The 3 types of staff that the company values

Business is about making profits. No matter how kind heart and forgiving your boss can be, there is still a limit for all things, that is determined by the revenue and cost associated with the staff.

If you want to be of value to your company, you have to strive to be one of the 3 types of staff below:

• One with professional knowledge and skill - who ensure the smooth operation of the business activities, and solving all technical issues
• One with creativity, capable of thinking of new ways of doing things - who ensure innovative, enhancing the business operation
• One who can manage people - who is capable of solving personal conflicts, getting people to work together and developing the potential of others

If you do not belong to the above 3 types of staff, then you are most probably being classified as a disposable worker, who will be the first in line for disposal when needed, especially during financial crisis.

The business world is a cruel and realistic environment.

Always bear in mind that your worth to the company, is decided by the amount of revenue and benefits you bring to the company, and the cost of employing you. Never forget that the company has no obligation to ensure your survival in the society.


Honesty
Although, you may be one, both or all of the above 3 types of staff, there is still one more criteria you have to achieve before your boss will truly value you. And that is honesty

As your boss is a businessman, he will wish the company can run smoothly on its own, with little of his interventions. Therefore, he needs someone he can trust to manage the company, so that he can free his time for other matters.

And honesty will be the primary element for him to decide if he should promote you as one of the management. As why will he promote a dishonest person who will spoil or steal his business?

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Time wastage

The most precious thing that a person can waste is time. As you only live once. Yet in this society, not many know and value the importance of time. Majority just waste their time meaninglessly and regret it at the later part of their life. 

Ask yourself, have you start to regret wasting part of your time already? And if you are confident that at your moment, you are able to tell yourself that you do not have much regret in how you have spent your time?

Prevent yourself from losing precious time that could have been used to create meaningful moments, is the most important thing that you should achieve while living. If not your life never be live to the fullest. 

Remember, the most successful and happiest people are often those who can manage their time efficiently. Knowing what their priorities and goals are, and having the determination and self discipline to say no to the difference temptations in their surrounding, while utilizing their time and efforts towards the direction they want their life to be in.

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The strong and the weak

It is a social norm that most people only feel obligated to help those who they feel are superior to them. As for those who they feel are inferior to them, they will want them to continue to be a failure, so that they can comfortably know there is always someone who is more lousy. This is an undeniable human nature, where we prey on the weak and respect the strong. 

No one likes to be the last in line and no one likes to be overtaken in life or in social status. Hence, most people will try their best effort to undermine those who they have already identified as being “weak”, limiting the respects, resources, and opportunities that the “weak” could get, so to maintain status quo and keep them in line. 

Therefore, convince others that you have a strong mindset, willing to take up the challenges and conflicts, willing to compete with others and willing to strive for improvement in life. And everyone will by default feel obligated to help someone as strong as you, as they will not classify you as a weakling that need to be kept in a lower social status. Instead, they will treat you as a companion to work together and strive for success. 

If you show a sense of weakness to others, people will only feel obligated to pull you down and step on you for their own success or entertainment. As by default they will put little or no worth in you. 

This how dirty the human society is, grouping people into different social status and classes, with different types of restrictions, unfair treatment and bias. 

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Standard steps in dealing with a problem

Below are a guideline for basic steps an individual should follow when facing a problem in life. 

Step 1

Stay as calm as possible and control all your emotions. Do not overreact as it will prevent your brain from thinking properly, which in turn cause you to make the wrong decision. 

Don’t let your mind be overwhelmed or feel anxious when challenged by others. And never went around blaming others without any grounds or solid evidence, as it is counterproductive and can even cause further unwanted issues. 

Step 2

Understand the roots and causes of the problems. And determine if it is really your fault and if you should be taking responsibility. 

Always bear in mind that there are always people around you who will push their mistakes and problems to you, while you are unaware of the situation or lack of critical information. Identify if the problem is a setup by other or it is really your mistake. 

If it is a setup, then return the problem back to the culprit. If it is too late or due to certain circumstances that you are unable to do so. Then always bear it in your mind, that this bastard has makes use of your trust and taken advantage of you. Label him as an untrustworthy person, and never trust him fully, so that he has less chance of hurting you again. 

Step 3 

If the problem is really due to your mistake, bravely accept responsibility for it. As only by accepting responsibility, then will you be willing to actively and constructively deal with the problem. 

And by accepting responsibility, it also allows you to have more options in how you can solve the problem.

Deny responsibility when it is obviously your fault, will only let other detest you and limits the amount of help you can get. 

Step 4

Determine if a quick solution or a slow solution is needed to solve the problem. Some problems required a quick solution as it will get even more problematic, if the problem is not solved as soon as possible. 

However, there are some problems that do not require a quick solution, as a quick solution can instead cause even more conflict and displeasure among different parties. For this type of problem, a slow and unresponsive solution will be better. As it either aim to slowly untangle the problem bit by bit, or to just drag and drag the problem, till it solve itself. 

Step 5

To discuss with others on the solution you have come out with. It is important to discuss the solution you have before implementing it, the knowledge and experience of the other parties can help you identify the pros and cons of your solution. And with it, you can better assess the consequences of implementing your solution and if there a need to rethink again. 

Step 6

Have faith in yourself. Once you have decided on the solution. Carry it out with confidence, as your confidence shall determine the trust that others are willing to put in you. If you don’t not show much confidence, not much people will be willing to assist you, and this will in turn jeopardize the success of your solution. 

Step 7

Keep your expectations realistic and evaluate the outcome of the solution. Determine if the problem has been solved, or sequences follow up is needed. 

Step 8

Set reminder for yourself never to repeat the mistake again. As making a new mistake creates new learning opportunity and experience, but repeating the same mistake again is pure stupidity. 

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Missed opportunity

In life, there are moments and people that once you missed out on them, you will never have the opportunity again. Therefore, cherish all the opportunities you have in front of you. 

As in the end of our lifetime, we only regret the chances that we could have taken, yet didn’t.. 

In order to ensure that we minimize the amount of missed opportunity in your file, we would need to develop within ourselves the below priorities, mindset, character and skills.

No:1
To develop a form of awareness in identifying all the opportunity around as. Understanding the cost and potential in each of our action taken. This will require experience through constant interaction with others.

No:2
To understand and know the different groups of people around you, and learn from them what is it they would want for you. And it will give you a better idea if their actions toward you are sincere. There is always a “why” for each action.

No:3
To recognize what is it that you really want in your life? As only opportunities that can get you to your desired goals matters. We have limited time, therefore, we should only spend it on opportunities that can lead us towards our goals. Such goals can be: the relationship you want to have, the career you want to work in, the car you want to own, any dreams or self development and etc.

No:4
To read up for knowledge and information of the society and environment that help us determine if what that is present to us is an opportunity or a scam. As among the society, there are tricksters who use dreams and goals to bait you into their scam, so as to trick money out of you.

No:5
To develop the ability and personality that is required to take the opportunity. Opportunities often appear out of the sudden, and only those who are prepared can grab hold on it. After all, it all go down to what you can give, in order to trade for the opportunities. If you are not capable for the task, opportunity will just turn away from you, simply because that you are not worthy of it.

No:6
To reflect on your past mistakes. Identify all the regret that you have on the past missed opportunities, and find out the cause of it. And make sure that you do not repeat them again.

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Learning from your job

The most valuable wealth is not about the amount of salary that you can get from your job. 

The greatest wealth you can get from your job is the amount of knowledge that you can learn, and the opportunity available for you to develop yourself. 

This is especially true for those who are just starting to work. As even if you get a higher salary from your peers when you first started working, but without the opportunity to develop yourself and gain more experience and learn new things, your salary will remain stagnant, and you most probably won't have the chance to a much higher paying job in the future, due to your limitations of skill set.

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Is democracy workable in today's society?

Is democracy workable? It does give the people more power as compared to the era of monarchy, but it is enough to create a society of fairness and justice?

In my personal opinion, the answer is no. 

Democracy separate the main power of a country into three, which are the a) Legislature, b) Executive & c) Judiciary. Each serve their own purpose to create a balance of power.

Among the 3 power the legislature and the executive are often being voted into power by the people, this however will vary between countries. 

Other than the 3 main power, there is also another soft power that had direct influence on the balance of power, and this is the media, who provide information to the people.

Yet often in most countries, the media are being often being controlled by the rich and powerful for spreading of new that is favor of them and blocking information that is unfavorable.

Most voters often vote out of emotions or greed, with only a few voters vote intelligently for the future of the country, as not all bother to think deeply into difference issue that the country is facing. They prefer rewards to be given immediately to them or they just want a channel to vent out their anger. 

Media, just want to earn money through their advertisements and to stay out of unnecessary troubles, after all, it still goes down to making enough profit. 

There is not real institution that truly educate the people on how the countries should be government and how their votes should be casted for the right cause. Neither is there a full disclosure of how politicians are cooperating with the rich and powerful to harm the people, through the passing of certain bills and laws, and even if there is, such disclosure will be silent by others or be forgotten by the people. 

With a lack of true information from the media to educate the people, and the enthusiasm of the people to participate in politics, democracy in today's society is just a mere playground, where the votes of the people are just bargaining chip between the voters, politicians and the rich and powerful, in their contest of power to rule the country. Rather than a true check and balance to guide the country towards a fair and just society. 

It just about satisfying the desire of the majority of the voters by the politicians, and in exchange, the politicians will use the power they have to demand benefits from the rich and powerful, and the rich and powerful will profit against the people through their companies. 

It a vicious cycle of greed that will ultimately lead the country toward destruction. 

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