Job Crafting

Top 3 questions for different schools of strategy is given below:
Classic Strategic Planning school :-
- What is your goal?
- What is your plan to reach the goal?
- Is your strategy flexible enough to act upon the emerging opportunities/risks?
The learning organization :-
- Is everyone in the team working together?
- Are there right people at right roles?
- How do we replicate successes?
Competitive Strategy :-
- Have we done analysis of the economic situation of the industry?
- Have we analyzed the position of competitors in the entire value chain?
- How do we increase our Sustainable Competitive Advantage?
In simple words,
- Identify what works well
- Identify what further value additions can be done easily
- Leverage on what works well
In the article 'Managing Yourself: Turn the job you have into the job you want' which was published in Harvard Business Review June 2010 Page 114 Amy Wrzesniewski suggests to use Job Crafting.

Job crafting can be a powerful tool for reengineering and reimaging your work life. It involves redefining your job to incorporate your motives, strengths and passions.This exercise prompts you to visualize the job, map its elements, and reorganize them to better suit you.In this way, you an put personal touches on how you see and do your job, and you'll gain a greater sense of control at work - which is especially critical at a time when you're probably working longer and harder and expecting to retire later.

This exercise involves assessing and then altering one or mor of the following core aspects of work: Tasks, relationships, perceptions.To win support for your job crafting, focus on creating value for others, building trust, and identifying people who will accommodate you.

- Murali