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more likely to economically benefit from them with employers (this foreshadows the
link between personal differentiators and personal economic logic).
Personal Vehicles
The personal vehicles facet of your strategy answers questions such as:

• What do I need to accomplish on my own?
• What do I want to accomplish on my own?
• What do I need to accomplish with the help of others?
• Who are they?
We often think that our careers and quality of life are up to us—will be based
on our choices and actions alone. If that is your belief (i.e., you are a rugged
individualist), then your personal growth and development strategy seems to be
highly dependent on what you do but not on the contributions of others.
It is true that we have to develop our own knowledge and capabilities to move
forward. However, in reality, we also typically get most things done through and with
others. You have friends and family outside of work and colleagues, employees, and
bosses at work.
The vehicles component of your personal strategy diamond should spell out
how your growth and development is a function of what you do (when we talk about
organizations, we refer to this as organic growth), and what you depend on others to
do. The better you understand your dependence on others, the better you will likely
be able to manage those relationships.
Personal Staging and Pacing
You can think of personal staging and pacing as the implications of your
strategy for your own Outlook calendar. Personal staging and pacing answers
questions like:
• What sequence of events does my strategy require?
• What are the financial requirements and consequences of each event?
• What is my deadline for the first event?
• Is the deadline flexible? Can I manage the pacing of the achievement of
each event?
• How will timing affect achievement of my personal growth and
development strategy?
• Do some events provide an opportunity to reconsider or adjust my
strategy?
For instance, if you want to be a manager of a retail store it is likely you might
need a related college degree and experience. Your personal staging and pacing
would answer questions about how you would achieve these, the financial
implications of each, as well as their timing.
Personal Economic Logic
Finally, your personal growth and development strategy will likely have an
economic logic. Personal economic logic answers questions such as:
• How does achievement of my strategy help me pay the bills?
• What dimensions of my strategy, like arenas or differentiators, is the
economic logic of my strategy most dependent on?
• How sustainable is the economic logic of my strategy?

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