3 competitive advantages

Be better than before, than yesterday...

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

Are you one?

Lack of integrity, lack of corde seen in many quarters - "when the cat is away...."

Be better than before, than yesterday...

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

Nawalang integrity...

All you need in life are your intellect and character - not cars, condos, watches or flashy gadgets

Be better than before, than yesterday...

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.

We should be grateful

It is about getting better...

Good manners and integrity (keeping your word) are important

Attended a lunch party and they were talking about our former washerwoman.   She did not appear in a 10 am appointment.  Was wondering why she has not appeared for a couple of months. 

I learned that she had spat with a wifey.   The wifey kept her in employ:   domestic, washer woman for over 3 decades.  She lost her respect and gratitude.

Why does it happen that way.?  Playing victim or a class struggle

Integrity is your most important asset in business negotiation

It is about getting better...

In our conversation with a business colleague, a top bank executive, and business woman, we both agreed that integrity ie our ability  to keep our word is our most important asset to get customers and investors.  Not your collateral or your branding.  

And yet so many people destroy their future and their hope of being wealthy by constantly not keeping their word.   Honor your promises.  Do it now.   I will do it.   Walk the talk

Show results.  Show what you have done.  Get the results

Talking is not enough, honor your word.  

Cornerstone of great leadership

Repost from Open Forum | May 17, 2013

The article starts with a very nice quote from John Quincy Adams: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

The four cornerstone of leadership are:  (VICC)

Vision

Integrity

Character

Credibility

Lay out on the table of what you think you are with words say not more than 20

The way to test is to ask people around you to describe you in terms of tagwords.  Match these to what you think you are.

Is there a gap

PIC - Passion, Integrity, and Competence

                                


MVP's words carry much weight, as super exec, tycoon.  Thus when he said that the three important requirements for an employee/officer to go up  corporate ladder are:   PIC :  Passion, Integrity, and Competence you gotta believe it.

On top of the list is Passion -  What is your desire, what do you enjoy doing.  You can not force an individual to do what he does not like to do.  A nursing graduate would be better applying for a nursing job in a hospital rather than be sales clerk.

Next is Integrity - Honesty. 

This is where we have so much failures. I have seen a cum laude stole money from the company in the amount that is 6 figures.  We filed a case against her and she died from cancer, without having been convicted from cancer;   from the rigors of cancer.

We have a 20 year old veteran, even who is a pastor, and talks very eloquently about the bible.  He is to be made responsible for P200,000 which he took from falsified deposit slips.

We had a newly minted manager and just ran away with P20,000.  Just 2 mos into the job.

We had an 8 year old veteran, just married, and born again.  She quotes the bible and is friend of the pastor.  She talks as if holier than thou.  She falsified IDs, loan documents and released  almost Pl00,000 in loan to herself.

May God save their souls.

Thus we see people who are educated but are bankrupt morally and in integrity.

Over emphasized in the past was competence.  But it should really be the last.