Article: True professionals never stop learning.

Responsibility for personal development rests with the individual, not with a company. A company's role is to provide the environment and encourage, support, and reward professional growth.

A few years ago, I found this definition of a professional (author unknown):

1. Professionals are so familiar with their chosen specialty that they know which of its rules can be broken when, and with what results.

2. Professionals know the strengths and limitations of their specialty and respect both.

3. Professionals set high standards which others in the field use as a measure of their own success. They don't need anyone on their backs about the quality of their work, because the ...

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