To be successful:
1. xxx to complain;
2. xxx to blame game
3. /// to staying calm
4. ///humble
5. ///listen
6. /// be kind respectful
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Over estimating the capabilities of understudy/protege
Be better than before, than yesterday...
This post did two people decision blunders... I overestimated. While overestimating promotes positive vibes and promote growth, such reality when they bite can halt growth and result in disaster.
1. One concerned a top position to head a business unit. He lacked leadership and was unable to act on other concerns like negotiation, finance, documentation and on time management. He did not act fast and was unable to ascertain the urgent and important
2. One was candidate for financial controller. She was lazy did not act fast, was not reliable and was unable to understand the chores of a financial controller although she represented herself to be one.
One has to ask difficult question from the candidate and ascertain in the interview whether she /he understands you and the task at hand...
Always bring something for social gathering, especially for a business meeting - MEDAL(a)
Be better than before, than yesterday...
This post noted elsewhere that when invited to a social gathering, especially where you want to establish business ties, it pays to bring a gift, or something to share for that occasion: wine, fresh fruits, pancit, fried chicken in a barrel. Its a no no to just come with bare hands and feet.
I remember we had a midwife agent before and she always brought something for the kids whenever she visited the house - candies, biscuits what not.
Its taught in business school. This establishes bond, a connection which the other party may not forget. It gives you an image of leadership, generosity, and high stature
The ungrateful ones; deleting my achievements
Be better than before, than yesterday...
They say that when you do not have money you have problem with scarcity. If you have plenty even more problems...
One of the reasons whey I aspired to be an entrepreneur was to lift our family out of poverty... specifically so as not to let my brods and sis suffer poverty as I did while growing up. My father was a laborer, My mother was a washer woman and jacks of all trade.
However, as the family accumulated wealth (through my efforts) the tides turned. After I distributed the wealth among the siblings after all my parents died, the 4 other sibilings conspired to remove me from th organization. Over the last 3 decades, I was invited to join board meetings, and worse, they removed me from GIS and lately they have been changing corps reorganizing maybe to remove my 20% share surreptitiously....
Yesterday, they reopned the mall which this post started. Was not invited. Erasing my achievements from history. This is historical revisionism at its best... Talk about gratitude. God bless them all. More power to them....
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