Businesses today are filled with specialized jobs, dead end jobs that go nowhere.  Whether the company serves hamburgers or builds state of the art airplanes, each employee has a specialized dead-end job.  Specialization leads to boredom, stagnation and unhappy employees.  They business losses it’s most valuable;/ // asset: the brain power of its employees.   McDonald’s has their fry cooks, counter helpers,...

It comes at you suddenly; sometimes with no warning at all.  You have joined the ranks of the unemployed.  A whole range of emotions fill you:  Anger – How dare they; Confusion – Why me; Sadness – I’ve been abandoned by those I trusted; Fear – What do I do now.  You’ve lost your job.  Don’t panic.  This is time to take stock of where you are in your career life.  Are you happy in your career? ...

The problem with living off of the value creations of others; or providing charity to the point of dependency that we discussed in, (Part 1) How Can I Find Happiness in Life Once Again?, was that there could be no valuable exchange between the parties which provided a sense of self worth to the other.  This reminds me of a parable that reads like this:  Parable of the Value Destroyer  A certain rich man,...

How do you feel?  Are you happy?  What do you base your happiness on?  Is happiness just a feeling?  Can feelings of happiness come from tangible things in life?  What prevents happiness in your life?  If we loose our tangible material emblems of success that we have acquired in life, do we then also loose our happiness?  If so why?  I say that we should not simply have happiness “in life but we should...

One late evening as I looked out the window I was pleasantly surprised to finally see my neighbor out of the house, sitting on her back porch surrounded by friends and family with strategically placed bug lamps for comfort to help light the area.  They all seem to be enjoying each others’ company as they shared a meal together. For a moment I was reminded of how things were when I was growing up. It was a...

Business Vs Government A value is a product or service someone is willing to pay for. If no one is willing to pay for a product or service then it can’t be a value, at least in a business since. Children’s art may be precious and valuable to the parents, but it’s unlikely to hold business value. Business creates values. Without marketable values a business won’t turn a profit or survive. The...

Not So Neothink® Virtues in Today’s Free Market Business Enterprise? When I was employed as a Regional Marketing Coordinator for a company providing emergency response communications equipment to the fire and rescue industries, a regular part of the job was the submission of the bid proposal. In order to make that sale my bid proposal had to outline the product and proposed cost. If my bid were competitive,...

Have you been laid off ?This will never happen again I will share with you a little bit of who I am. Immediately after finishing high school, I entered the Heating and Air Conditioning Industry. At the age of 22 years old I became a Foreman, running High Rise Condominium Projects. During my working career, I survived through three very tough economic periods, the late 70′s, early 90′s, and current...

Business or Pleasure While witnessing the wedding ceremony of a businessman and his fiancé recently, I could not help but focus on the tremendous amount of planning and decision making that went into making their wedding day a success. What was obvious to me was the number of people that became employed to fulfill the wishes of the delightful couple. Talk about a stimulus package! The amazing thing about it...

Leaders — When your mind becomes your own authority. You have the power to release full human potential. You will see into the future, those visions become real as you move forward through life.Followers — wait for others to tell them what, how, and when to make a move. The following process, is the road to nowhere, that may end up in a stagnation rut. They put themselves into a thought process that...