Donate here to the JAGF. Please see your tax advisor to determine tax implications of your donation.

E-mail us at breakout@ai-ltd.net or call us at 773-230-8817 with questions and comments.


Monday, December 27, 2021

Peter Willert's Portfolio Career Employment Profile

For those of you wondering what Portfolio Career Employment might look like, here is my present expression of this truly rewarding journey into the world of maximizing multiple income streams through carefully selected employment channels.  



 
Wellness Practitioner

Specializing in and advocating for ...

Physiologic, Socio-Emotional, Occupational and Financial Wellness 
                                   
Lecturer - Department of Health Sciences.

North Park University, Chicago, IL  
                 
Interscholastic Sports Official, Events Advisor & Assigner of Officials

Basketball (NAIA/Div III/JUCO/IHSA) and Volleyball (IHSA)  

Founder and President of the John Anthony George Foundation, 501c3                  
      
Summer Varsity Basketball Shootouts

Customized Golf Events

Sports 'Fun(d)' Raisers

Retirement Account Estimator and Tracker (RAET)

'Just Turn the Key' Consulting (concept and event architecture services)

Lifetime Wellness Empowerment Seminars

JAGF Vehicle Donation Program 

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Retirement Account Estimating and Tracking Made Simple




AUWF proudly introduces, 
on behalf of the John Anthony George Foundation ...

Retirement Account Estimating and Tracking Made Simple

    
Confused by all those tables and pie charts provided by your retirement account website? Looking for a simple computer-based tool to estimate and track ALL of your accounts in what-if, at-a-glance, all-inclusive fashion?  

Build your confidence in following your financial retirement potential in a way never before offered. Here, we provide you with an Excel program requiring the very simplest of keyboarding skills. Add this to your strategies both you and your financial advisor can use to project and follow your retirement goals. 

Call or text us today at 773-230-8817 and we'll arrange for your very own one-on-one or group, in-person or screen-sharing, demonstration of this uniquely powerful yet easy-to-use Excel tool.
   
Serving these retirement account types ...

Account Type 1 RAET: Dividends and Gains with unrestricted and tax free burden redemption at retirement and defined contribution limits.
For example ...   Roth IRA  -  Mutual Fund Accounts  

Account Type 2 RAET: Dividends and Gains with required minimum and tax burden redemption at retirement and defined contribution limits.
For example ...   Standard IRA  -  Simple IRA  -  SEP IRA  -  401k  - Simple 401k -  Solo 401k  -  403b   

Account Type 3 RAET: Interest-bearing accounts.
For example ...   Health Savings Account (HSA)  -  Savings Accounts  -  CDs




PLEASE DO NOT EDIT OR POPULATE THE RAET DOCUMENT ON THIS SITE. KINDLY FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW TO DOWNLOAD TO YOUR LAPTOP OR NOTEBOOK! 

PC download: (Click on the RAET download link above ... Once opened, click on 'File' ... choose 'Download' ... click on 'Microsoft Excel' ... click on 'Open file' in Downloads pop-up ... once the RAET is opened, click on 'Enable Editing', if prompted ... click on 'File' ... click 'Save As' ... re-name your file ... save to your Desktop.)  (Follow Mac download procedures as required)

Note: Be sure to always make a backup copy of your RAET after each edit on your own device. 


*  "Has been an invaluable addition to my retirement planning. Keeps me engaged almost weekly.
Sometimes daily. Simple to use. Love it."  YR. 42. La Grange Park, IL
*  "Had been struggling to understand just where my financial retirement future was heading.
I couldn't keep up with all of the charts and and tables. My RAET has changed all that. 
One stop 'shopping' to all of my tracking needs."  TH. 56. Rockford, IL
*  "Can't think of a better way to track my retirement future than through my RAET. 
Really like the Retirement Platforms $ Goals page. Yes, at-a-glance, all-at-once estimating
and tracking works for me. RW. 61. Sacramento, CA
*  "Simple. simple, simple. What I like most is the ability to create different scenarios and
what they might mean to my financial future. First time I've felt in control of my retirement prospects."  
FG. 47. Des Moines, IA
*  "The RAET design made me more confident in understanding my retirement future.
In fact, my financial planner has incorporated it in my retirement planning strategies.
Seems like all those numbers now make sense in a way I can understand."  NM. 55. Chicago, IL
Happy estimating and tracking your way to a healthy financial retirement future! 

'In Good Faith' Agreement: The user of a provided RAET agrees to honor its use as theirs alone and NOT file share with others unless otherwise authorized.

Please see your tax advisor to determine to what extent, if any, your support of this initiative can convey any tax benefits or responsibilities to you.

Sunday, June 6, 2021

Rent-a-Putt



              Are you ... 

... a school golf team or golf instructor in need of some digital assistance in tuning up your team's or client's putting skills?  

... a corporate sales team in need of playful competition and team-building to enhance your meeting?

... a social club, church group, community organization, et al, looking for a creative and lively fundraising strategy?

... a special events coordinator in need of an exciting inter-active activity sure to impress and engage the masses?

... planning birthday, anniversary, graduation or reunion celebrations and would like a fun and interactive way to enjoy onsite mini-golf all ages and abilities can play

We here at the JAGF will lease, on a per hourly basis, everything you'll need to make this a reality. We provide the set up, instruction and take down of this astoundingly simple to use, sensational activity you and your friends, family, associates or customers are sure to enjoy.

Includes assorted audio-supported putting challenges, 9 hole putting competitions, practice scenarios and sensational feedback modalities.

Leasing time to use Rent-a-Putt makes even more sense when seeking to avoid the hazards of owning richly enhanced digital marvels like this. No complicated and costly storage and repair charges to worry about.

You provide a temperature and weather controlled, well-lit location and we'll provide the rest. 

Call or text us today at 773-230-8817 


EQUIPMENT RENTAL SPECIFICATIONS

RENTERS OF RENT-A-PUTT AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING RENTAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. The RENTER shall keep and maintain the rented equipment during the terms of the rental at her/his OWN cost and expense, and shall keep the equipment in a good state of repair, normal wear and tear excepted. 2. The RENTER shall pay the OWNER full compensation for replacement for replacement and/or repair of any equipment which is not returned because it is lost or stolen or any equipment which is damaged and in need of repair to put it into the same condition it was in at the time of rental, normal wear and tear excepted. The OWNER’s invoice for replacement or repair is conclusive as to the amount RENTER shall pay under this paragraph for repair or replacement. 3. The RENTER shall not remove the equipment from the address of the RENTER or the location agreed to without prior written approval of the OWNER. The RENTER shall inform the OWNER upon demand of the exact location of the equipment while it is in the RENTER'S possession. 4. The RENTER shall allow OWNER to enter RENTER’s premises where the rented equipment is stored or used at all reasonable times to locate and inspect the state and condition of the rented equipment. If the RENTER is in default of any of the terms and conditions of this agreement, the OWNER, and his agents, at the RENTER’s risk, cost and expense, may at any time enter the RENTER’s premises where the rented equipment is stored or used at all time and recover the rented equipment. 5. The RENTER shall not pledge or encumber the rented equipment in any way. The OWNER may terminate this agreement immediately upon the failure of RENTER to make rental payments when due, or upon RENTER’s filling for protection from creditors in any court of competent jurisdiction. 6. The OWNER makes no warranty of any kind regarding the rented equipment, except that OWNER shall replace the equipment with identical or similar equipment if the equipment fails to operate in accordance with the manufacturer’s specifications and operation instructions. Such replacement shall be made as soon as practicable after RENTER returns the non-conforming equipment. 7. RENTER indemnifies and holds OWNER harmless for all injuries or damage of any kind for repossession and for all consequential and special damages for any claimed breach of warranty. 8. The RENTER shall pay all reasonable attorney and other fees, the expenses and costs incurred by OWNER in protection its rights under this rental agreement and for any action taken by the OWNER to collect any amounts due the OWNER under this rental agreement. 9. These terms are accepted by the RENTER via this web posting. 10. Any time required to provide guidance and instruction by the  Rent-a-Putt representative is charged to the rental time purchased.

Please see your tax advisor to determine to what extent, if any, leasing Rent-a-Putt can convey any tax benefits or responsibilities to you.

Saturday, February 13, 2021

Lifetime Wellness Empowerment Seminars


I've had the good fortune to provide a number of wellness seminars over the past several years.  As such, my presentations feature exploration of lifetime wellness topics like achieving purposeful employment and career satisfaction, financial security now and in  your retirement years, how leadership today is defined and honored facilitating personal well-being and professional growth, physiological health assessments, and review of strategies and activities designed to realize unique and creative ways to discover the promise of entrepreneurship in an environment, like today, which embraces innovation, courage and vision.

Here's a brief review of my empowerment seminars ...

1 Your Life’s Work Vision

Provides the individual with a robust industry domain self-inventory and analysis suggesting potential employment markets suited to the individual’s career strengths, passions and search for purposeful employment.

Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Donation negotiable.

2 The New Rainmakers

Explores today’s need for creativity to address the ever-changing environment of employment realities. Features an in depth review of ‘Portfolio Careerism’: diversifying employment opportunities serving to ‘bullet-proof’ one’s career in today’s employment market.

Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Donation negotiable.

3 Pillars of Living Well

Let’s take a look at the many faces of what living well in today’s world demands. At the heart and soul of a healthy and fulfilling life is the need to know and apply some of the key principles or ‘pillars’ known to ensure our overall wellness.

Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Donation negotiable.

(Click here) Pillars of Living Well Menu of Topics

4 Assessing Lifetime Wellness

When it comes to living well we are best served to explore how our current state of emotional, social, occupational, financial and physical health serve our overall wellness with the assistance of carefully constructed retirement and health assessment tools and activities.

Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Donation negotiable.

(Click here) Assessing Lifetime Wellness Menu of Topics

5 Financial Wellness Checkup

Some Questions to consider when evaluating your preparedness today and in the future: Do I have a healthy savings strategy? Am I financially on the right track to retire comfortably? What is my New Worth? Why is that important to know? How can budgeting be made simple and serviceable? And many more.

Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Both Comprehensive and Simplified editions are available. Donation negotiable.

6 Retirement Account Estimator and Tracker (RAET) - See separate post on this website for greater detail.

Confused by all those tables and pie charts provided by your retirement account website? Looking for a simple computer-based tool to estimate and track ALL of your accounts in what-if, at-a-glance, all-inclusive fashion?  

Build your confidence in following your financial retirement potential in a way never before offered. Here, we provide you with an Excel program requiring the very simplest of keyboarding skills. Add this to your strategies both you and your financial advisor can use to project and follow your retirement goals. 

Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Donation negotiable.

Are you a school, business, chamber of commerce, career center, employment agency, alumni association, church group, and the like, whose staff, clients or membership might benefit from these seminars? I can be reached as below. I'm happy to discuss how we might collaborate.


Here are a few links to articles devoted to discussing the merits of ROI of Wellness initiatives in the workplace.




Zoom Seminar Dates Available: All times are CST. 

SUN, ?/?, 9 AM   
SUN, ?/?, 7 PM   
TUES, ?/?, 9 AM   
THURS, ?/?, 1 PM

Past Presentations and Seminars
St Hubert’s Career Ministry, Hoffman Estates, IL.  The New Rainmakers.    
St Hubert’s Career Ministry, Arlington Hts., IL.  Assessing Lifetime Wellness.
Executive Network Group of Greater Chicago.  The New Rainmakers.
Career Transition Center of Chicago.  Your Life's Work Vision. 
Harold Washington College. Pillars of Living Well.  
WorkNet Dupage Career Center.  The New Rainmakers. 
Barrington Career Center, Barrington IL.  Your Life's Work Vision. 
DePaul University, Keynote Address, February 2010 Career Week.  Pillars of Living Well. 
Career Transition Center of Chicago.  Assessing Lifetime Wellness. 

Contact Information

Peter Willert, MS, CWP. National Wellness Institute (NWI) - Certified Wellness Practitioner

Phone (textable): 773-230-8817

Email: pwillertcwp@gmail.com

Website: www.anuncommonwayforward.blogspot.com

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Sunday, January 24, 2021

Sports Friendship 'Fun" Raisers


Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.  Deepak Chopra

Proposal and Rational.   

The task of creating and nurturing sustaining fundraising activities is a vital part of many organizations and institutions. Here’s an opportunity to consider how thrilling sports competition can be engineered to embrace creativity and innovation, providing a new and exciting way in which time-honored sports can be enjoyed by co-workers, alumni, parishioners, students and their family members, club membership, et al, for the worthy purpose of meeting your development goals and objectives. 

Or perhaps your organization might very simply want to explore its promise 'just for the fun of it'. 

In a non-traditional format of competition, Sports Friendship ‘Fun” Raisers - provided to you in 'turnkey' fashion, ready for immediate use, with complete, easy to follow instructions - is a transformative way to add to a sport that respects individual accomplishment, honors team play and is widely accepted as a cultural monolith among sports enthusiasts, young and old. 

This proposal is submitted and supported by the John Anthony George Foundation (JAGF), 501c3.  Its founder, principal and its administrators propose this initiative in fulfillment of its charter to support deserving and/or underfunded youth education and sports activities and VFW relief initiatives, particularly in the city of Chicago. 

Objectives and Benefits.

·       To gather participants within their respective venues of play to once again benefit from the physical, emotional and social value acknowledged sports competition can provide.

·       To construct an activity that embraces the thrill of competition for its participants.

·       To engage enrolled recreation centers, park districts, schools, and the like, in one or more of the suggested and supported formats of competition, fostering inter-institutional coordination and collaboration. 

·       To honor the importance leisure and sports activity provides, especially as it relates to its role in ensuring healthy socialization among friends, students and associates and in fulfilling the expectations we have of these activities in service of our overall well-being.

·       Careful social-distancing and infection-avoidant behaviors and practices can be easily deployed throughout the course of competition where and when it is determined to be prudent or necessary.

    Competition Architecture

*Compete in one or more of the following levels and types of play:

1.  Elementary School; Just-for-the-fun-of-it; either gender, both and/or co-ed.  (No officials)

2.  Elementary School; Girls’ Competitive.

3.  Elementary School; Boys’ Competitive. 

4.  Post-Elementary School; up to & including age 21; Just-for-the-fun-of-it; either gender, both and/or co-ed. (No officials)

5.  Post-Elementary School; up to & including age 21; Girls’ Competitive.

6.  Post-Elementary School; up to & including age 21; Boys’ Competitive.

7.  Over 21; Just-for-the-fun-of-it; either gender, both and/or co-ed.   (No officials)

8.  Over 21; Women’s Competitive

9.  Over 21; Men’s Competitive

10.  Over 21; Competitive; either gender, both and/or co-ed.


Pickleball Friendship 'Fun' Raiser       

*    The format of competitive play will be determined by the number of teams entered. A maximum of 8 and a minimum of 4 teams is required for each level and type of play.

*       Typical competitive formats used: Single Pool Round Robin followed by a playoff round … Two Pool Round Robin followed by a playoff round … Two Pool Crossovers … Two Pool Crossovers followed by a playoff round, among others.

*       1 day, minimum 4 match guarantee. 2 out of 3 games wins match. Rally scoring. First to 15 wins. No deuce. 


Shot Clock Shootout Friendship 'Fun' Raiser       

   

5 Competitive Shooting Skills Challenges Overview.                                                                             

1. Two-player tandem, shot alternating, 3 point or spot designated shooting challenge. Each team competes twice. Better score is recorded.  

2. Three player tandem, shot assigned, FT and 3 point or spot designated shooting challenge. Each team competes twice. Better time is recorded. 

3. Three player tandem, shot assigned, 3 point or spot designated shooting challenge. Each team competes twice. Better time is recorded. 

4. Three player tandem, FT (Swish), shooting challenge. Each team competes twice. Better score is recorded. 

5. Traditional, single shooter, shot assigned, 3 point or spot designated shooting challenge. Each team chooses 3 players to compete. Cumulative shots earned among 3 competitors is recorded.  


Hoop Dream Friendship 'Fun' Raiser      

   

·       The format of competitive play will be determined by the number of teams entered. A maximum of 8 and a minimum of 4 teams is required for each level and type of play.

·       Typical competitive formats used: Single Pool Round Robin followed by a playoff round … Two Pool Round Robin followed by a playoff round … Two Pool Crossovers … Two Pool Crossovers followed by a playoff round, among others.

·       1 day, minimum 4 game guarantee. 2 - 16 minute running halves. Stop clock last 2 minutes of the game. OT: 1st - 1 min; 2nd - First to score. All bonus FTs are 1 and 1 at 7th foul each half. 5th foul individual player elimination.


Bump, Set and Spike Friendship 'Fun' Raiser

       

·       The format of competitive play will be determined by the number of teams entered. A maximum of 8 and a minimum of 4 teams is required for each level and type of play.

·       Typical competitive formats used: Single Pool Round Robin followed by a playoff round … Two Pool Round Robin followed by a playoff round … Two Pool Crossovers … Two Pool Crossovers followed by a playoff round, among others.

·       1 day, minimum 4 match guarantee. 2 out of 3 games wins match. Rally scoring. First to 21 wins. No deuce. 


Rent-a-Putt Friendship 'Fun' Raiser (see separate post on this website)

       

Organizational Scope.

Competition can be organized at the state, region, school conference and individual institution/entity level.

Expected Fiduciary Obligations of Participants.

While the JAGF cannot claim Shot Clock Shootouts as a concept or idea as a matter of intellectual property, those institutions, agencies, et al, choosing to deploy it in its given structure and detail, agree, in good faith and as reflects an ethical expression of compensatory use, to either (1) make a respectable ‘usual and customary’ donation to the JAGF a. one time only reflecting the value of its unlimited use over time or b. for each discreet event conducted or (2) offer ‘right of first refusal’ to the JAGF for the responsibility of assigning officials for any and all such events, now and in the future. All copyright restrictions will be lifted once elected fiduciary obligations are met by participating agencies, institutions, and the like.

Contact Info.

Peter Willert

Founder and Principal, John Anthony George Foundation, 501c3

Phone:  773-230-8817

Email:    1. breakout@ai-ltd.net     2. pwillertcwp@gmail.com

Sunday, December 15, 2019

JAGF Vehicle Donation Program


Donate your vehicle today!

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Do you or anyone you know have a clunker of a car, boat, motorcycle, and the like, destined for the trash heap?  

The John Anthony George Foundation is qualified as a fully recognized 501c3 to receive such donations in support of our stated mission of serving carefully selected deserving Chicago youth education and sports opportunities and needs. Thanks for considering our appeal. 

We welcome any Qs or thoughts you may have and can best be reached at 773-230-8817.

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Portfolio Careerism: More than just a gig!


         
 
Buildings that stand dozens of stories high do so because their brick and mortar reflect principles of architecture successfully put to the test. Great sports and business teams flourish with unmatched cohesion not only because their members are understandably talented, but largely because sound principles of play and execution govern their behaviors and efforts as a whole. Principles are the underpinnings of thoughtful, sustaining and respected commercial creations. So it is with a sound, productive Portfolio Careerism.

Consider the following eight themes and applications as the principle reasons why  Portfolio Career Employment (PCE) ultimately distinguishes itself among better known employment and entrepreneurial models. These core principles will be woven throughout the effort you put forth to both design and implement your PCE. Others may widely call this approach to creative employment 'gig' work. PCE is that and much more.

Let’s take a look at each to appreciate how they contribute to the innovative signature of the PCE model. 

Contractorship-Centric.  Independent contractorship is widely and successfully employed across all industries of commerce. It can be either simple or complex in structure. This contract work is grounded in remuneration for pre-specified results over a pre-specified period of  time (the term of the agreement). PCE in its execution is, fundamentally, independent contractorship. You will recall from earlier stated remarks, however, that independent contractorship is not contract employment.

Vocation-Based.  For most of the employed today, their choice for work is likely determined by their level of educational preparation, proximity to home and the supply side of the job market. Career counselors widely report that workers at any level of job satisfaction, from the disenfranchised to the highly contented, routinely express the desire to ultimately find work of their “calling”. Expect to devote substantial thought to declaring and building your PCE with vocation as a significant driver when naming your core Platforms and constructing your Platform Proficiencies.

Effort Hours.   Careful attention to ‘effort hours’ characterizes the importance of time over which we expend effort in our work. Pay per hour jobs are the measure of just that. As a PCE advocate, you will either be paid per hour or a single fee with term specifications. Again, the appeal of independent contractorship is to manage effort over time against revenue earned. For example, will you choose to accept a project promising to pay $6,000 (projected effort hours – 170) or one likely to yield $2,000 (projected effort hours – 21)? In automotive speak, your wise and efficient management of effort hours is the “governor” on your employment engine.  Ultimately, be prepared to project earnings based in part on effort hours, protective of time as a co-equal to revenue. 

Stewardship.  This certainly strikes a chord with many today seeking career satisfaction.  Made popular among various religious movements and environmental causes, stewardship widely refers to taking care of something that belongs to our at large, global family. Our PCE approach customizes stewardship to include any important or vital cause, notion or principle you deem worthy of protecting and nurturing in a commercial way.  As you go about forming proficiencies for your Stewardship Platform, keep in mind how indelible an impression this is likely to impart on others who come to appreciate your devotion to this principle. Even more, expect your declared stewardship to clearly sustain the emotional and soulful integrity of your eemployment.

Professorship.  Do you have some talent, process or idea to share that showcases an expertise? Are you willing to declare these proficiencies in way that leads and inspires? PCE Professorship does not require an advanced degree or a faculty position at a renowned university. Proudly, we all have the ability to instruct and guide. Commercially develop the gifts you have that offer solutions and strategies for all who seek their promise. This represents a unique opportunity for the type of braggadocio that will be appreciated for all its possibility to change lives and advance shared learning.      

Entrepreneurship.  Who hasn’t thought of storming to the summit of the commercial world with some impressive and creative business concept?  Imagination and uncommon vision usually precede these great efforts.  In quixotic fashion, entrepreneurs dream big and set aside trepidation in favor of what might be. The trick here is to be bold but always realistic and spot-on with goals and objectives that reflect savvy understanding of the markets in question. This is, paradoxically, not the time for unbridled whimsy. As you go about forming your PCE the matter of smart business innovation and how you interpret it through the Entrepreneurship Platform Proficiencies you create will ultimately define your adroitness for the nearly impossible and uniquely extraordinary. New thinking coupled with fresh approaches is, after all, what PCE excellence should ultimately exude.

Your Life’s Work Vision.  Setting goals, forging strategies and planning objectives is to promote the “high fly-over” forward-thinking that is both found and expected in any successful commercial venture. The PCE devotee embraces this type of thinking as a matter fundamental to the breath and scope of enterprise design and implementation.

Set fear aside for the moment and imagine without hindrance what your commercial and vocational dream might ultimately look like. Vision has no restraints; it calls us to the outer limits of possibility. Your time for paying homage to limitation and self-doubt is ended here.     

To conclude the design side (indeed, the In Principle portion) of the your PCE, your portfolio of Core Platforms and their Platform Proficiencies will descriptively name and itemize your aptitudes, competencies, products, services and programs. In all its élan, your portfolio will become Your Life’s Work Vision “dressed to the nines.” Your vision and its carefully demonstrated tally of  proficiencies serve not only the commercially dedicated independent contractor but also those who may otherwise be content for now to continue on with traditional at-will employment. Only now, the path to career completeness will be buffed with a vocational polish sure to inspire.  

Portfolio Careerism 

1. Contractorship-Centric: An entity of one exclusively designs and predominantly provides products and services. Routinely outsources to other contractors when demand exceeds ability to supply. Single source for control and degree of risk for performance or product quality, revenue flow, effort and expenses. State-of-the-art self employment.

2.
Vocation-Based: Largely blends a model of service and product delivery defined by career experience (historical) with a greater need to express talents and personal goals when pursuing a desire for commercial self-fulfillment and -characterization.

3.
Network-driven: Chiefly defines the market through personal understanding and access to demand sources through a carefully executed flow of networking around, through and with commercial “firewalls”, “gatekeepers” and “friendlies”, respectively.   Actively engages business development contractors and contracts where appropriate.

4.
Customized-serviceable: Supply diverse, demand accommodating.


Conventional Employment


1. Customarily employs talent-diverse, skill specific individuals as collective entity to provide products and/or services. Rarely if ever needs to outsource to contractors. Control and degree of risk for performance quality, revenue flow, effort and expenses dependent almost exclusively upon scope of staff size, abilities and commitment.

2. Largely or almost exclusively deploys employee abilities against a purely commercial needs drive to the “bottom line”. Rarely if ever defines corporate satisfaction as measured personal effort hours saved or individual goals achieved.


3. Carefully assesses a market’s potential through achievable penetration and potential revenue yield deploying conventional mass marketing tactics and sales “demand-creation” strategies .

4. Conventional practice attracting a large, one-product, one-service-fits-all customer base.


We here at the John Anthony George Foundation provide workshops live and virtually, via Zoom, exploring Portfolio Careerism, as presented in my book, An Uncommon Way Forward (Infinity Publishing, 2009), in all its possibilities. Call or text us now at 773-230-8817 to find a time to chat about how you, or those you work with or serve, can discover these wondrous truths in search of  an exciting alternative approach to career fulfillment. 

Carpe diem, friends!

Peter Willert