She’s got the Whole World... in Her Hands
Why Women - Leading In Business
John R Fergusson
Monopolies are very hard to break once they are formed. It is a fact that in most cultures, patriarchal dominance is a very powerful monopoly that auto-dictates the business culture of society. Its natural spontaneous authoritarian defence of itself as the stronger leading/conquering gender is the precursor to battle between the sexes, not just in this area of business of course, but in a variety of areas.
There’s been however, a huge shift in the paradigm that is forcibly chasing down this monopoly and slowly breaking it up. This began in the 1940’s/50’s in the West when governments and industry, hungry to increase workforce numbers post World War 2, began to encourage women into the workforce in droves, to stay beyond marriage and to continue in it regardless of having children.
This really marked the beginning of the end for male domination, control and ownership of business, its leadership and government. Until then, women really only had three significant choices to enter the workforce which was generally seen to be a very short period of their lives, or more of an interlude leading to abandonment once entering marriage and having a family. Upon entering high school girls were virtually given three options. Take a “Homemaking course”, a “Secretarial/bookkeeping course”, or a “Professional course” e.g. nursing, teaching etc.
The industrial businesses not only needed factory workers back then for which thousands of women were seconded, but also needed many more permanent workers due to an ever increasing demand for the burgeoning commercial and professional hospitality and developing services industries, including travel of the masses being made available by huge ships of the sea and air, and the high-tech age as we know it today, had barely even begun.
So really, it is only a matter of time before we see the averages change and the balance of dominance, control and ownership blend into a new professional amalgam. Time will show this amalgam is not based on gender but on intelligence, expertise, ability and capability, including but not relying on nor necessarily tied to gender driven education. In other words, it is not knowledge driven as much as it is nature driven, due to the fact 50% or more of the workforce is now women, brought in by the greed-need of men.
Once this immense worldwide shakeup of the sexes calms down as its force moves into third world countries, the new gold of the neo-human professional expert will be seen in the base of the pannier’s control pan and no one will care what gender it is.
One of the reasons knowledge has increased so rapidly throughout this past fifty or sixty years or more is directly due to the millions of women entering the paid workforce in all areas of business and development, initiatives and processes, including education and the long-term higher learning portals of the sciences, technologies, humanities, resources and utilities.
The categorisation and commercialisation of the “housewife” and her “housework” was seized upon and developed by the marketers out of the industrial revolution in order to sell their “new inventions” they were making for the millions of “homes”, because electricity was making it possible to “give them more leisure time by making life/things simpler and easier just by purchasing them”. Ha! Ha! It would also enable the women to enter and stay in the workforce because of all these time and energy saving gadgets and widgets we were told.
In the same way, the marketing behind the technology behind the social media is proclaiming the same virtues, as a necessary asset for business, your profession and your daily communication to the important people in your life and business, no matter where you are in the world. This is also causing another major shift (in fact several major shifts), in the business paradigm.
Primary Shifts
Not only are some still coming to terms with women in the forefront of business, but we all are already facing the new phenomena technology has created for us and these I will put in order of first appearance. I am only covering the first one which is “gender”. But, there are five major shifts that are taking place even as we speak, which means the business paradigm, order and culture of doing business due to technology, will never be the same again. I call them “Primary Shifts” because all of them spawn further related changes that set a whole new meaning to the cliché that, “all things are subject to change”!
They are:
1. Business is now “Genderless”. It is neither male nor female dominated.
2. Business is now “Timeless”. It is no longer 9-5. It is now 24/7
3. Business is now “Borderless”. It is neither national nor international. Big Business is the “new world power” that all governments and their police forces are beginning to serve.
4. Business is now “Placeless”. It is universal i.e. I can conduct business in/at/from any location.
5. Business is now “Ageless”. As in human age. It allows all ages due to the 4 above, with the practice of “seniority” as in “inline positioning” and “retirement age” both now relics of the past (although still relevant to physical labour where robotics has not yet replaced it).
These are all defining changes in our human history as our species covers the earth. This of course is creating huge demands for new inspiration, invention and innovation from us, as we squeeze into ever decreasing circles the total species (not just us humans) of the world we cohabit with and with whom we grudgingly share the premium space. We fail to recognise that it is we, the human species that has become the fastest growing genus on planet earth. And to do that we have had to steal off all of the other “earth kinds” their land and seas, food, habitats and freedoms in order to make room for ourselves. We have done this by excluding or destroying them, in order to plunder their provisions and space, plus all of their natural related wealth to suit ourselves and our own preoccupation for human monopolisation.
The battle for business by women is the same battle we all face when monopolies have control and operate with impunity. What most of us don’t understand is that the very process or game we all believe in, that we are all called to play and participate in, that is supposed to prevent monopolies from happening or developing, is the very causal power and means that creates them. What is this power? It is the “Power of Competition”!
The Competition Watchdog the “ACCC”(click to view), has been set up in order to produce monopolies due to its emphasis on competition. It states on its own website: “We are Australia’s competition regulator and national consumer law champion. We promote competition and fair trading and regulate national infrastructure to make markets work for everyone.” They are not here to prevent monopolies! They are here to promote competition which produces monopolies, but in a fair and regulated way we are assured.
Competition is also the fallacy of democracy. It is even worse when you let people think they are living in a democracy when they are not. For example I heard Dick Cheney (past Bush government as Vice President of the USA) say to Larry King just this February on the Larry King “PoliticKing” show on RT state emphatically that “America is not a Democracy” and never has been. It is a “Republic”, he said! How come the majority of Americans don’t know that? How come this “Republic” is spending billions to try and force democracy on other nations of the world when it isn’t one itself? The answer is quite simple. It is called “Competition”! In the end, out of every democratic competition there is only one winner – the plutocrat, the autocrat, the dictator! Everyone else is a loser. Competition always creates one winner and vast numbers of losers as we are seeing and experiencing in Europe, the United States of America and everywhere else in the East and West. The main feature democratic leadership offers everyone is the freedom to lose, due to its competitive nature. Competition is never fair and cannot be, as nature so clearly demonstrates. All “Winners”, all “Supremos”, all those in “First Place” positions, all “Conquerors” love competition but only because they are “Number 1”. Ask all the losers what they think of competition – you’ll be amazed – even astounded, at the variety of reasons coupled often with vitriolic emotion as they share with you, and share their opinion of what is/was wrong with it!
We’ve also been taught to blame ourselves for not winning when there can only be one winner. How foolish is that! This is how much everyone is conned by this concept and this concept governs modern civilisation. The battle between the weak and the strong can never be waged by the same rules. The strong will kill and gobble up the weak every time all the time, if they are made to compete or fight by the same rules.
The first thing every woman in business must do is throw away the rule book written by the strong in favour of the strong in order to knock out the weak every time all the time. Darwin’s “Survival of the Fittest/Strongest” only works if intellect, intelligence and wit are excluded in the rule book. “Brains versus Braun” can never play by the same rules, or vv. Where intellect, intelligence and wit are used in the game, the so called lesser gods not only survive – they flourish! Only the strong demand we all play by the same rules knowing the weak won’t be able to win by doing so. Read the following article by Despina Melas, our GM. She covers this aspect exceptionally well! You cannot play or compete by the same rules – forget the competition you surely don’t need it – not even slightly! Cut out and remove the power that creates monopolies!
Over millennia, history shows monopolies of large scale, where the balance of power consistently falls to the same one entity, always leads to slavery and the elimination of the very competition they used to get themselves there. Competition is strongly promoted until a monopoly appears after which it is no longer required and gets eliminated. We see the effects of monopoly in North Korea. But don’t be deceived, a two party system is also a monopoly! It is the “one coin”! The heads & tails of the one entity that gets tossed by the citizens every so many years called a vote. Heads I win - Tails you win? And little if anything changes. To make any monopoly work you must have an opposition to beat up and rouse on! North Korea use South Korea and vv. Again let me stress, competition does not prevent monopolies, it promotes and establishes them. To understand this we need to look briefly at the nature of competition.
All competitions have one purpose and goal and that is to produce or find the number one person, team, entity etc. i.e. the first place in or over everything, or everyone else. It is called the “Monopoliser Effect”. The Monopoliser (the winner), sets the pace, dictates to all the followers, gets all the accolades, controls the media, gets all the endorsement promo dollars from big business, becomes an instant celebrity by default etc., etc. There can only be one winner so second and third place positions are simply support positions for first place in order to take the focus off the first place monopoly to further endorse competition. History shows that if there are no second and third place awards, the desire to compete dwindles dramatically due to the negative effect “winner takes all” produces, and where there is little or no competition, monopolies cannot develop. No one can be the winner, take first place, be number one; neither can they eliminate the competition if there isn’t one. Therefore competition must be created so that the people can choose their preferred monopoly, which often has nothing to do with merit, intelligence, knowledge or skill, but controlled by law, regulation and establishments rules of engagement.
All competition is developed for the purpose of elimination. We are told by the ACCC the competition between Woolworths and Coles is healthy, but it is not! How did they become so big? Through the power of competition, eliminating competitors! Their goal is for one to eliminate the other by opposing each other in perpetuity as one duopoly. It is the same with Myers and David Jones. The one is trying to eliminate the other – a duopoly of market share. So you see, soon we will have two more monopolies to break up due to the nature of competition eliminating each and all until there is a final winner/monopoliser! This is the defining battle between the demands of the East (now led by China) and the demands of the West (still led by the US). The assurance of one emerging as the monopoliser is the competition between East and West. This is also why we have “left wing” and “right wing” factions in each political party. Plus more money (wealth) is made out of competition by the rich and powerful than all the manufacturing in the world put together. It is all bets on, which is how the “banking world” and the “Wall Street’s” of this world all make their wealth. Compete to see, predict, who wins who loses so we can trade (bet)! Winners/Controllers enhance their winnings by rules and regulations for the purpose of handicapping all the losers (people not “in the know”), which is what men have done to women for centuries.
Excel! Don’t Compete!
Ladies, if you are making anyone or anything, any man or any business your competitor or you think or believe you are competing with them, you shouldn’t be in business, as you won’t last the race to monopolisation. Remember there can only be one winner. So stop competing and start excelling. Stop managing and trying to correct the past and start leading and creating the future! Stop correcting and start creating! You are not a competitor, neither are you in a race. And if someone sets up a competition or a race, who says you have to participate! You now know their only purpose is to ensure they take first place and have you eliminated. So don’t even give them the time of day or waste your time saying good morning to them, they are not your team. They are trying to eliminate you – you must not give them that chance so don’t play their game!
Do not compete with men on their terms, nor listen to their nonsense that you must play by the same rules they used to get where they are if you want to be a CEO, Chairman of the Board, Executive Chairman, etc! They will keep finding ways to eliminate or disqualify you if you do! Men are the elephant in the room and most of them don’t know it and haven’t got a clue their leg is tied to the peg of their own making! Don’t let them peg you down!
The purpose of competition producing monopolies is to get you to work for nothing – to make you work harder – to make you work longer hours – and do it for much less money. A dear friend said to me the other day, “I have never in my life worked so hard for so long for so little as I have in these past 20 years”! This is the direct result of competition monopolising the workforce. People are competing for a prize today that has little or no value. They are being compelled to run in a competitive race for business that is leaving them destitute financially, morally and ethically.
We are being told we have to compete with China and to do that we must work harder and longer for less. Why? In China, India, Philippines and other Asian countries the giant monopolies there still use their women as slave labour, and their children too, and we are being told we must compete with them! Oh yeah! So you see, competition is the tool used by those in control to develop and build monopolies which become dictatorships in business which the West has slowly been coming out of (thanks mostly to you our women), but is now facing a major push to bring us all this time, not just women, under the monopolising pump of global contemporary neo-feudalism. Let’s all keep up the resistance! We all must excel, but not compete.
I wish to finish by quoting John Robb, Jim Rickards and Mark Faber, three of the speakers at World War D conference held this past week (early 2015) in Melbourne:
‘The problem is we’re in a zero trust or low trust world. We’ve seen more and more states climbing into this police state overwatch,‘ answered John Robb.
The thing about liberty, observed Jim Rickards, is that once you notice it slipping away, those that have taken it won’t give it back. ‘If you pass enough laws everyone is a criminal. This is modern neo-Fascism, and it’s coming your way,‘ he added, to applause from the audience.
Mark Faber ended by noting that those who benefit most from regulation are established corporate players, at the expense of small business and individuals. Large corporations can afford to keep teams of expensive lawyers on staff, allowing them to minimise their own taxes and twist regulation in their favour in ways that their start-up rivals can’t. ‘The corporate establishment love regulation because it keeps the opposition away‘, he said.
©John R Fergusson