Tag: Change

Corrupt Systems

So the question I have been asked in the last couple of months is “how do businesses survive Corrupt Systems?”

It appears we live in a world of two forms of business and one form of government. Does it pay to be honest?

Yes! Not because the penalties are draconian, rather because it creates backbone, resilience and loyalty.

It has always been true

In the past it was common for small scale corruption to affect the small business owners, but today it is everywhere. The system is rigged to ensure that those with power attract money. Recent and current scandals demonstrate this.

So the Truth of business – real business is that it involves people, real people. Small businesses employ skilled individuals, invest in them and by extension their family, the community and the nation.

The products and services build on real relationships, I now look at services I buy and ask how long will it take me to talk to a real person? Not the CEO or MD but someone who looks after clients and customers.

If I start out with a chat bot when can I get to a real person – someone who will try and understand.

Business and services are about people, keep it local, stay relevant, be available and be honest. You never have the issue of watching your back or looking over your shoulder and your employees and contractors know they can rely on you.

Success and victory in the mountains.

Be Honest

All forms of deception are dangerous even white lies in business because they open the scope for more subtle forms of omitting information and spinning. Marketing isn’t about telling lies it is filling the buyers need.

If someone thinks a car can turn their life into something its not then their not the customer for you in the long run. We surviving by dealing in reality not social media. Living in the deception is corrupting the system.

So my Monday advice is give it your best. Let your products and services transcend the Corrupt System

Winning by generating loyalty and opportunities. Create your presence and make business pleasurable.

Understanding Politics

Understanding Politics is a fruitless task. The people who can make decisions that really count and make a big difference aren’t politicians.

For example: the real power behind the throne is money! Money and Power go hand in glove, it is rare to experience one without the other. For those without either it is never to their advantage.

History

Quakers were different, they had the money and access to power but decided to lift everyone with the new found wealth.

Focused on housing, education, health and rewarding work. They changed the UK and Europe.

However, along came the wars, one thing they wouldn’t engage in and their influence and power was lost. Replaced by Mutual Societies and Unions. Again some benefit to ordinary lives.

All short lived and doomed to failure. This is simply because No Good Idea goes unexploited. Government is designed to exploit the people based on a contract of safety and security. Rarely present in any culture.

Business and Trade

Money has always controlled how governments behave from the “robber barons” to the modern global organisations. They want the ordinary people to remain poor and fund the infrastructure they exploit.

So what works? The answer is focus on the three things you control:

  • Investment
  • Spending
  • Time

If we fail to invest in business we fail to invest the future, because it drives innovation and rewards imagination.

Spend recklessly and the big businesses get richer and the local high street closes. People lose their homes because small businesses fail and the government gets bigger.

From the software we use to the food we eat there is real choice but it all depends on how we use our time! 168 hours in every week and the media controls on average 3 to 5 hours a day. Filling minds with despair and depression – just look at the soaps.

The world created can be changed and it will be when people come before profit, honesty and integrity come before income, when food and good housing are truly a “Human Right”.

Open your eyes

50 years of trying to make sense of senselessness is going to make you old, depressed and discontent.

We can’t change the political world or commerce globally but we can invest in a real future by setting accountable targets and personal goals that ask hard questions of others.

Stop following and start searching, Business can make a big difference when there is a commitment to value, to fairness and a balance based on real need. Feed the poor, house the homeless and ensure work is available. We do that not through Politics but through controlling our investment, spending and time.

Free style writing is a relief and after more than 30 years it is good to finally say, “the big con is on and the majority have been sucked in” the sad thing is the pay-off is going to result in more than the effects of global warming and climate change.

So back to my business, I will be available to write documents and sell product, but why not set me a real challenge – ask me for the best social value strategy for business and become the difference in just a few lives. Everyone does it we change the world. No one does it then my favourite Dad’s Army quote rings true “We’re Doooom!!”