good career study material? What are some other things you would like to study, learn about, try . . . ? What other things have people asked you about or expressed interest in?
51. Assume you have just been promoted to the position of an official spokesperson for your company or department. You have been given the task of giving a speech, presenting the new policy or company position on your career, company, product, service, industry (may not be popular or accepted one), or defense against an accusation, attack, etc. Select and cite from several such examples from recent media / press (as precedent?). Submit a brief written statement, press release, tape or videotape of yourself speaking at the press conference (with a helper interviewing you toughly) and a Q&A session of at least ten minutes, fielding difficult and unpopular Q's on your career, company, product, service, industry. Submit another as featured speaker talking to the public or an interest group about it. Or present a standard press statement (you may have ten to thirty seconds on - camera time at an unexpected moment, as boarding or disembarking from a flight) to be kept at hand and given off the cuff on the latest development(s) in this subject. You may have to fill in at functions with previously prepared stock talks on your career, company, product, service, industry, so have at hand a short (1-3 min.) brief, a medium length one, and enough material to give a full length presentation on it as feature speaker.   Name and analyze several major prime time media and press interviewers and most popular 'talk show' hosts, with the known position of each on this subject, what to expect from each, their pet peeves and likes, latitude they are allowed, and present your preparation for an interview or appearance with one of them on your subject. Tell best way to handle each on this topic, mistakes and good examples of others on it, interview etiquette, do's and don'ts, tricks and traps, quips and humor and how to win them over, what to wear and what not, how to turn difficult questions on this to your advantage, etc. What are several current specific corporate or official positions on your career, company, product, service, industry, and how does yours compare?
52. Organize all of your researched material; answers to all questions asked; results of polls, surveys, interviews, all other required work, charts, lists, etc., so that if you wanted to write a book on this subject, your career field, to certify that you truly are an expert on it, you could do so quickly.
53. Now write a magazine article of at least 8 to 10 pages of material on this subject, or some major aspect of it, and bind and have it ready to be sent out to professional publications in your field the moment you achieve a position requiring such work. This material MUST be of high enough quality to be able to be published. It will be seen by a wide variety of people and by many who might employ you in your future. This individual piece of work must not only be able to stand alone, but be of the same style and quality to match the other work in your output, since you don't want your work to look like forty different other people did it and not you. Even if you can get others to help you more than they should, you must manage this aspect of it so that it appears to be seamless, and looks as if you did the whole thing yourself. Your work must look BETTER than that which could conceivably be put out by any college student -- it must demonstrate your literacy, ability to find and apply information, and, above all, it must look professional! If you cannot manage this yet, at this stage in your career, you should take courses and get help until you can.
54. Before filing (or publishing) this work, take all the necessary time to log your own and Study Team time and activities and the people you have met during work on it, actual names of such persons and places, etc. Your work is not complete without this step. Note: you must acknowledge the work and contributions of EVERY Study Team member involved, and add to your report to us what he or she did or contributed, and give credit for it (research, writing, a style rewrite, content rewrite, interviewing, polling, etc.) as in movie / TV credit rolls, publication masthead, other appropriate format. You must also note for your own future reference what was the easiest and hardest part of the work, to know what to concentrate on in future work to both sharpen your best abilities, and to bring your worst up to par.
55. Update your personal people file, and enter and review all of the people you have met/used during this work, noting where and how you met new ones, name and age and sex and other general characteristics, your first general impression of each as to whether this person can be of use or value to you in your future by virtue of field of work, position in it, potential source of other contacts, and whatever else possible. Is this a phoney, BSer, time waster, dedicated, innocent, user or usee or independent, or what? What do others think or say about him or her? Who did you meet through, and what is that person's opinion of this person, purpose of introduction, etc.? Is this person one to emulate in some way, or eschew? What do you think are his primary and secondary motivation 'handles': love, sex, appreciation, recognition, security, money, wealth, pride, power, or what else would you 'use' over this person to influence or control him, make him do or not do something? Would you want this person to work for you someday? Why? Why not? Doing what? Can he make others do more or better work, directly, as a team leader, role model, example, or what? What is his social quotient? IQ? BQ? Design a form with all of these things on it, and any more that are important, such as personality type, communication style, etc., for noting all of these things about every person you meet.
56. Update your contact file: whom you met through whom; how and why and for what, etc.? Have you learned anything new about anyone? Useful or something to beware of? General info? Spouses name? School? Former job? Health, ailments, attitude change, prospects, etc.? What is this person's attitude toward you? His superiors? Others? (Write all these down, now, because when you need them, 10-20 years from now, you won't remember vital details.) Who do you know who might need someone else in your people file? Who should you introduce (or not!) to whom? Who can do favors for someone else which will later reflect back on you in a favorable light? Having many friends - and using them - is one of the great secrets of success. True or False?   What can you do to help, influence, obligate others?
57. If you obtain, through learning anything during this work, any personal power or knowledge which might personally benefit you, give you any advantage over others, give you the ability to hurt and harm others as well as lead and help them, learn things which common people cannot handle and which they probably should not know, how do you plan to protect yourself from misinterpretation, misuse and backfire to injure you, any misuses to which this knowledge may be put, by yourself or others, or for any hurt or harm caused to any third party during such use, and the envy, jealousy, and anger of others? Secrecy? What else?
For more information about this research list and methodology, read COP.

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