What unfair advantage you could have to be rich

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There is actually none.  You create your own advantage:

There are 3 things:

1.  Model   - find a new environment to learn what you have not learned before.  The similar environment can not give you that opportunity.  

2.   Mimic similar experience.    Get experience.    Pick up the phone.    Make the call.  

3.   Master.   Excel in what you are good at.  Just a little bit better.  Multiply yourself




It is great that I had the same initial experience.    Being a pharma rep.   

Training proteges can be daunting

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There are two proteges who have worked with me for the past two decades.  I have negotiated for them two major projects that amount to  10 numbers.  Probably  much much more than what I have worked for in the last 40 years.

However this post noticed certain weaknesses thast need correction:

     1  Need follow up;   need self direction and initiative

     2.  Always looking up to the mentor or me.   Be the authority or the mentor

     3   Entertaining self doubts or discouragement

     4.  Being fixated by small things /problems that drain their energy

     5.   Limited options and lack of creativity and innovation

     6.  Lack of clarity of lifes purpose

     7.  Need to be audacious and brave

I wonder how these can be developed.  otherwise they cant move forward.  They must develop these to move forward

Recruiting fresh graduates or those with experience

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Hiring practices - Forbes

Early on in my job career, my job was a recruitment and training asst at major commercial bank.  This post also trained with PMAP   One such interesting question during those years was to either hire a newbie (a fresh graduate) or an experienced staff with years of experience.   Higher pay but minimal training.

In my present experience, it is better to hire a newbie.    They obey are trainable and their horns have not emerged.  But those with just 5 years of experience are difficult to persuade or train.    There is a lot of drama.   Those young are ambitious and are not shackled by bad experience nor feeling of entitlement.  I am seeing this with a trainee about 40 years old and we can not even train her correctly for making PO doing AP process and using computer printer to print checks

She has overrated herself and another one asserts seniority and resists effort to correct her and follow right procedure

Would invidividuals who got very rich because of their connections with the very rich and or illegal activities

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1.  A realtor/developer who is a protege of a former Country's Chief Officer who suddenly had huge mega projects after her term of office

2.  A whiz kid whose talent is supposed to be monetizing an agri company but turned out to be well connnected to a MM city chief officer involved in his Batangas real property and later in a subway project;

3.  A local exec who would have gathered a large tract of land by backfilling large portions of the Laguna Lake.  The LLDA law says the Lake cant be reclaimed

4.  One of the Philippine wealthiest but who conned stockholder with property valuation, buying land along the path of highways (while others do not know)   and lately being involved in flood control projects

Must they be respected.  I did so for a while.