How to Add Value and Conserve the Environment May 11, 2007
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I want to protect environmental values. Therefore I find the idea of adding extra values to everyday actions for the benefit of everyone as a beautiful but also problematic idea. Isn’t the valueless environment the one that looses in the trade off of these human values? Since these mental values as joy and pride still come from the addition of resources from the environment in some way.
It is not about making a big or little effect. It is about being the best person you can be by finding your value and creating your value. The greatest value we can be for others is for them to find their unique value so they can create their value. Value does not have to come from our external environment, 80% of business in the USA is in services.
Starting Your Business Without a Mortgage March 15, 2007
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How do you start a business when the starting situation is a huge mortgage?
How could you start or run your own business without a huge mortgage? E.g. Dell Computers. They get paid before they make the product.
A Hobby as a Career March 12, 2007
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A hobby is a hobby. There are millions of people who are more educated and professional in their hobby area. Can I really have my hobby as my career?
Each of us is unique. We attract to ourselves those who can benefit from what we can offer and the way we offer it. What you do can be an expression of what you most enjoy offering to them.
Succeeding by Being Yourself March 9, 2007
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Why do people try to become someone else in order to succeed? And even employers are trying to force employees into a single form style. In applications everybody’s “lying” about the same things, forcing themselves into being “open” and “positive”, because they think that’s what they have to be. Large companies take advantage of the desperate.
Because they are not clear about their own unique value. Be true to who you are. That is when you are in your power. Being like someone else puts you outside your power.
Being Good Enough February 22, 2007
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If my first plan with my studies does not get me where I feel happy then my hobbies give me a back up plan and it is never too late to change my plan. I have things that I love but I feel none of them are something I am good enough in to make it into my future. What should I do now?
You are good enough by just being you. Your future is now. Be your best self now. Don’t wait. All your life was a preparation of this moment. It’s not about hobbies. It is about expressing the best of you – your highest value.
A Proven Way to Get the Job February 15, 2007
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When you go to the job interview take with you your proposal. Call it “How I Will Create Value For X Y Z Ltd in the role of [the job you are applying for]” One A4 sheet. No more.
Employers only wish to employ people because they can enable their organisation to better achieve its objectives, i.e. public Sector: create value effectively for “customers”; private Sector: create value effectively “customers” and the organisation (= profit; increasing sales income and/or decreasing costs). Your Proposal explains how you will better enable the organisation to achieve its objectives.
Most other applicants will only supply their CV’s which is what is usually asked for. If you only supply your CV you are the same as the rest, who may have similar qualifications as you. Why should an employer choose you and not someone else? They need a reason. Your proposal gives them that reason.
The Proposal
State in your proposal:
Entrepreneurs and Burnout February 14, 2007
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How can you deal with the entrepreneurship, which is taking whole time in your life? How can you find the joy and how can you get back the joy which you have lost? What do you think about entrepreneurs that burn out and stress? What helps?
You decide how much time entrepreneurship takes. Joy, the character in the story, did less on one thing and more of something else.
Joy is always within you. Ask: Why do I do what I do?
Entrepreneurs burn out trying to prove themselves. There is nothing to prove!
4 Steps to Proving Your Value February 5, 2007
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Not really a question, but I’m about to use an approach very similar to your description of “what value I can add to the organization” when I apply for the Boston Consulting Group’s intern program — any comments welcome.
Employers employ people if they create more (economic) value than what they are paid. The more value you can show you can create, the more willing organizations will be to employ you.
- Know the value you most wish to create. Know what inspires you, your strengths, abilities, knowing, expertise.
- Know what value your perspective employer wants or could most benefit from that you can provide. To find this out:
- Speak with current employees
- Read their reports
- Research what has been said about them in the media
- Explain to the prospective employer how you are going to create the value they want.
- Give them the evidence (qualifications: experience, letters of support) proving that you are able to produce the value they want.
If necessary, to demonstrate your worth, offer to work for no money for an agreed period of time. At the end of that period, if you have proven your worth, they pay you. If you have not proven your worth, they are not required to pay you.
