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"Compassion is for free,
envy has to be earned."

(Robert Lembke)

The last column might have evoked the opinion that success is just a personal matter and that an individual could be successful just through and by his own. That's not the case. A look at the arenas of this world shows that an artist can not be successful without public, whose applause, protest or disinterest judges about the artist's achievement or failure. The public is not only important as a judge. The presence of the public motivates the artist to deliver top performance. The speaker, who trains his speech in front of the mirror at home, discloses his full power in the very moment when he speaks to his auditorium.

Success communicates via the appreciation shown by others. Appreciation is paid in lots of currencies: Praise, envy, applause, gratitude and last but not least money. Money is an outstanding format to express appreciation in our economy, however, it's not the only and not the most important  one. Many employees think they work for money and they are mistaken:

Just imagine a car factory made of glass. All employees involved in the production process, from the engineers down to the workers at the belt, observe how each single car get assembled step by step, get a final polish at the quality check and the end of the belt and then - is directly pushed in the junk press. Each of the involved person receives his pay check (and it's good money!)  in time at the month's end. How long do you think those people can cope with the fact, that there is no meaningful usage of their work's result? The payments won't keep them away from frustration and depression, from quitting internally or externally. In that case the wage loses its appreciating character; it turns into charity and humiliates the employees.

Therefore, people don't work for money but for the appreciation behind.

(to be continued)

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"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
                             Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
 

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