In Part 1, I implied that if you have skills and gain trust through your skills, your worth increases and brings in the monies, and if not, you may become worthless. In general, it means the skills are worthless if there is not an associated trust with it. Let me now take that one notch up.
We all say marketing is 90% hype. So with a kind of marketing that may not be closer to the truth about the product, the product may last lot less than its expected life-cycle, if it fails to meet the expectations set by the marketing hype. Even if you are good at marketing (a skill), without the required trust through the product, the product becomes worthless and the company too – pretty soon.
One more notch up. The company trusts its training methods to produce the best skilled workers internally. However, if it fails to imbibe trust in the trainees that company will look after them during a rough ride, the staff attrition rates jump and the monies invested to produce those skilled workers become a loss.
How about going up the ladder to get a view from the top? You could be a skillful politician and a veteran at the game, but the trust factor becomes increasingly a non-factor at the highest level or the trust may last only for a short time with a very limited number of people. Does it sound like having a political clout?
What do you do then when you do become a politician and you know that the trust that you have gained is for sure going to be either a non-factor or has a very short life. You have to make the best use of a short window or throw the trust factor out of the window to keep politicking.
May I then dare to say skills minus trust is equivalent to becoming a politician? Since skill minus trust imply that your contributions are worthless, therefore what politicians do are worthless? Or making it generic, can I say anyone who cannot be trusted, no matter what kind of skills the person has got is therefore worthless and the only job that may suit is becoming a politician?
I am not sure whether this argument buys me enough buy-ins to lean towards a notion that a nation without a political system or with a weak political system enables a faster nation building than otherwise.