Game in the Brain

The OJT program is how I’m going to develop my other skills. Particularly testing my skills in a way that I figure out the Problem: How can Students be better be prepared for the Job market and how Open Source will play into their Future. 

 it’s possible to get up to 30 OJTs (students), but I am only able to probably handle around 10. 

This is light management, we discuss tasks and objectives and they report back what they accomplished. this is not hand-holding which I don’t have time for.

I can do 1 on 1 coaching like probably 2-3 a week which will cut my writing Endurance since these are exhausting as I document as I go and qualify and quantify the objectives. 

BUT damn if I can hire IT teaching assistants from India that would be cool, particularly facilitating all the skill I need them to develop. Then the question is how do I calibrate and work with such freelancers to help? I think I can hire Ambibuzz to make a Training regime for Open Source for the OJTs. 

 I’m about to get 10 IT Interns (OJTs). I’m wondering if I can get ambibuz  to help me create a Lesson Plan to train these OJTs in open source. Particularly a List of Skills and Projects they need to accomplish in their 250-500 manhours of studies. I can justify these to HR for the company as these skills are essential not just for the OJTs but for also for the IT. 

Particularly Setting up the ERPNext server in GCP (since I can set the budget so the OJTs have resources to deploy such) for Deployment, troubleshooting and customization – where they try create the settings like ours.

But I think I can do the Train the Trainer… if the OJT can be so diligent as to be able to take on the role of a Teaching assistant by being a Team Leader to monitor and report the performance of their teammates they will experience my conditions where you have to Manage people who see you as Peers and not as an authority and they have to employ a lot of Buy in and Processing so the GOALS are win-win for them. 

A student that is Diligent and empowered is a D20 roll on a 20 rolled per semester or school term. I’m not that lucky. 

What I can Try:

1. Converting OJTs to teams and working with the Team Leader to get a higher than average score in their leadership and management skills if they take on the duties and maintain it is one of the Win-Win strategies I can probably do. 
2. Create a program by which they Deploy an ERPNext server with Google Cloud Platform and Create Training material for the Other team to do the same. 
1. Evaluate the Other Teams Deployment Strategy 
3. Configure the Server like what we did but in their own Way. The problem statement is given to them and they will deploy the server. 
4. Deploy the Server to Make a Project Management Server for the OJTs using ERPNext. Figure out a way they can use the modules to measure their progress.  
5. How important is it To Master the use of Gworkspace to create Training Material, Manage Communications, and to produce 
1. OBS and making desktop recordings. 
2. Kden Live  

if my skills are up to it and My not too tired after meetings to convince the OJT of my plans. I’m rolling the die, knowing I may fail and hopefully even in failure the OJTs will learn something – I know I do. 

Open Source – Market Consolidation

I have a very low opinion of Operations. In studies regarding Management, I learned that Founders and Operations Heads are different as the operations head cuts the fat down to make the company lean and profitable once the Founder is out of the Picture. 

Acquisitions are the way most companies grow because its costly to Innovate and they’d rather Optimize a company that will be the next big thing. 

I realize that these guys are just really not innovating. They are cannibalizing, they are SHRINKING the market – what they are doing is just laying off people because they’ve stopped Innovating. The funny thing about this is that – having Processes go into Economies of scale is what OPen Source has done – basically, Open Source is now the backbone of most processes and people moved on to do higher level and more sophisticated work. 

Basically, Open Sourcing so that Everyone else gets to use a Good Tool so it can have a life of its own and a lower Cost of Ops is fueling innovation so that the INnovative area can let go of the area that its not anymore its core revenue and proceed to the more advance areas where their services are more differentiated. 

Once companies use Open Source for the BASICS, and the basics level is pretty advance up to ERPs. the savings can go into their Personnel or in Innovation. 

The thing is people are behind all this. Once there is a “Cash out” that we’ve passed a threshold, its time to quit and take the payout. And people will probably payout instead of innovating because making a highly profitable company comes at a cost of sacrificing other things and options. We don’t know what kind of Rubberband will snap back after a threshold has passed. 

For me Innovation, and getting into the part we are innovating is a moral duty to ensure that people have stable employment. Growing the next generation and giving more cost effective tools that are shareable across more people are the best. Make enough for Us but what ever we can spare we offer to the rest.