This post covers self mastery. Self mastery/improvement must come first before you can improve performance and outputs. You cant be a businessman or an entrepreneur or be rich unless you improve your self. To attempt to change the world without self improvment is insanity
I gave an understudy the title of chief, and made him incorporate for the pupose of wealth accumulation. Howver one of the core staff, a founder also found himself without shares and was complaining that he could be left out with no share in the founding of the firm, while he was doing all the hard pioneering work. He long have asked him to clarify this and said he would not fool anyone.
But when time passes by, everything said is forgotten and when everything passes, agreements in the past are forgotten and memories dim.
I was witness to a family drama where a son said a car dealership was bequeathed to him by the mama. But in the end the elder brother showed the articles of incorporation which did not show anything of that sor..
Can people be trusted to keep their word, and or that the incident all ready told me everything about the understudy?
There was a story of a village who experienced drought. Their only source of water to drink, the village well dried up. And one of the villagers William experienced the drying up while fetching water for his old mother. People were desperate and left the village for places where there could be sufficient water.
Desperate William went up to mountain to reflect. He met George. And he discussed the problem with George. Well George said there is a spring up the mountain. But William said it is so far away and up the mountains. About 20 km away. Up in the mountains But George said you are looking for a solution to the village plight.
And so William discussed the plan with his fellow villagers. No one listened no one cooperated. William was not disheartened. He surveyed the best route for a canal between the spring and his village. He drew the plan and made sure the elevation was right so that water would freely flow from the spring to the village.
All he had as a tool was an old rusty shovel of his deceased father. He started digging No one bothered him nor joined him His hands bled from peeled palm on his first day and his mother nursed his blooded hands He kept on digging. He dug and dug. Days passed. Weeks and months.
Until one day it rained heavily (good for their dried well) and destroyed portion of his digging. Thus the defects of his digging were exposed. He strengthened the walls of the portion that collapsed. Widened some portion, dug some areas deeper.
And then he continued to dig. Weeks, months, months Until one day he reached the portion of the mountain that was near the spring. But an immovable large boulder separated his canal and spring. His shovel seemed puny compared to the boulder. He struck the boulder again and again. But his effort seemed to be worthless. He struck the rock again and again and again until finally a trickle, a flow and then a deluge. And the water cascaded down to his canal....
And then the flow stopped. A portion had collapsed soil and rock blocking the flow. He had to remove the blockage. But his strength and energy seemed to have left him. He nevertheless struggled to remove the block until early morning And then the flow continued until it reached his village.
At last he solved the water problem Only then did people appreciate his effort. But he did it alone. People dont join you until the results are visible.
They are advice from Vishna. He is author of several books
What he learned and his advice
1. Tolerate pain.
E.g. Elon Musk applied at Netflix but was not invited for interview. The best way to do this was
to create his own company. But the journey from there to Spacex was just like eating glass
its painful...
2. Know why. Its the greater motivator (others say have assets and system but this is more permanent than systems or assets and easier to do)
Business is not about making money. The business of business maybe to push forward the
frontier of humanity. As with Navea Jain. His vision is to extend the life of humans, not to
get sick
Big vision gets big people, Great people come with great ideas. You do not need more money.
3. Stay in the vision zone
Its not about PHP or profit
According to Richard Branson, its all about getting people aligned with your vision, and once
clear make them do this...
He served burgers to 50 interns in his house. To get them hooked with his vision and work towards that
4. Bring an upside to the downside (from Paul McKenna) Paying more for an apartment? You can host parties that bring in investors and customer, and save on hotel
Ricihard Branson got stranded in Carribean. on the way to UK. He thought of getting a chartered
flight and invited others to join and split the bill. That gave him an idea of setting up Virgin Islands airline. So he leased an old 747 from Boeing which they initially refused. Later on they agreed. Pay the lease 30 days after. In the meantime he earned revenues from the flight...
I saw a number of jobs that are available all senior in nature for me. SVP, COO, Managing Directors. However this post dare not join for being a senior citizen (75 all ready) and I have busineses that I love that I cant leave. This post should be the one recruiting.
This post is glad that we have non stop self improvement actions
Sometimes the greatest motivation for a man is his sense of achievement, ie that he developed his gift for the good of humanity. However it was not the case for me... Although this post tried very hard to develop himself for the good of his family and the community the sense of achievement was stolen from him. The narrative that persisted when the family assets were divided that the same was an inheritance was from the parents (true because what the documents say)and this was concretized in the tombstone. However the rest of the heirs did not see (as they were still in school then) the every contract, every agreement every plan, every vision, strategy originated from this post. The father did not like business or signing agreement as he was a govt employee; the mother could not have not done this because of limited knowledge.
The father died early, the mother feted her barkada and brod and sis to casino resto, hotels, travel abroad, as anyone who would have enough money knows when he she has some money...
There is no gratitude from those who are benefitted from this largesse coming out of my thoughts and sweat. The narrative was that which I supported then was that the mother was the genius and the entrepreneur.
May the Lord bless them all
The march to progress continued even when the father died, and even when the mother died iin 2008
Some old rich say (and even late mother) say do not talk about inheritance (or give out inheritance while alive) It will be source of quarrels and even crimes.
If you announce inheritance, the family members simply wait for the principals to die, and no longer work nor study. This post committed mistakes: gave out the inheritance and announced the race for the successor..
So my family is in turmoil right now. So follow the advice:
1. Be secretive dont announce your wealth
2. Dont announce inheritance
Alot of groups make a lot of money talking about family intramurals solutions
Sciene and HR practices tell us it should be based on merit and performance. However in practice it is based on relationship. For most part I think our decisions on promotions, decisions preferences are based on human relations. Thus among govts of nation, Singapore would tend to base decisions and actions based on merits and results (Meritocracy) Govt of countrie like PHL would rely more on relationships: hire more relatives, favor relatives and friends as suppliers. In some cases they term it sipsip In a family owned organization, this system prevails Thus conflicts and quarrels arise. Sometimes it is not the corporate goal that counts but self interest, authority, turfs, mini empires. It is sometimes deragatory.
Both have theri upsides and downsides
Merit means stricter hiring standards, justice in evaluation However we are not clear and authority and power structure could be shaky.
There is dishnesty, tayo2 in relationship despite trust. Abuse comes in.
WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE AS SYSTEM: MERITOCRACY OR RELATIONSHIP
This post thought that I learned a lot of things. But watching this video made me realize that really one of the most wondrous object of inquiry is the human being - it defies being captured in abstraction or theory. Though in this case the officers were clearly defeated, they were defiant and what persisted is their pride, tradition, and identity. During the flag ceremony they gave a Hitler salute. Patton thought this to be highly disrespectful They were vanquished and in effect they being in their HQ, they were in US territory
Therefore as a means to leverage and force the issue, Patton gave them a punishment. He lined them and up gave them a choice: remove their uniforms by themselves or the MPs will do it for them. And will be exposed to the cold and elements. Being in uniform gives a person dignity
You cant just talk and presumed that being vanquished in battle means that you have vanquished the spirit of man
They also found out that getting the enemies in concentration camp did not destroy the comman structure even of those outside the camps. The Allies found out later on. And of course the US intelligence has countermeasures
Patton gave the same threat to a nurse who refused to treat a Negro officer in a hospital because they were indoctrinated that only white people are superior race and dont deserve the care of white nurse. Patton, as shocking as theatrics it could be, threatened her to remove her uniform and clean latrines in the hospital.
That is why it is important to build culture and tradition in your group:
1. Uniform
2. Id
3. Rewards, ribbons, commendation
Then it becomes matic and more difficult to remove, deculture
What did the late Gen Patton do to his colonels and officers whom he caught stealing the foods and rations for his troops and selling the same for profit?
He made sure evidences were gathered, asked JAGO to file charges against them. They were stripped of their ranks and spent time in jail.... Do we accept that in wartime, there is really a black market (for thieves?) Do we allow that taxpayers money be stolen just like that?
Will he be reincarnated and render justice to all of us Filipinos who suffered from the super THIEVES
What will you do if you catch one of your staff who is engaged in petty thievery? Or worse super thievery?
One thing I can conclude, Theory x though how much you try to be good to your people
Your competitive advantage cant be longer due from more and better talents because AI has made skills and knowledge available to everyone. A recent post that I read said that there are 3 important competitive advantage and they come from personal improvement:
1. Integrity - doing what you say, and saying what you do, are you honest, ? Can you be trusted
2. Character - are you just like one of hte popular guyrs who has 5 ladies with so many panganay
na ank and who tips 6 numbers for a one night stand, are you like a goon.
Do you have vices, are you hard working, do you wake up early are you determined
and persistent
3. Insight and/or vision - the ability to see things in scenarios or events where all see nothing. The
ability to integrate all separate elements into one workable deal
This post notices that in many deals, they still look for me maybe because of the 3.
I have seen seome students in serependeity walk see businesses in crowded cbds, or see glorious big businesses in tracts of cogon grass.
For instance you see municipalities now having difficulties with solid waste and at the same time soaring electricity prices
This post has seen posts by a relative and former staff, criticizing and ridiculing some famous or high ranking govt officials. As of now, they can freely do this as this is a free country. And perhaps those high ranking officials will ignore their rantings now and dismiss their nega posts about them
How they talk the personalities down is something I can not stomach.
I rather improve myself than devote time on things I can not change. What a waste of time and talent
But what if they are listed down and they take a revenge.
This is one of the advice of Dale Carnegie not to condemn, criticize, or complain.
What comes, comes around and comes around hard. Karma is real. For every action there is an equal opposite reaction. Someone should remind or tell them
In my readings and discussion with JP last Sunday, we should be clear at the start on why you need to make money. Without money, you have nothing to help the world become a better world.
Thus if you ever want to be wealthy, you have to partake or use the money for the right purpose ie make the world a better place.
This has to come first rather than making money first and then donating what is excess Always the first fruit.
Tithing...
Scholarship
Social welfare
Building churches
Spreading the word
School room donation
We were able to do this before. We hope to do this again till our last breath
Before: (though it is wrong to announce what ever good works you are doing)
1. Sent poor but deserving students free on their college education - 30 in all
2. Established a rescure operations and patient transport - bought 2 ambulances
3. Bought firetrucks and established a volunteer fire brigade because there was no firetruck at that
time in Angono
4. Helped finish 2 churches: one nearby, and other in SJ del Monte
5. Helped and donated flood struck areas
6. Helped hospicio
7. In Taytay provided free intermetns to indigent residents of floodway
I just watched a video decrying the fact that Chinese Bombay, Japanese, Koreans, come over to the Philippines to do business, because they say there is a lot of money to be made in the Philippines. And we Filipinos leave the country to what? Work abroad as DH and as employees. It may be in the mindset. Chinese value being a business owner, the head of a lion rather than a hair of a dragon or elephant.
""Anak, mag aral ka para maging negosyante" Chinese"
"Anak mag aral ka para pagdating ng panahon, may maganda kang trabaho. Fil"
Sadly again for a time, gusto ng nanay makapag Japan mga anak na babae. (While during the Japanese occupation, parents advice their daughters to avoid Japanese because they may be assaulted)
There are two conflicting thoughts: one is to be kind and helpful - tell to the world. And this post would like to live by that paradigm. All that was given to you free shall be re given to others free . A certain religous and ethnic group likes to live by this and are truly blessed.
However there is another point of view the Machiavellian point of view that others must give respect and honor to your unique talents and leadership.
Which is better?
For the first one, I could not get any consultancy because I give the secret to all those who ask. And my distinct advantage over others do not get more noticed. Others take advantage of my generosity. Even our business partners. They pick my brains and then proceed to do it on their own. No respect. No NDA
I would like to tell of a story of a business person who got the best deal out of me/us: (and abused us)
1. Sued us constantly
2. Made it hard to give us ROW. It had been pending for 20 years +
3. Having an appointment with her takes ages and is extremely difficult
However a member of the family got critically ill and has 7 number bill at the hospital and would want me to give her aid.
Should we or not. Or the person reaps what she has sowed
Last year and lately I have encountered people who have not moved forward because their mindset were static
1. A relative approached me and was looking for livelihood. So I offered her to be an agent of a project but said it was too far away and the locals would have advantage. So let it be Now the project is 50 % sold out. We have just two remaining inventories for the large lots and 50% remaining inventory for small lots. As for the other agents who persisted they are now enjoying the fruits of their labor
2. We offered our staff a small but substantial com for selling lots (they are salaried) and reaching targets
They have not responded positively to this
3. There was this contractor whom I guided to have a business deal. I helped him close the deal. But he remained to be a guy who stood behind my pants and shadow. He need to be reminded and followed up and lacked guts. He was aftraid of pre selling and moving ahead. He is awaiting for validation and approval. At age of junior no such approval are needed.. FSA. Full speed ahead.
A thought is just an electron, a pulse a wave of energy . and then its gone. But when you write this down, and capture and write it down. It becomes a particle
From the ether to physical universe. It becomes write. When you write, the neuro transmitter fires off, the impression is in thousands of location. (when you type there are less)
Doug MacMillan was panicking and ordered to buy Jet Com, headed by Mark Lor. for $3.2 billion. Jet.com is losing money. But it was not Jetcom that was bought. It was the talent of Mark Mark starts digital platform for Walmart. (The same like NXT bought by Apple - a ploy to bring back Steve Jobs to Apple)
The sales advice was probably adopted from the lines taught at Machiavellis Prin
There are 5 tactics:
The Illusion of Choice Technique (advanced closing strategy) ✔️ How to create scarcity and urgency in sales ✔️ The power of psychological triggers in marketing ✔️ Narrative control and authority positioning ✔️ The Strategic Retreat Method (reverse psychology in selling)
1. The illusion of choice
Control the choice. Do not give the customer unlimited choice
But actually the choice has been made. By employing the good
better strategy. Good is the more expensive and then presenting the
more affordable. It is often a used word: decision becomes inevitable
2. Creating scarcity:
Fear sells. It is better to be feared rather than loved
Either by telling shortage in inventory, or time frame. When there is risk or danger, a person rush to make decision We are adopting this in Temu marketing promos beginning March 16. Limited promo items, and campaigns running 4 weeks at most.
FOMO (fear of missing out)
3. Psychological triggers
Mask of authencity. Perceived authencity. Skill appears trustworth.
One who can give a good advice to build trust.
Appear to be one with them, but actually pushes own agenda
4. Narrative control of authority
Ask question vs defending. Stay on offense.
Appear to be the expert
5. Strategic withdrawal
Dont be desperate. Appear to be not needing tthe agent.
1. Now is not the best time
2. Maybe you need to have more research
Do you appear to be manipulative? But are you not selling everyday. ?
The MIT monk mentions his stint at MIT about firehose, (and or Hell Week) Having a situation where there are so many tasks that seem to be impossible to finish. Then you learn to delegate, collaborate, and have a system. Otherwise you will fail.
Then at Golman Sachs, their assignment in real world (and this is for the sellers) to raise P100,000 in your personal income in one month. That is tough if you are not resourceful and you are thinking 8-5 worker. I am happy that when this was assigned to the latest batch of trainees, they came through. Marketing people should be subjected to that kind of situation or given that exercise
The author became a street boy (a runaway) monk, MIT student, later a CEO of tech company (even AI)
He lists down in this video hacks that should have been learned earlier.
Some of them:
1. Differentiate between savings and investment. Or you can have both. Savings let you earn 1/4 of 1% while investment tied to S & P can get you more, Compounding plays out better.
2. Stop believing in the American dream. Limited opportunities now, less jobs, heavy taxation.
Only 4% make it through and become successful, the 96% suffer.
3 Practice practice practice in what you are good at. (There is no inherent genius. Only practice creates geniuses. Some people who are determined are good in practice. Athletes, musicians, actors practice this Even doctors. What are you good at? Do you practice constantly
4. Look at yourself as an investment portfolio. Do you spend on your education and self improvement? Are you gettting desired returns. Wilkinson said that fortune are preceded by education and intelligence
5. Move where the opportunites are:
NY, Boston, SF, Chicago. Where the talented and fortunate are. They are not in the boondooks
6. Equity and salary.
You become rich early. You behave differently when you are the owner. Salary is a trap is an addiction.
7. Humble yourself. Get a mentor
Not the coaches who are paid exorbitantly. Be coached by someone who has made it. Some will coach you free if he can get an action of your venture.
8. Have an emergency fund
1. For medical emergency
2. When you are laid off
3. Acts of God: flood, typhoon,
9. Have your own FBI. (Financial Bureau of Investigation) to find out where your money goes.
In this priority/order:
1. Emergency
2 Equity
3. Essential
4. Enjoyment
Allocate $ or PHP first in 1-3 before going to # 4
10. American dream can become the American debt. Avoid debt at all costs. Buying homes early while young can be a catastrophe.
11. Be financial literate. There are apps you get into or YT videos . There is no excuse. There are books: Psychology of Money, and the Algebra of Wealth Compounding. These are precious guides.
12 Automate personal finance. There are apps that can do this for you.
13. Go analog. Read read read books.
14. Failure as a teacher like as on the spot firing being jobless, being homeless. Be prepared and develop resilience from that. Find something positive in bad experiences to bring out the best in you. Find the strength that you have missed. It can let you see the road beyond the corner and find the best you
15. Find the krypto in you (what destroys Superman) find the antidotes and seek people who can support you and give your strrength.
16. Dont play victim
Dont hold grudges. Stay friendly even with those people who wronged you.
17. Find the right partner. Who can give you support in the worst of conditions.
18. Forgive yourself and live away from the past - Abusive parents, bad employers, misfortunes. Stay in the present find something positive and be a good person now.
19. Think of yourself as someone living for others to be their best Find out how can that happen By finding love and service. What impact can we have on others lives.
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20. Happiness = Resources/need Thus increase your resources and decrease need If your need is 0 your happiness becomes infinite
They are so analytical, sees more than 15 downsides in an opportunity, and prefers to be analytical. The less educated, less analytical fail to see the risk breeze through the process, and gets the roi...
I saw this. The educated PO dumped two multi billion projects which we passed on to other allies.
The author became a MULTIMILLIONAIRE. Do you want to be one. Just like him ? (He became CEO of his company.)
I worked under one such grad when I became an EVP of Savings and Loan Assocation. I used to hate him, but adjusted him and we became a friend in Land Rover club where we now show our own vehicles and as equals. Learned a lot from him on leadership and management
There were many hacks committed at the top of dome of MIT: cars assembled on top, flags, and many more done by the students. They beat the system and they had fun.
You must love the system and then have fun. You cant beat and hate the system.
(We have people who say we dont have system.
Be even able to hack the system. (Many do cross the line and become criminals.or our competitor)
2. Firehose test.
Students were exposed to loads of work that they cant seem to finish. This develops ingenuity of what should be finished. You ask the question, how can I cope?
It develops ingenuity.
1. Time management
2. Prioritization
3. Cooperation and collaboration
Effort is NOT EQUAL TO PURPOSE.
Purpose is:
1 Impacful
2 Important
3. Irreversible
We have recruits who complain at slightest hint of hard work, and complexity
3. Find the first principles
Problems, challenges can be daunting. Especially innovation. Find the first principle. Break down everything into basic parts. And then it becomes easier.
Steps: Find 1. Facts
2. Aspiration (your goals)
3. Do tests (experiments)
Elon Musk used this in changing the business/rocket science. He found out that
single use rocket launches are very complex and expensive (NASA made it so) and found out that rocket launchis only 2% of what NASA spends. And from therEM built a multi million Space ex business
4. Mind and hand approach
Being practical. Leave the academic and book part. Do something practical
FInd the MVP (Minimum Viable Product and improve on this) An MVP is better
than no product at all. You can improve a prototype but not on nothing. Do it now 60% is better than doing it
105% tomorrow
Practice
1 Building the product
2. Test
3. Go to the first principle
At MIT they have a one month period where students do this to present to the VC. And they end up owning new venures, financed by Venture Capital
5. You do not graduate alone even if you are the smartest guy in the room.
You need a team, you need collaboration. you need a mastermind. though
how smart you are. John Maxmell term it as the Law of the Lid. All of major
discoveries and invention now are results of team effort.
This idea makes you humble and become less of pain in the ass. of others. Your group becomes better
This post read in an FB post about neuro science, things CIA wont tell you. It is about your brain being programmed in 24 hours to see reality as the brain sees it in and not matching reality. This can be used in creating spins and recruiting agents or conspirators. There are several steps:
1. Write down what you want to see
2 Read it aloud
3. Sleep on it.
There are several names given to this by experts: sublimimal autosuggestion.
Thus when an Indian soothsayer predicted that I would create wealth for family that would last for several generations my brain, or I sincerely believed that is true. And my body worked hard for it for the last 40 years. And they all came true.
All things that were created came from your mind other peoples mind.
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
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
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
5. A lady CEO suddenly became a billionaire and was featured at social media. There are however allegations that she is doing ML for frmr congressman who was seen at Portugal. (She went to Portugal too)
1. To achieve efficiency by having people follow a uniform process or system
2. To move as a community forward
3. To achieve viability and continuity by being profitable
Background
1. An elderly employee was less than truthful regarding her timing in and then
attending to personal matter, and doing the payroll herself, failed to deduct
her undertime
2. A staff mentioned about her previous employer (not a nice topic when we
are enjoined to observe FAR
3. An elderly staff discussed generically about cash advance, but the topic assigned was about revolving fund and pcf. not a good communication or initiative to research
4. An elderly staff answered that we do not have system!!??
5. Closed mind talaga isa pang elderly: injecting her agenda despite a prescribed
agenda
What to do:
1. Practice SUNNAO. Empty your cup. Nothing will be poured into your cup if
its full.
2. Observe ABCD DOCTRINE
ACCEPT
BELIEVE
COOPERATE
DANCE WITH THE MUSIC
3. LISTEN
1 Hear with your ear, LISTEN WITH YOUR HEART
2. A doctor can cure you by asking you questions and listening to you.
3. Dale Carnegie prescribes listening as an important practice in winning
friends and influence people
How can we achieve our goal and be successful when certain people are hell
bent on disagreeing (rather than agreeing) right even the conversation starts
4. A SYSTEM IS IN PLACE
Many new hires comment in a similar manner as we have heard today: But that is
being objected to vehemently by this post. No effort has been spared to
strengthen our system by documenting this properly at:
1. MC
2. Handbook
3. Admin plans
4 Memoranda
5. Gmeet and and seminars /workshop
The only problems lies in:
1. Closed mind
2. Lack of ABCD, FAR, 3fold duties
3. Living in the past: mentioning past jobs always. (They can always return
During one of the get togethers we had of alumni of a prestigious Catholic universities we went to the topic of courses taken at the undergrad and their values. Mine was on behavioral sciences. Most of them were on sciences and engineering, math.
They said they are fixed and and predictable but human behavior is not.
But even behavioral sciences is perplexed on human behavior - no one can predict. Maybe BF Skinner
behavioral reeenforcements works on birds, and dolphins but not much on homo sapiens. Did you see the horror video on the orcas devouring the trainer, or tigers too mangling trainers?
Some of the most ungrateful species belong to the homo species. You do everything to please and motivate them but in the end they bite back (like the snakes) and are ungrateful. And that you must accept. No behavioral science theory can predict and or shape how people behave. You have to be prepared for the worst
Just look at our well paid policeman teachers, and solons. They have not changed.
Has the police force improved its public service?
How about the quality of education?
How about the graft and corruption allegation vs solons and members of the executive branch
The question lies in the human character, will and integrity. Not much of external carrots and sticks
Kaya the military excels in instilling internal changes in the mindsets of soldiers. Hence theirs success
I have to do a lot of repeated travels to talk face to face with people. The pandemic and the current "repre sent tibs" "tong gressman" have thrown integrity and character to the window and the dogs. Our staff dont care about the community - about the bayan Forgot to become BAYANI. Panay sarili.
That means: no improvement, walang malasakit, walang unity, walang teamwork. Poverty for the outsiders.
No sense of mission. Selfish. Kanya kanya and with it comes feeling entitlement and with it theft and dishonesty. Sayang mga Pinoy. Sayang pinag aralan
Early in my life I built and reenforced my perceived success with its trappings: expensive cars - BMW, Range Rover Patrol SUV, Land Cruiser etc watches, big house. Of course you need to impress others with your achievements You need trophies for them to trust you
But later on this post found more basic things in life: good health, good family relationships, kindness to people, legacy, character
And to build your business you need speaking nego skills, knowing math and knowing how to balance your need vs the other negotiator and its going to be win win for both. I found out that negotiation is not easily learned and some falter in negotiation and have not prepared well for it when the issue comes.
