The prophylactic employee…
… he will take care of himself before joining any company.
The era of knowledge brought endless possibilities for those who want to take advantage of them, now employees are the owners of the most important capital, their minds, and therefore, free, free to choose, with whom to work, with whom to relate, with who to marry, which religious group to belong to, what music you want to listen to, etc.
This has opened the range of possibilities and alternatives for intellectual employees, it is not necessarily going to be forever working for the same company, in fact, most likely, your work has no borders and that your office is not among four conventional walls. Faced with this avalanche of alternatives, people choose who to work for, assess whether it matches their wishes, their values and a set of internal mechanisms.
If the life of the knowledge worker were a highway, and he, a vehicle that uses knowledge as fuel, surely he would be related to the companies that are like service stations, who will provide him with the knowledge to be able to circulate freely on the road, not only from the profession, but from life.
….. will protect your source of value.
If we say that the value of a person comes from his knowledge, the prophylactic employee will take care of his source of value with a sword and sword, since he recognizes that battles take place in the market, but war is of the minds. And the important thing is not to win a battle, but to win the war. Al Ries, the marketing specialist, said that his objective was to achieve a position in the customer's mind
For this reason, it will constantly seek to increase the arsenal of knowledge. In fact, the conclusions show this: over a hundred years ago a skill was learned and it was for life, thirty years ago one was learned per year, now a new skill is learned per week, per day, at all times you search this. Doing two university degrees, or more, is not nonsense today, doing an MBA was important and desired, now it is normal, you can choose via the Internet, compare offers, places or do it from home online.
… he will be more promiscuous when taking out, and more careful than ever when putting.
In this aspect, the prophylactic employee will be promiscuous with what enters his mind, he will try to incorporate as much knowledge as possible, but he will be more prophylactic than ever for the deposit of knowledge, he will not give it to anyone, he will take care of it and value it as water in the desert.
The finished products are all similar, the companies copy in a few weeks the models that are successful. Due to the speed of the markets, the launch cycles are short and adapted to the needs of the specific client. Two years was the time it took eight years ago to bring a new car model to market, now in Japan if you want a Toyota, order it via Internet on Monday with the modifications you want and by Friday you will be driving it.
Like cars, in other products, 70% of the value comes from the intangible. The components, the systems, the parts, can be copied exactly the same, what cannot be copied is the knowledge of the people, this is what generates value and the greatest competitive advantage that organizations have.
Knowledge will be so vital that prophylactic employees will have many mistresses to put their capital into, and perhaps never marry any. Unless the company is the ideal girlfriend who provides eternal love (new and constant knowledge).
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