....here’s the point                  

Things that happen most every day in business.

1. Glad handing.

Beware of phony compliments showered upon you by those seeking something from you.  Compliments like that are suspicious at best.  And as much as you may want to believe them, don’t!.  Sticks and stones may break your bones but glad handing will break your wallet.

2. A team is a group striving to achieve a common goal, with each member seeking special recognition for themselves.  Many members of a group claim to be the driving force or major contributor behind a successful effort.  No one seeks responsibility for a failure.

• Group harmony is more a show for public relations than a reality.

3. Relying on the loyalty of your employer often means putting your job at risk. When it is your needs vs. their needs, it will be their needs.  When push comes to shove, if you are not on the side they want you to be on, they may shove you.  

3A. A government has almost unlimited ability to interfere with your life.  You have limited ability and resources to protect yourself.

• If someone in government decides you’re not on their side, too often they can use their position and the government’s power to disrupt you.

4. A person working for a company is not simply an employee working for a salary. That person is a specialist selling their services to one client at a time.  The company with the best offer should receive that service.

• Companies seek the best service at the best price, whether it is service from you or someone other than you.

5. Reminiscing that employer loyalty to its employees is languishing in the dust bin of history is a waste of time.  If you go back into that dust bin you will see very little evidence of true employer loyalty, ever.

• Employers feel it is incumbent upon an employee to be loyal to them.  Employers do not seem to feel the same in reverse.

6. Many an employer will say to a new, mostly young applicant, that even though they will not be paid much they will gain much experience.  That employee eventually finds out that some of the experience they gained was that they were not paid very much.

7. If a business investment seems too good to be true, many people will still think it’s true. Take the "dot coms" for example.  Now you can take lots of them for cheap.  The ability to predict the future seems to show little difference between those with significant investment experience or very little.

• So-called experts who predict the immediate future in the stock market are much better at explaining later why their prediction didn’t happen.  If you look at all their prior predictions over a period of time you may be surprised to find out that many of their other predictions were also incorrect.

8. Being in the "right" according to the law is only a partial victory.  It also takes significant money to enforce that right.

• To be able to easily afford the cost of litigation is to be able to be a bully.  Survival of the richest.  And justice for $ome.
• Bullies didn’t stop in the schoolyard.

9. A boss will always judge you on merit......and sometimes from the gossip heard around the office.

10. Hunger is the mother’s milk of deception.  If someone needs something badly enough, they’ll do or say or promise whatever it takes to get it.

• Greed is the intoxicant of deception. If someone wants something badly enough, they’ll do or say or promise whatever it takes to get it.

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