Me As A Corporation

ME AS A CORPORATION

UNDERSTANDING THE "ECONOMICS" OF ME

- ALL OF THE FACTORS

Not fully constructed, but there is enough for most people. Scan it for now, then use it as a sort of checklist, to complete and check of doing what works to get the most happiness for ourselves.

Introduction: Read Me As A Corporation - An Overview Introduction.

Corporate Economics = The organization of and effective use of resources to produce a profit that provides adequate return to the investors. However, ultimately, economics is a social science, based only on provideing the most good to human beings! (See Economics - The Philosophy: "The Maximization Of Units Of Satisfaction" and The Economics Of Life - Spend Your "Gold" Well, For Value, Or Keep Squandering It,

Reality - The real world has "laws" (like gravity) that we must obey and has certain ways that the mechanics of things work. All resources are "scarce", in that they are not unlimited, so we must allocate them judiciously.

HOW GOOD IS YOUR MANAGEMENT? - If you are living at the level as most people, the indicators are that you are not nearly as profitable as an "excellent", skilled management would generate. Unfortunately, you cannot fire yourself and get a new manager, so you must do whatever you can to gain the knowledge and skills to be high "life competent"!

HAVE YOU FILLED THE POSITIONS/ROLES NECESSARY TO RUN THE CORPORATION?

Roles to fill the "positions"

Know how things work and how to work them

object because they can't see the big picture

Machines to leverage myself to be more productive

Habits (Using The Power Of Habits)

Mechanics of my body & mind

Maintain the equipment (avoid "deferred" maintenanc)

HOW HIGH ARE YOUR NET "PROFITS" FROM YOUR LIFE?

Revenue (Positive value in)

Costs - Time and effort expended

Unpleasant or painful feelings

Depreciation (using up) of equipment

Losses:

Projects invested in but not completed

Failed efforts, losses

Net Profit (Happiness units)

Investments

Equipment

Emotional/Psychological Bank account

ARE YOU IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE REAL WORLD?

We wish people would provide for us, rescue us, provide love to us, but we cannot control that (public relations function and marketing, product quality )

The world/"universe" is neutral, not fair.

So, the reality is that it is up to us to make things happen (there are no victims or passive poor-doers allowed - we can't afford them.

ARE YOU FOLLOING THE ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES AND "LAWS"

(how things work)

Pick the activity with the highest return per unit of cost (The 80/20 Principle)

Law of diminishing returns - The first parts are usually higher return, then...

DO YOU KNOW "THE WORKERS"? (lower brains) - how they work and how to work them!

Educate/Train them so more productive

Learning curve

Responsibility, not fault (See No Fault)

Pay them enough

Don't get paid for non work time, or goofing off

Not entitled

But they must have rewards, needs met

Hold them accountable for producing

Be sure they are safe

Treat them right, not overwork them

Know how they function, motives, rewards, penalties

ARE YOU USING TIME EFFICIENTLY (OR SQUANDERING IT)?

These are necessary to run things and for "the workers" to follow for least effort and cost:

Procedures, systems, checklists

What works the best

Train in them

Do consistently

Follow the procedure always (can't just vary it

and not expect a cost or loss in productivity)

SHOULD YOU FIRE YOUR MANAGEMENT?

Measure, see how things are doing, adjust

Direct the workers

Increase the ability, skill to manage life

HOW HAPPY ARE YOUR CUSTOMERS?

Give them what they (the primitive brain system, mostly) want. (But ethically be sure that you are not giving them something that is harmful.

Educate the "customer" so it is a smarter consumer (also true in politics).

First read Me As A Corporation - An Overview Introduction.

Then scan this page.

Then read:

Economics - The Philosophy: "The Maximization Of Units Of Satisfaction" and The Economics Of Life - Spend Your "Gold" Well, For Value, Or Keep Squandering It,

Then set it up so that you repair and upgrade each of the pieces of life, setting tickles for action to complete those! Give it super high priority!

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The United States Is Like A Corporation

However, it is borrowing without realizing that later generations will have to pay the bill. We fail to see that interest costs could, soon, rise to 1/3 of the budget. Medicare and Social Security will be about 40% of the budget - and rising. Defense is solidly in there at about 15%. Then we've got to run welfare and other government functions on what is left over. It's not hard to see there is a problem. (Duh!) But nobody wants to bite the bullet and be blamed for pushing to balance the budget.

While today's younger generations will suffer somewhat, we fortunately have the momentum and good structure to get by for two or three generations with severe deterioration.

While people see that as unnecessarily negative, it can be objectively determined by looking at each of the indicators and applying them as we would to a corporation.

US AS A CORPORATION

The "profit" is net benefits to its citizens.

Fiscal integrity

Must be able to pay its debts

But it can "take" more from shareholders

(tax) but without clear accounting

Pension and Medical funds are "illegally" highly underfunded (corporations not allowed to do that)

Provides services of value

Some that cannot be provided elsewhere

Often poor management, lack of accountability

Shareholders, by virtue of residence or citizenship

Often not educated in the corporation's affairs

Often seek good only for their own interests or

unduly favor some

Management

Top job changed fairly often

Often not qualitified, picked by popularity

and public relations and marketing

Must lead toward beneficial objectives

Must negotiate well and persuade

Board Of Directors

Two Boards - Senate, House

Two different advocacy groups

Problem, some of the management obscure that they are not doing what is right and they lobby to please those who vote them in. Often untrained in the issues and facts.