Employees Need a Business Mindset More Than Anyone
Employees Need a Business Mindset More Than Anyone
If like most people you have 9 to 5 job and don't consider yourself a business owner or an entrepreneur, then why on earth would you need a business mindset?
The truth is, in this situation you really do need a business mindset more than anyone.
Still don't believe me? Let me give you some good reasons as to why.
Breeding Financial Stupidity
Do you remember back in your school days when you learned about managing money, interest rates, loans, credit cards, etc? No... me neither, because we were never taught anything like that.
Ever wondered why? Well, I'm not into conspiracy theories but if you were in government and taking taxes from people, would you want them to be financially intelligent or financially dumb? Exactly.
We never learned about finance at school, even though in various forms it dominates out adult lives. Let me tell you also, we never will learn about finances unless we make it a personal goal to learn for ourselves.
How Else Did They Mislead Us?
So that raises the question, what else were we not taught and what else were we taught which was just plain misleading?
A secure job for life with a good pension, there's a good one. I could talk forever about this old chestnut. Secure jobs hardly exist anymore. As for a job for life, considering that most people don't like their job, why on earth would you want one for life, even if they did exist?
Secure jobs for life are a thing of the past, from the industrial age. We're in the information age now, we need to move on from this old outdated idea.
If you've listened to the news in recent years then you'll have noticed that pensions aren't exactly the nest egg we were told they would be either.
Just using the recent BP crisis as an example, 55bn wiped of the share price so far. I'm sorry to tell you this but those shares make up a large proportion of a lot of peoples pensions. Sorry, someone just sat on your egg.
It's an old saying that your employee only pays you enough to stop you leaving and you only work hard enough to stop them firing you. In many cases this is true and it's hardly a recipe for fulfillment and wealth.
Even in the highest paid jobs you're still limited to 'hourly rate x hours worked' so you'll never achieve freedom and wealth, it's not possible. Don't even bother trying.
Are You Convinced of a Business Mindset Yet?
Now, I really could go on and on about this but hopefully I've done enough to convince you that employees really do need a business mindset more than anyone.
They have the most to gain and the most to lose if no-one teaches them that what they learned at school about secure jobs and pensions was misleading them.
Just as importantly what they weren't taught at school is having an equally negative effect on their lives.
I'm Just Being Cruel to be Kind
Now, I know that any career minded people reading this might be offended by what I've said. This is because I have just instilled doubt in their minds about beliefs they've felt strongly about all their lives.
This is not an easy pill to swallow for anyone and I can sympathise but I can't apologise. I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to teach you what everyone else so far in your life has failed to do.
If what I've just written made any sense to you then I've achieved something. Stick around because I have a whole lot more like this to teach you about the business mindset. We've only just scratched the surface.
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