Business and Money Tips

Our achievement-oriented society is always crazy about skills and certification: the more skilled you are, the higher would be your income. However, we do know that in the longer term, having more skills without being skillful will not sustain your success.  You need to be both skilled and skillful to enjoy sustainable growth.   By the way, skillful means being careful, mindful, considerate  and most importantly, having good intention with wholesome thoughts .  Wholesome thoughts include love, kindness, equanimity, empathy and joy.  For example, if I am a skillful driver, I would be very considerate and would not want to cause traffic jams unnecessary by driving too slow during peak hours.  A skilled driver may not be as skillful as me unless he has the same state of mind as me.  At the end of the day, what matters are always moments: it is not what you do but what you do in that moment that makes the difference .  Accidents are usually caus...

A movie's success depended upon the setting, the mood, the script, the skills of the director, and the overall talent of the cast. Same for a company. 1. Setting. Setting here refers to the v ision, mission and goals of the business. If your business has no goals and vision, the setting will be one of ad hoc. It also includes the structure, rules and boundaries. 2. Mood , which is simply morale and the connection feeling in the company. If people feel connected, their morale will be high, and motivation is not an issue. 3. Script . This is your company's plans and operations manual on how people perform their roles. It also includes the day-to-day operational conversation script , how people speak in a consistent and professional way. 4. Skills of Director . This is the skillfulness of the leaders . Skillfulness is more than having skills, it is doing things mindfully and with conviction . Of course the more trained the leaders are, the more skillfull they can do the...