My Nature vs. Nurture article. To me? Nature plays a part but Nurture plays a role that is misunderstood. If you imagine a video game reference, it’s like drafting a random player in Madden or 2K’s MyPlayer mode, and developing “that player” as the centerpiece to a 20 year dynasty (mode in sports video game where you play owner and run a player through a simulation of 20 years, so this year it would be 2018 to 2038). Even in those video games, ‘Developing’ being the key issue.

Development is the result of your environment. Whatever you define to be you, and whatever you, define to be environment. The magical variable missing from this equation is time. So you have ‘whatever’ affecting ‘whatever’s’ evolution over the course of ‘whatever’ (the system, the individuals, time). You can literally take this statement and analyze any time-series event, with that mentality, by really focus in on defining what potential means and then how to extract the max potential from a system. This speaks to whatever manufacturing companies do and now do so well – modern day manufacturing firms have adopted the mantra to optimize and & all productivity measures to increase their total throughput. Modern corps focus just as much on improving what they already do compared to doing new things. This type of progress, between pursing new ventures & optimizing existing ones, is completely a result of the required knowledge and financial capital control, that is available for a firm to perform their service for the market. I love learning about the concept of control. Control is desire, control is ego – however, in the corporate world, mixing control and transparency can create a powerful monster. Control is having the ability to do something without having any preconceived biases, since they’ve been disproven by daya. Control is also knowing how long it will take you to successfully do something. How to get an item from State ABC to State XYZ, it is all about really understanding your environment and how to get your environment to work for you. This type of mentality should persist in people across all different industries, societies and regions – the simple belief structure that:

If you have a goal Plan for that goal Try that goal If you don’t succeed Adjust and try again Try again

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If you evolve, you learn and you understand, your goals, customer & one self better. Corporations do this exact analysis but control is only possible through some kind of quality management system. When I say QMS, I mean that you’ve been born (as a business) now just continue to understand your market and how to best serve it and you’ll survive (hopefully thrive). Very often this kind corporate ego can ultimately bring about a businesses downfall and that will likely be the result of losing track of your quality and corporate control.

This is ultimately where I think government is at, in terms of the state of their QMS. They say they focus on the customer, but do they really? What kind of value-add does another lawyer bring to a political party? Canadians have to know about a concept called “law of diminishing returns”. It means you can have too much of one thing, especially in the current government system we have right now. It is one that is not led by metrics, KPI, or other tangible measures of progress. I believe the ultimate downfall of politics is just ever present in the nurturing system of the day. Nurture is supposed to mean that we have systems and processes that overlay synergistically on top of one and another and I don’t believe that they presently do. Our processes are broken and our systems a mess. Throwing money at a problem is better, easier and faster than taking the time, learning about the problem, and making it actually go away.

I fear in due time, people from across the world, especially the most vulnerable, will be put in sticky situations, and they will not survive. The beauty about control is that when you don’t have any, you’re essentially useless. Everyone understands or at least, will understand, the concept of the rational consumer. I’ve heard a lot of people say rationality is the basis of making a good decision and markets very often act rationally – this is one of the beliefs so many people entrust the free market. Rationality is a good thing because it assumes consistency. It assumes that, if a user, is at a process step, and is under similar conditions, it assumes that the user will make the same decision. This is the raison d’etre of consumer marketing, by those skilled in the 5Ps and 8Ms, to turn rationality on its side and to be able to describe an experience so vivid, that you don’t mind the 50% premium – that’s okay especially when without the sales pitch, you wouldn’t have had the desire to want and having stuff is nice. This is the definition of the marketing pitch.

When a system is rigged (politics) start asking why. These politicians of today, I especially fear because they act irrationally and it’s because they’re put in extenuating circumstances. Ahh yes, “extenuating circumstances” – the ever-appropriate 2 word euphemism that’s paid for more law school degrees than the concept of the bar mitzvah. When incomplete knowledge is at hand, bad decisions are made at an ever increasingly pace. This is current climate in the modern day politics, mistakes are lesser in the corporate world. In my last week’s article, I touched on this. One incident can change how companies function, this is due to an ever increasingly used corporate feedback processes. Companies are learning from their mistakes at a higher rate and consequently implementing lean industry led processes. All the while government is sitting on the sidelines. Government is not private industry because government does not play in the same environment. Again, control is all about the current level of quality you can provide and that is based on your environment. If you do not play in the same environment, unless forced onto you from above, you will not be able to deliver the same level of services. What’s ironic is that government always claims to be ethical and always pursuing the public interest but this is the exact brush private industry is painted with. The thing about private industry is that if I’m treated unfairly, I can always switch companies and spend my life at an organization that cares for its employees. One of the primary motivators for private companies to create a fair and equitable working environment – but this internal environment goes hand in hand with corporate learning. As corporations learn and spread best practices, this is only due to greater communication skills between internal business units. Everybody working proactively and continuing to achieve a corporate culture of universal nurturing. For this reason, Nurture versus Nature is not even an argument to me, it is a discussion. Nature always gives certain people a head start but the environment is what allows people to do great things.

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