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libraryofcirclaria · 11 months ago

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The John Waysworth Scandal

Remikra, 1264 to 1308

Canticula, 1267 to 1287

Deep-Trade: Definition

Deep-trade is the spellfire practice of assigning special tradestones to represent certain shares of certain assets of value for a particular business. Licensed spellcrafters can "explode" deep-trade stones in order to produce currency or items of value equal to the value the said stones represent. However, since this is an end-use and there are far more tradestones than licensed spellcrafters available to engage them in a timely fashion, it is a more economic practice for a stoneholder to purchase a tradestone at a particular value, then sell it whenever it increases in value, in order to make a profit.

Retun and Prove: Established Relations

In 1285, a trade arrangement signed between the Lykian and Retunian Republics split the Galapolgis Island of Vantacula between the two nations and allowed private businesses to establish themselves here. Legally, all of Vantacula was under Lykian jurisdiction, but the Lykians had decided through the trade deal to lease the Western half of the Isle to the Retunians. Thus, Retunian businesses, primarily deep-trade firms, were allowed to open alongside similar Lykian businesses. Furthermore, a mutual agreement in the trade deal exempted deep-trade transactions between Lykian and Retunian businesses from tariffs or taxation. There was no deep-trade arrangement yet between the two nations, politically speaking, although there was the potential for such an arrangement to materialize in the future, sparking excitement among investors across both nations. In the meantime, deep-trade transactions were facilitated as John Waysworth, a prominent representative of the Bucksworth Financial Institute, headquartered in Hasphitat, established a branch office in Vantacula.

In November 1285, the National Bank for the Lykian Trust, or NBLT, extended an invitation to John Waysworth to establish a Provan chapter for the Bucksworth Institute Tradestone Commission in a high-value office space in the city of Prove proper.

John Waysworth in Prove

John Waysworth accepted the invitation and established the Provan chapter in January 1286. Before long, he began selling valuable deep-trade stones to Lykian banks and businesses, and using the proceeds from this to purchase Lykian deep-trade stones to sell to Retunian tradestone markets. Net proceeds from all of this paid into lucrative dividends, particularly for Waysworth as well as Bucksworth shareholders back in Remikra.

On November 10, 1286, John Waysworth's office in Prove was sacked by Lykian officials, who conducted a thorough search of the premise and arrested John Waysworth, himself. Waysworth was charged with fraud and espionage, and faced a possible death sentence. Retunian Prime Minister Arthur Cummings had just returned from a Summit in Vantacula with Lykian President Restara Unjoy when he was informed of this. Immediately, Prime Minister Cummings sent his best known lawyers to defend John Waysworth in the Lykian court proceedings, an approach that succeeded in convincing the Lykian Justice System to reduce Waysworth's sentence to deportation. On November 14, John Waysworth was taken to a holding cell at a border crossing between the Lykian Republic and the nation of Umcings, where he would wait until a Retunian air reconnaissance unit came to pick him up.

John Waysworth was not informed on when the reconnaissance unit would come. So he decided to escape custody and flee into the surrounding countryside. The issue here was that the border crossing was located in the highlands of the Chokian Mountains, where the climate was cold, snowy, and harsh. Furthermore, the landscape was filled with dangerous wildlife animals such as bears, wolves, and predatory wysps. Supposedly, John Waysworth escaped a close encounter with a bear on the first night, and a close encounter with a wysp on the second night. Finally though, on November 16, an air rescue reinforcement team launched by Cummings upon news of Waysworth's escape assisted the original reconnaissance unit, and spotted John Waysworth. They rescued him and flew him back to Remikra.

The Lykian War

Lykian President Restara Unjoy condemned the so-called Waysworth Scandal, holding the Retunian government responsible. As it turned out, Lykian authorities received a tip that John Waysworth had been selling stagmarcated tradestones, or tradestones worth almost no value being sold to unknowing clients for a falsely high value, hence the reason for the sacking of John Waysworth's office in Prove on November 10. And when they searched the premise, Lykian officials had spellcrafters "explode" three of John Waysworth's tradestones, which turned out to be duds.

How did the Lykian authorities find out about John Waysworth's scandal in the first place? During the Summit between Prime Minister Cummings and President Unjoy, which took place on November 6, Prime Minister Cummings sent a letter to President Unjoy asking for her and her family to join in on the Scandal. The issue with this approach was that the NBLT, the primary bank victimized by the Waysworth Scandal, was the very institute in which the Unjoy family had deep stakes. The Retunian public in years to come would condemn Prime Minister Cummings not only for taking part in the Waysworth Scandal, but also for his daft judgement behind writing the letter to President Unjoy. Needless to say, the Retunian Prime Minister's decision at the Summit made absolutely no strategic sense.

Regardless, President Unjoy, on December 24, 1286, issued executive orders freezing all trade relations with the Retunian Republic and revoking the lease in Vantacula. Subsequently, she ordered Retunian authorities to evacuate all Retunian civilians and businesses off the Isle. However, Retunian authorities refused such orders and called on Prime Minister Cummings, who more than obliged to send in Retunian Marine and Army forces to defend the Retunian settlers from local pro-Lykian partisans consisting mostly of Vantaculan natives. While doing this, Prime Minister Cummings news of the hostility from Lykian leadership be withheld from the Retunian public, as well as informed the Retunian Department of Defense of a "possible local partisan terrorist threat."

In short, Cummings aimed to preserve the newly-gained status quo by defying orders from the Lykian government while trying to prevent the Retunian public from becoming aware of possible Lykian hostility.

Between January 2 and January 23, 1287, Retunian and partisan forces engaged in numerous skirmishes. On January 24, the Lykian Navy arrived, engaging with Retunian forces in a heavy battle across the Isle, another development that Prime Minister Cummings prevented from being disclosed to the Retunian public. Between February 4 and 5, Cummings sent the Retunian Navy, which succeeded in driving all Lykian forces off of Vantacula. Cummings then summoned the Lykians to an "emergency counsel" in order to negotiate peace and territorial concessions, an invitation to which the Lykians responded with cold silence.

On February 6, 1287, President Unjoy ordered high-flying Lykian aircraft to drop Red Desert bombs upon South Masonia, Hasphitat, and the Basin District of Retun proper. Each of those targeted cities was devastated by the attack as the entire Retunian population went into panic. President Unjoy gave a second order for Prime Minister Cummings to surrender all of Vantacula.

Prime Minister Cummings refused to comply to this. Between February 7 and 16, 1287, the Lykian Navy renewed its assault upon Vantacula and attempted to take it by force. The Retunians held their ground; and on February 15, Prime Minister Cummings ordered an airstrike on the Lykian base in Gyrosak responsible for the Vantacula initiative.

On February 16, 1287, President Unjoy responded with Red Desert bomb attacks on Egdir and Retun. Later that evening, in the wake of these events, particularly with the city of Retun proper being struck by two Red Desert bomb attacks, Prime Minister Cummings signed a mutual cease-fire with the Lykian Republic. On February 17, the island-nation of Rakara, allied to the Lykian Republic, facilitated the signing of a Treaty by the Retunians to surrender not just Vantacula, but most of the Galapolgis Isles to the Lykian Republic. The consolation here was that the Retunian Republic was allowed to keep the five Westernmost Isles.

Thus, the war was over.

Fallout

Retunian businesses lost many of their trade posts. Roughly seventy-five percent of the Retunian trade network around the Circlarian Ocean would eventually be recovered; although the apex of Retunian trade achieved in the early-to-mid-1280s would never be achieved again.

The Retunian population would lose trust not only in Prime Minister Cummings and his Administration, but also the Retunian establishment as a whole. The public was outraged at the John Waysworth Scandal and the gag orders given by Cummings to hide from the public the truth about the Lykian War. A group of Representatives in Retunian Council filed a motion to have Prime Minister Cummings impeached.

In the midst of all this, however, emerged a significant question: Why did Prime Minister Cummings explicitly tell President Unjoy about the John Waysworth Scandal? Speculation arose from this, because in 1285, Cummings and Waysworth had become involved in a conflict of interest over a revised tax code. During that brief exchange of civil hostility, Waysworth vowed to have his firm reduce funding to Prime Minister Cummings' prospective 1290 re-election campaign. This led to speculation over whether or not Cummings' reveal of John Waysworth to President Unjoy was, in fact, a form of retaliation. However, there was no hard evidence to back up this theory.

A major revelation came in the year 1359 with the discovery of a letter to Arthur Cummings from his mother, who lived until the year 1302. It was dated March 10, 1286, months before the Summit in Vantacula. And that letter contained advice from his mother for Cummings to invite President Unjoy to partake in the "lucrative business arrangement" involving John Waysworth.

Scholars initially rejected the so-called "ridiculous and completely ludicrous notion that an elected public official would act on the whimsical advice of a personal family member in this way." However, there are quite a few factors now known about Arthur Cummings. First was that he was known to take advice from his mother without question, even in matters where his mother, though undoubtedly well-intentioned, was not well-versed. Also, Cummings was raised in a very affluent socioeconomic environment; and though he was good at the practice of business, particularly in banking, he did not ace his college courses in history and political science. All of these factors in combination led Arthur Cummings to become extremely, and even dangerously, complacent when it came to making serious decisions like those in a public office.

The impeachment motion against Arthur Cummings in 1287 never made it past a vote in the Retunian House of Representatives. Cummings would encounter another impeachment motion against him in 1295, but that failed as well. However, Cummings would lose the 1296 election against the Progressive candidate, John "Red" Waltmann.

John Waysworth, meanwhile, announced an early retirement in December 1286 and moved to the Mid-Westerlies, where he would remain until his death in 1310.

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oracle-global · 1 year ago

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ailtrahq · 1 year ago

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harbourfronttechnologies · 1 year ago

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How to Balance a Balance Sheet

A balance sheet is a financial statement that presents a snapshot of a company's financial position at a specific moment. It has three main components: assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity. Assets represent what the company owns, liabilities represent its obligations, and shareholders' equity represents the residual interest of shareholders in the company's assets after deducting liabilities.

At the end of each financial period, companies prepare the balance sheet, which follows the accounting equation. Essentially, the sum of all assets should be equal to the sum of total liabilities and shareholders' equity. If it doesn't, companies must balance the balance sheet.

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Conclusion

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the-firebird69 · 2 years ago

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Couple other companies that we're getting signed over to us other than plastics and we were working on them that are being signed over some of them and the heavy equipment companies there are some hospitals too and we should mention those and some retailers kick them out quick hopefully

John Deere there's a huge company and they make giant trucks and giant tractors and gigantic equipment up to 10 miles and we're actually helping to make those as they stopped and they need them to go down there in huge ones too and they're heavily armored and we make the engines and those engines. We acquired it this morning and the final agreements were all signed and we decided to make all sorts of things go and that's for farming pretty huge amount of land that needs to be tilled and was sending the tractors out as soon as we build them and we're managing them and we're starting to farm and we're doing it right of course it's a humongous industry and it would fail if we didn't do this now we have about 600,000 tractors that are built and they're going out today and we're going to start tilling almost immediately if we have interference we will apprehend them immediately or stop them using absolute Force just as they see out here being used.

*Case tractor is a gigantic company second only to Caterpillar globally is 40% of the heavy equipment industry unlike John Deere which has about 15%. This company rocks it is gigantic and we are now in control and we are building and building fast and accepting orders even from Mac as he wants to make heavy tanks and heavy trucks for armor for war we're going to start making them for work and a lot of them mostly 10 miles and a giant number of them we need them now they're about 50 that were in production but we can pump out about 10 or 20 a day and we're going to start doing it and that's out of one plant and they're 20 plants they're starting up today

*rest of the companies are smaller but we're going to take them over and we thought we'd mention them one of them is komatsu and it's a giant giant company it's still about 20% of the industry and absorb the huge amount of it and yeah casein caterpillar about equal at 30%, but they make huge equipment and they've always made huge equipment they're really good at it and they're going to start up now we took it over if you did all the contracts and our building equipment

*it's a giant company Hiel, they make gigantic trucks regular trucks huge equipment and most of it is for transport no they build those huge wheels for mining and they still use them they're just bigger about a half mile big and they rip out tons of soil in minutes it strip behind all sorts of areas and you have to fill it back in nowadays but it's gigantic okay and it's probably only 10% of the industry or so but their equipment the second or none and it's German and really we took it over to Lock stock and barrel and we are in control of the company and we are the only shareholders who are chairman there's no other chairman but us our kind

*there's a few more companies we should mention and they are hospitals one is the Blue Cross Blue shield group and we signed over today they only have two remaining chair people and it's been and Mac it's about time and we handle the insurance end of it too.

*healthcare systems signing today they will have two chair people it's the same too it's a huge huge company between the two they're 35 to 40% of the industry and they produce their own hospital equipment too not all of it it's only about 20% that's outside of the hospital industry hospitals

*Aetna health Care and they're probably the remaining percentage except for a few small companies and it's signing today completely and it is a huge company this is a very big company they just have a lot of agents and they go all over the place it's kind of necessary and we don't mind it needs to be laid off because they don't really do anything and we're going to do that shortly

*just mentioned before some big retailers are signing today and the agreements Target Costco Sam's BJ's came up today and they agreed to come to the signing and it's still bja Walmart is not practically everyone else Marshall's JCPenney Macy's Sears are all signing over seriously the only one who wants two chair seats and that's been in back again ben and Mac. JCPenney 2 they want to have two chairs same people and along with them are other companies that were signing Craftsman and a lot of tool companies in a lot of small tool companies are signing over today Bostitch Makita and some big name ones that our son was using. It's a few other companies are pretty big they're signing all their agreements today one is worth mentioning

*IBM and it's the world's largest micro computer maker and supercomputer maker and also personal computer maker and tablets use both platforms Mac and they use Windows and we are reprogramming because their program is a disaster and we are making these computers right now tons of them

*Intel in celuron both of these companies are signing over today and their gigantic they're the largest chip manufacturers on Earth they make more chips than all silicon valley for 10 years in a row globally they're huge huge companies every day is probably $700 octillion chips and more is going to be made shortly

*Apple computer we're taking over today everybody is signing their agreement we only have two chairs that are going to remain it's the same guys they're both in on the Apple IBM deal in the beginning

There's several more companies and we're going to come back to it shortly but we should publish to get this out

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Wow how annoying he'll sit there trying to needle no matter what they're doing they expect something we keep telling them we're taking this we're taking that and they don't get it they still have way too many idiots

Hera

We're working on that and we will cut them down now

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skillstopallmedia · 2 years ago

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the Alliance at the crossroads of roads and shareholdings

Rebalancing of cross-shareholdings between Renault and Nissan The Alliance now seems to be placed under the sign of equality and the strategic autonomy of the two manufacturers Renault and Nissan. After years of tension, the two groups now want to rebalance the respective power of each within the Alliance. If until now Renault owned 43% of Nissan, Nissan only owned 15% of Renault. Eventually,…

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arun-pratap-singh · 2 years ago

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Nissan, Renault formally agree to make cross-shareholdings equal

KYODO NEWS – 13 minutes ago – 16:53 | All, Japan, World Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA said Monday they formally agreed to make their mutual cross-shareholdings equal at 15 percent. Under the agreement, the French company will reduce its 43.4 percent stake in the Japanese automaker while Nissan will maintain its current stake in its alliance partner. Related coverage: Nissan, Renault agree to…

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gbwhtspro · 2 years ago

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Automakers Renault and Nissan make cross-shareholdings equal at 15%

Nissan and Renault have changed their mutual cross-shareholdings equal at 15 per cent, ironing out a source of conflict in the Japan-French auto alliance. Renault Group will transfer 28.4 per cent of the Nissan shares it owns into a French trust, so its stake will be the same 15 per cent that Nissan Motor Co. has in the French automaker. Voting rights would be neutralized for most decisions,…

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hclygrailed · 2 years ago

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FULL NAME robyn freya lind AGE , D.O.B. thirty-nine, june 14th PLACE OF BIRTH montpelier, vermont. OCCUPATION political campaign manager, business shareholder EDUCATION bachelors in political science from columbia university GENDER, PRONOUNS cis woman, she / her ORIENTATION lesbian RELATIONSHIP STATUS chronically single.

POSITIVE TRAITS rational, intellectual, reliable, astute, sophisticated NEGATIVE TRAITS domineering, mercurial, obsessive, cynical, repressed.

BIOGRAPHY.

TW parental neglect / abuse, slight body horror mention

the threads that connect you to the earliest recollections of your childhood are mostly superimposed, but you remember morsels of the truth. you are but a babe, one who is subject to your birth mother’s advances the very moment you enter worldly fruition. bathed in her blood, she may not want you but you are hers and hers alone. but she was inept to care for a child when she was nearly one herself. so you become the one she will blame for her ruin. a child that would leave her young body ravaged and a stranger to herself. you would not see this woman again until your thirty-first birthday. rather you find yourself in the arms of another, an odd child bestowed upon an equally off-beat couple. you meet in footnote circumstances, unbeknownst to an empire with a singular piece missing – an heir. how strange to have everything but to be hollowed by a singular absence. the reason they wanted you for was — well, no one really knows exactly why. you were never bold enough, or maybe cruel enough to demand an answer. perhaps they felt they wanted a child because it was the last bastion to cross, the last fence in the orchard of adulthood. maybe they had simply seen a challenge, as it was so often their style, and launched headlong into it. they would approach child-rearing with the precision of mass reviews, as journalists do with great disasters, until it had the featherweight touch of a quantitative analysis: a rulebook to be followed to the letter.

they did all they were supposed to, adjusted you according to this litmus test. doctor visits, stellar extracurricular programs, language exchanges & debate clubs overseeing genovese lakes. they provided the bare essentials for this aluminum blueprint; anything superfluous, of course, would skew the results. you were the experiment they invested in, a uniform whole, rather than a sum of parts. if you judge it by any other name, the trial was a success. you had become the best version you could’ve ever been, all things considered. what if it was hollow, as all polished shells are? it was light enough to float. given the haphazard turns of your mind, the way it led itself to a fool’s gold chase that could’ve ruined you long ago — yes, given all these fatal flaws, your parents tempered as much as they could. you are not the first in line, but you are the first daughter, and god, isn’t that worse somehow? you are their sweet, golden bird. a cluster of feathers they smother in their palms. they chide and you are expected to fall in line – that you do. but sometimes when you’re alone with yourself, you begin to consider why you think of flight as an illness. why are you so afraid to simply take what you want? is what you’ve been given enough – is it too much?

the others follow you in quick succession and there is both sadness and elation in the notion that you are no longer alone in your loneliness. ( but isn’t that odd? isn’t it cruel? ) the answer still perturbs you but you do what you can stop the softness of childhoods from slipping as easily as yours had. you become a shoulder to cry upon or a hand to squeeze beneath the dinner table when father comes inquiring about your grades. it matters little how your mother’s eyes sharpen when you misstep during ballet recitals or how your father secludes you in the thing he calls love. you become everything except yourself. adapt to the needs of others and make yourself useful, maybe then someone could love you properly – without asking for everything in return. you carry the habit of giving too much of yourself onward into adulthood, no funeral held for it with the rest of the girlhood niceties you buried in the crawlspace between your bedroom and father’s study. in the meantime there are glimpses of want, of interest, but no true fulfillment of either. you show interest in bohemia early on, always a bit too eccentric for your parent’s taste so they push you in the opposite direction. you became theirs to command, because if you couldn’t will yourself to do as you pleased, you would allow them to mold you. they urged you to attend university so off to columbia you went. and perhaps for the first time in a very long time, there are peeks of who you are beneath that friendly, only slightly on edge expression of yours. you make yourself useful, earn a degree that would serve you well had you been inducted into the ranks of the family business. for once you had something of your own, and if it were merely a political sciences degree, then so be it.

getting your foot in the door means it’s no longer about what you know, but who you know, and as it turns out, maybe your pedigree isn’t so bad. father deems your occupation superfluous, that you could do more than your ill-defined, and frankly a bit foggy job. but you’re happy, even if your only reward is the satisfied looks you get from the old foxes when you’ve done well enough to keep them in political good-graces. they appreciated your curated coldness, that glacial calm, the luxury of a sublimely cut suit in a soul-crushing deposition. your parent’s contacts helped a lot, of course, but otherwise it was all you. there’s something better than the power sex gives you, and that’s ambition.

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libraryofcirclaria · 4 months ago

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The John Waysworth Scandal

Library of Circlaria

Blog Posts

Remikra, 1264 to 1308

Canticula, 1267 to 1287

Deep-Trade: Definition

Retun and Prove: Established Relations

John Waysworth in Prove

The Lykian War

Thus, the war was over.

Fallout

John Waysworth, meanwhile, announced an early retirement in December 1286 and moved to the Mid-Westerlies, where he would remain until his death in 1310.

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crones-trash · 2 years ago

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My teenage son is diabetic and recently we changed from Blue Cross to United Healthcare which we are enrolled in through my husband’s work. We recently got a bill for over $700 because it turns out the new insurance didn’t cover his blood work, AT ALL. We pay $1000 a month, plus co-pays for everything, and yet they don’t cover his blood tests to determine his A1C, cholesterol, etc. luckily they do cover most of his insulin, but we still pay over $100 a month in co-pays for that. Our healthcare system is an absolute joke. My husband and I have GOOD jobs, we HAVE healthcare, yet we can’t afford to go to the doctor. Please tell me how the richest country in the world allows this to happen.

The same way teenagers are allowed to buy assault rifles to mow down blameless citizens AND CHILDREN...again...and again.

It's all about money.

Insurance providers OWN Congress Critters to insure they continue to amass ill-gotten wealth for their CEO's & shareholders. Gun manufacturers OWN the NRA & successfully OWN almost the entire Republican Party! Since the Supreme Court ruled in favor of corporate bribery by treating it as equal to the free speech of individuals, too many members of Congress in both parties have been bought by campaign "contributions" to serve the 1%—not their voters.

It feels like our country is at a breaking point & I despair. But I'm going to tell you how to fight back! Get your doctor to print out the order to the Lab. Go directly to the Lab that does your son's blood work, present the order, & yourself as a "Self-Pay" (someone w/o insurance), and NEGOTIATE!

I swear this works because I've done it. I have gone entire decades w/o insurance that forced me to learn how to bargain w/ doctors & other healthcare providers. You need to understand all medical services are grossly inflated to cover the costs inflicted on them by insurers. Remind them you will pay them directly, spare them the paperwork, & waiting months to be paid by an insurance company. They will give you a Self-Pay discount. Depending on who they are & your level of desperation, you might get as much as 70% off & they'll offer a payment plan that you can afford to pay off the balance.

It's not too late to negotiate a payment plan for your current bills but you can get a discount & better terms if you deal w/ them before it goes thru insurance. Sparing them that effort is your prime bargaining chip AND THE FACT that the people you will talk to face-to-face are human beings who are in healthcare because they care. They absolutely want to help you work around the system.

Now I'll tell you a funny story: Back in the 80's, I got a fucking boil on my butt that I couldn't reach & went to a doc-in-a-box to get it lanced. They referred me to a General Surgeon! I saw him & he wanted to admit me for out-patient surgery at a nearby hospital. There would be an anesthesiologist & I'd feel no pain.

I said, "Stop, wait, I don't have insurance. How much is all that going to cost?"

"I don't know exactly," he furrowed his brow, "Maybe $3500."

I exclaimed, "To lance a boil! That's ridiculous! Do it right here & now! I'll lean over this examining table, you jab it w/ a scalpel, squeeze, clean, slap a bandage on it, & your work is done. I'd do it myself but I can't reach it."

He argued w/ me about the pain & I replied, "I have gone thru natural childbirth—twice. I can handle it."

He started to get excited, said, "Wait, I think I've got a form," & hurried off. He returned w/ a waiver that absolved him of liability for performing a procedure outside of "normal" protocols. I signed it & he got even more excited, "I haven't done anything as direct & simple as this since I was a medic in Nam. I pay a fortune for medical liability insurance & they dictate the protocols."

He was absolutely thrilled to work outside of the system & called me brilliant for not even flinching when he jabbed me. I got my boil lanced for the discounted price of a Self-Pay office visit—$60 paid in full upon receipt of services. He also gave me a free sample of antibiotic ointment & a few waiver forms to use in the future, which I did.

DON'T FEEL HELPLESS! FIGHT BACK!

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ailtrahq · 1 year ago

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nightswithkookmin · 4 years ago

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RE BigHit vs Jikook

@sizzlingpatrolfox

I appreciate you trying to clear things up after my last post on this topic.

I skimmed through your rejoinder and I get where you are coming from. But it seems the point of my response to you flew right over your head too.

You know what gaslighting is great but do you know what whistling is and how the erroneous use of reductios- reductio ad absurdums, the act of reducing another's argument to absurd extremities in order to critique is a form of whistling- exposing a person to online attacks or placing a target on an individual's back?

I really, really don't believe BigHit would HIDE TWO PEOPLE interacting within the group either you know?

I don't think asking two people to tone things down or slow down because they are acting risqué is the same as HIDING those two peole. That's gaslighting and is tacky.

Are you aware that by intentionally misconstruing and misinterpreting my theories in the way that you are doing in your reblogs can subject me to unwarranted negative attention and could potentially lead others who come across your reblogs out of context to attack, disparage and critique me harshly unprovoked?

Cyber Trolls and bullies looking for attention on the bird app often use this tactic to direct hate and abuse towards individuals they've tartget.

They intentionally distort their targets words, twist it around, reduce it to something absurd that they know will inflame passions or take it out of context, and post it online to incite and direct mass hate and violence towards people knowing full well that not everyone who comes across the content they've posted would grasp the context or go out of their way to find the right context of those texts.

These people try and often succeed at weaponizing the mass attention by appealing to the crowds sense of 'cancel culture' as a means to suppress and oppress people they've targeted on the internet.

I have been subjected to this form of online abuse one too many times, I'm used to it by now. But I don't find it funny at all. People will intentionally distort and reduce my theories to extreme absurdities or take certain bits out of context and would post these to Twitter, facebook, their GCs or whatever platforms they have in order to fuel or direct hate towards me either because they don't like me as a person or they don't like the things I say out here.

And their go to code word of attack is always, Taekook_lives because they know how passionate half the fandom is about that person.

You refer to your statement, 'BTS are ashamed of ships' and 'Jikook gets punished whenever they look at eachother' as a literary resource, whatever you mean by that, but you made it seem in your post like it's a theory coming from me or one I had espoused when in fact it's a reductio from you.

Am I the author of those statements? No. Have I said or implied those premise. No. But you have. Those are your assumptions about my posts. The emphasis is yours not mine. It's your interpretation of my work and like you said YOUR opinion on my work.

But ask yourself. Would you be dragged and attacked for it if it gained attention or would I ?

Do you see the problem here?

I get called out for people's interpretations of my posts all the time which to me is ridiculous.

There is nothing wrong with misunderstanding a post, or falling on the fallacy of reductio ad absurdum to argue your points, it can be humorous sometimes but understand it's a fallacy especially if you are appealing to the extremes of the argument like you keep doing in your reposts- please credit those posts appropriately next time you quote me by using disclaimers such as 'the emphasis is mine' where you assume a a meaning out of my posts or use 'the reductio is mine' or 'I assume by this statement you mean' 'correct me if I'm wrong'

Get creative with it. Lol.

Where none of these markers are used I assume without prejudice malice rooted in the fiery pits of hell are intended and I treat it as such.

As for the rest of your argument about Jikook not being a brand. It's fine. Do you.

But I disagree. Jikook is a brand in of themselves within BTS.

I see them as a brand. I see them as being managed by BigHit as a brand.

Also, I believe BigHit is aware they are dating and they are well aware of instances where Jikook gets negative attention too like whenever Christian organizations in South Korea lead online protests against them for promoting homophobia in South Korea because of their 'fan service.'

Side note: People are out here screaming Jikook is fan service every day but apparently South Korean Christians disagree. Lmho.

As for how BigHit manages Jikook in instances where they attract negative attention, I think their approach to JK's Tattoo girl scandal says it all.

The company asked the shop to lay low until it all blew over. I assume this is the protocol. I don't think it's crazy for me or anyone to assume that BigHit does the same with Jikook and ask them to tone things down when they are recieving negative attention or are moving in a way that is likely to attract negative attention.

I don't know how you arrived at 'BigHit is hiding Jikook' when all I said is I felt around a period BigHit had asked Jikook to tone things down- perhaps because they had a strategic partnership in the pipelines but sure go ahead and compare me to Taekook_lives because what better way to punish me for the opinions you don't agree with or shut me up than to get the do before complain gassed up 13 year olds roaming these streets to come for me😊

Or better still set loose the Kookie monsters of tumblr on me- those are a lovely bunch😊

Unfortunately, tactics like these don't work on me honey.

I'm gay and a Christian.

Hell fire doesn't stop me from doing the gay. I don't think retweets from faceless chipmunks will slow me down out here💀

As for my theory on JK and Jikook getting punished when they breach company policies or come close to breaching their glass closet- actions have consequences.

They are employees at the end of the day and as much as they have self autonomy they are required to honor their contracts, terms of service, and obey company rules in order to continue to be employed by the company.

BTS themselves have talked about recieving punishments for defying company rules every now and then. Tae Kook have said they are partners in crime because they often get into trouble with the company and get 'scolded' for it. Jin have said he got into trouble with the company for cutting his hair himself or something. He's said he was pulled into a long meeting with staff over his hair once when he dyed it by himself- cross check, I don't remember accurately what that long meeting was about.

Jimin have said the same thing- getting in trouble for doing certain things that defy company polieces. BTS have said they aren't allowed to do certain things like drunken tweets, drinking or even swearing on VLive.

Do I think they get pulled into long meetings for a word or two when they act risqué yea. Do I think sometimes drastic measures are taken to serve as a warning or deterrent to others yes.

I really don't know why you find it absurd that I assume Jikook get punished for certain actions or that they get regulated by the company.

The look on RM and JM's face in the Be. TS Vlive when JK talked about preferring white to black to me is indication JK was going off script in that moment and was acting defiant as fuck. I don't think it's far fetched for me to assume JK wasn't supposed to say what he said or that he was going against the collective will of the group to uphold the kumbaya image of the group in that instance.

It's equally not far fetched for me to assume JM or RM would ask him as politely as possible to check his attitude next time during a VLive.

Hell, we've seen Hobi advice Jikook to be careful the way they conduct themselves on stage.

We've seen RM glare at, tap, and touch JK and the others several times on stage or during interviews and awards to get them to behave themselves and Tae has explained its because RM wants and tries to get them to act and look 'cool' in front of the cameras most times.

Tae did say he wasn't allowed to record a song with Jimin now didn't he?

Aren't all these a form of regulation? Why then do you think it's absurd for me to believe Jikook are sometimes regulated?

Please listen to BTS's song, A Typical trainee's Christmas to understand in what ways the company controls them. They've said it themselves, not I.

I recommend you watch Rookie King to understand the relationship between the boys and the company. Tae and Jin were not complaining about the company for no damn reason.

Of course they've matured now and their success guarantees them more status and freedom within the company as they are royalty and shareholders of BigHit but they are employees nonetheless.

Listen to RM- the leader of the group talk about that the company disregards their ideas and their creative inputs into their visuals and marketing I presume during the TaeNamKook YouTube live in 2020.

I promise you, just think of Jikook as real and in real life settings and the mystery will go away.

They are two gay men who work together under a company that is queer friendly but set up in homophobic society.

What advice would this company give them?

There you have your answer and if you still believe it's too fantastical to assume then agreed to disagree.

Sign,

GOLDY

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hitchell-mope · 3 years ago

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I’m thinking of a celebrity au for supergirl

Karamel. Highly successful triple threats. Actors. Singers. Models. Kara models Prada. Mon El models Ralph Lauren. Mon El is a stage name that he uses for his music career. His real name in this is Mike Matthews. Their niche is Shakespeare. They’ve won multiple awards for a cross cast musical production of Hamlet. It secured them an EGOT each. And now they’re working on a sci-fi epic film version of Romeo and Juliet.

James x Lucy. James used to be a highly serious dramatic actor but now he’s breaking into comedy. Luckily. Lucy’s a very caustic standup comic (think Don Rickles and Patton Oswalt). So they’re creating their own show together. They just need to convince the studio to let James play a wacky optimist

Samantha x Winn. Samantha’s a soap opera actress. Ten nominations. And only one consolation award. But that hasn’t stopped her from trying though. Winn’s a multitalented stage actor. Singer, actor, lyricist, choreographer, writer and director. In fact. His directorial debut was the Hamlet production that Kara and Mon El won awards for.

Brainia. Also Shakespearean actors. They once played Lysander and Hermia alongside Mon El and Kara as Demetrius and Helena in a midsummer night’s dream. It was actually how they all met. Now they’re starring in a big screen remake of cheers. With Nia as the fun loving barkeep and Brainy as the stuffy intellectual

J’onn x M’gann. J’onn used to be an actor. He even won an Oscar for his first film role. But a personal tragedy led him to retire and now he’s Kara and Mon El’s bodyguard. M’gann works at Grant Talent as a 50% shareholder and personally represents Samantha and Winn

Lord’n’Luthor. Lord is a washed up action star. His biggest claim to fame was a bit part as Nicholas Cage’s murder victim in a Z lost horror film ten years ago. Lena’s not that much luckier. She’s been kicked off every tv and film set she’s been a part of for absolutely ridiculous prima donna behaviour. And now she’s being sued by Eve Tessmacher for cultivating an unhealthy work environment

Lillian x Morgan. Lillian is a highly respected but extremely volatile soap opera actress playing Samantha meddling aunt. And she keeps trying and failing to use the goodwill she has to save her tearaway stepdaughters concrete headed career. Morgan plays her on again/off again ex husband on the soap. A relation that mirrors real life quite closely.

Cat. A former child actress. Now she’s one of the leading talent agents in the country. She personally represents Kara and Mon El. Would be the first to admit that she somewhat favours Kara more. But she’d cause a scandal just to protect either one of them from harm.

Carter. Prospective child actor. His most wanted role is either Salem in a Sabrina movie, Bart in a live action Simpsons movie or Ariel in the Tempest. And thanks to his his hard work. He’s just got his first role. The voice of the AI on the USS. Montague in Mon and Kara’s sci-fi epic version of Romeo and Juliet.

Ruby. A tad more experienced than Carter. Scared everyone shitless and brought them to tears as the manifestation of her mother’s split personality on the soap opera she stars in. She won a daytime Emmy. Her mother did not.

Alex. Used to be a stunt double until she fractured her ankle. Now she’s looking to break into acting. Her first role. Benvolio in karamel’s R&J sci-fi epic. She’s looking forward to something not too strenuous

Eliza. Alex and Kara’s mother. Famous in her own right. Terrified audiences across the world as Lady Macbeth in an early naughties miniseries. Which was immediately followed by an equally chilling turn as the eponymous character in a Hercules show from Hera’s point of view. Now headlines a medical series examining the politics of a hospitals administration department in the 1980’s. Although she’s also eyeing up a sabbatical so she can return to the stage as King Lear

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10 Dates | The Obstacle Date

Summary: Kim Junmyeon was the epitome of a perfect catch - he was successful, handsome and everything you currently didn’t want in a man. Yet after agreeing to his request to give him 10 dates in total to change your mind, you realised you might have been looking for someone like him all along.

Pairing: Kim Junmyeon x reader

Genre: dating au / romance

Warnings: none

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The confessions in Italy only weighed heavier once back on home soil. Although you tried not to let it bother you, it did. There was so much more to Junmyeon than you had even expected. And whilst it was rather innocent and came from a genuine heart, you were uneasy.

Not by him, but by yourself.

Did you always have this habit of jumping into things too fast? You admitted to him that you were falling in love. Now over something small, you were backtracking as if those ardent confessions didn’t mean anything.

Because they did. You weren’t joking about feeling what you did for him.

However, Junmyeon was right. You should have waited. There were moments in the relationship thus far where you could tell he wanted to tell you that he had liked you for so long. You were certain it would have naturally come out at some point and in the right setting you probably would have been touched.

To some point, you were now, even if you couldn’t quite comprehend it.

“He’s liked you since forever?” Ayla asked after you explained to your best friends what had happened for you to return home and not gush a mile a minute about how fantastic everything was.

Nodding slowly, you looked to Kelsi, waiting for her to pipe up about how Junmyeon was still the dream man. Instead, she looked puzzled. “If he liked you so much, why didn’t he just do something about it?”

“It was when I dated Kyungsoo in high school so it kind of occurred around the same time.”

“Yeah but you just said he crossed paths with you more than recently. He’s an adult, he could have approached you now,” Ayla mentioned and Kelsi nodded along.

You sighed. “I know. But I can also understand why he didn’t. It’s rather odd though, don’t you think? Junmyeon and I are adults yet a lot of this relationship has been built on juvenile things like my plan to escape if necessary. Those first few dates were definitely a mess.”

“Yet, he still liked you,” Kelsi offered but Ayla scoffed.

“Yeah because he’s liked Y/N forever. He’s living out his teenage fantasy right now. How long will that last?”

“He’s genuine,” you grappled at a defence for the man. You didn’t appreciate hearing it from your friends like that, even if you had thought it all yourself. “He’s been nothing but a gentleman. He never forced me to do anything, and he never rushed a thing. It’s me who did. I think I’m the one with the problem. Each person I’ve dated, I would tell them I loved them and then something would come up. I don’t wait long enough to understand what is really love and what is just lust.”

“You live in a fairytale over romance, you always have,” Kelsi explained. “That’s why I thought if I sent a prince your way, maybe you’d snap out of that way of thinking. Kim Junmyeon is a great man and it’s uncanny that you both have a history that wasn’t clear from the start. But that doesn’t mean he can’t be your happily ever after if that’s what you want, Y/N.”

“The problem is, I don’t know what I want. I confessed to feelings that maybe were too premature and now it feels like a mess. Everything was going so smoothly.”

“And now you have an obstacle to face,” Ayla concluded, staring at you carefully. “It’s in every story, Y/N. It’s up to you whether you think you can get passed it or if you should give up before you try.”

Lowering your head, you didn’t know what the right answer was anymore.

You were thankful for your return to work. It kept you busy during the day and with a new team project, you were able to extend it into the nights.

Still, you knew you couldn’t avoid Junmyeon either.

“Hey,” you spoke into your phone as you leaned back in your work chair. It had been a few days since you last talked and you swallowed back the distance you felt pushing in between you.

“Hey.”

“How’s work?” you started, cringing silently at how ridiculous that was to ask. Spinning around in your chair, you clamped your eyes shut and tried to think of something better to say whilst Junmyeon gave a generic answer. “Ah, that’s good. Do you think we could meet up tonight?”

“Tonight would be good,” he agreed, sounding more earnest than usual. You wondered if he was anxious like you were too. “Should I cook?”

“No I’ll bring something on my way over,” you replied and after arranging a time, you hung up and stared at your office wall for an immeasurable moment.

It was hard to remain focused on your job for the rest of the day and you were grateful when it was an acceptable time to leave the office, stopping by one of your favourite sushi stores before taking an Uber over to Junmyeon’s home.

He answered the door with the smile you had missed seeing every day, and for a moment you grinned back, stepping inside his home and carried the food over to the table in his kitchen. Junmyeon helped you out of your coat and then lingered at your side.

“I don’t know what I am allowed to do or not do,” he admitted, his arms loosely outstretched towards you.

It was enough of an invitation for you to step into his waiting embrace, inhaling deeply to ground yourself. It felt as if it had been years since you were last here, not mere days. Feeling greedy, you didn’t step away at an acceptable time, remaining embedded into his side until you were certain you’d forget all about why you came over tonight.

Maybe that would be best. If you could just forget about all of it, you could go back to loving on Junmyeon in the way you had begun to. However, the hours you had spent overthinking everything required attention and you finally shifted back, your cheeks pink as you tried to gesture to the food.

“I got sushi since I know you like it.”

“Should we eat first then talk?”

You nodded with a smile. “Food should never have a part in any deep discussions.”

And so you both chatted. You heard about the recent shareholder’s meeting Junmyeon had attended for his company and praised him for securing another big deal. He was equally interested in your new project proposal and asked how things were with your friends. It was all amicable and yet, you could both feel the burning questions lying just underneath the shallow ones, waiting to be exposed.

Finally, once seated in the living room, it was time to do so. Junmyeon ran a hand through his hair agitatedly. “Are you wanting to break up with me?”

“I can’t say it didn’t cross my mind a few times,” you responded carefully, playing with the bracelet on your wrist. You smiled sadly. “But I also know it’s the last thing I want to do.”

“Really?”

“I wasn’t hurt by what you had to say, rather with myself,” you confessed, angling yourself on the couch you both sat upon so you were facing him. After tucking your legs up underneath yourself, you nodded softly. “I told you I was falling in love with you.”

“Does it feel different now?”

“Every relationship I’ve had, I’ve always wondered where I went wrong. I would try to meet people who I thought matched me well, and every time it would end with me feeling as if there was no growth, no excitement. None of the initial flutters remained and so I believed I grew complacent and fell out of love. After meeting you, I don’t think that was the case at all.”

Junmyeon merely waited for you to continue, his expression curious and encouraging.

“I told people I was in love with them before I could truly feel what love was. I did the same with you too. The difference is, with you, I know I can reach that feeling. Whatever I feel right now, I know it will only deepen and become more powerful the longer I’m with you.”

Junmyeon couldn’t stop the smile that spread over his lips. “Well, that’s a relief to hear. With how everything ended on our trip, I was convinced you’d be coming around to end things tonight with me.”

“That would be the easy way through navigating the obstacle that has arrived in our narrative, right?” you mentioned with a heavy breath. “We could both decide what we had was amazing, but too much of a dream to continue. Or we could pretend nothing came up for us and continue with the loving words we expressed. Worse even, we could opt for a clean slate and start afresh.”

“Are they our only options?”

You shook your head. “I choose option four.”

“What’s that?”

“We acknowledge the way we got together wasn’t always ideal. I for one had no hope for us and reacted rather juvenile towards you. Equally, the rush I began to feel carried me too strongly into a realm that I’m not ready to fully commit to. I listened to my friends at times when I should have been listening to myself or to you. I wasn’t fully present as myself and myself only until the fourth date.”

“The real us date,” he murmured with a fond smile and you nodded, scooting along the couch, closing the distance between you.

“Let’s just be real with each other. So you liked me for years. I don’t know why you didn’t do anything about it, life is mysterious like that. However, you can tell me. And I’ll listen. I’m not prepared to let go of what I discovered in Italy with you. We’ve come too far to have a clean slate, to pretend anything. I want to be real and raw with you. You told me to wait to tell you that I felt something for you, and so now, I want to do just that. I want to grow with you until the moment I can no longer keep those words in and they scream out from every part of me. We’ve only just begun this adventure together; it’d be a shame to stop journeying like this.”

Junmyeon cradled your face in his hands, nodding as he ran a thumb over your cheek gently. “I want to go with option four as well. How long do I have you here tonight? I want to discuss as much as I can with you.”

“Well,” you mentioned slowly, trying not to let yourself come across as too eager. “I was kind of hoping you’d have room for me in your bed and time in the morning to drop me off at work or a subway station?”

Leaning in and kissing you slowly, much like your very first kiss, Junmyeon then pulled back only enough to rest his forehead on yours. “I was kind of hoping that would be your answer too.”

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eyadkashkash · 3 years ago

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The Ultimate Guide to influencing sustainable leadership

Introduction

It is unimaginable to enforce social and environmental responsibility unless the mindset of private sector leaders undergoes a complete transformation or shift. Sustainable leadership can increase the likelihood for changes to occur that focus on creating a better world with equality for all. The concept of sustainable leadership applies to every sector, every industry and all the individuals of the society at large. It not only ends poverty but also serves to help the bottom line of a company. This blog page will provide an all-encompassing rundown of sustainable leadership, including an explanation of why it is important, characteristics of a sustainable leader and most importantly principles and ways of influencing sustainable leadership.

What is Sustainable Leadership and Why Does it Matter?

Sustainable leadership refers to a process of influence that ensures the delivery of direction, alignment, as well as commitment. The aim of positively influencing sustainable leadership is to address the economic, social, and environmental issues to ensure a better organization or world. The definition demonstrates that leadership is a process of influence rather than a position and this process involves a group of different people who work together to create a change through their shared sense or vision. This process of influence requires coordination of activities and fostering of personal commitments to collective success. Sustainability has become a fundamental managerial task to ensure organizational sustainability in today's world. A sustainable leader strives to reduce the negative impacts of managerial decisions on the triple bottom line that include environmental, social, or economic developments. Outstanding and extraordinary leadership skills are required to address the issues that surround organizational sustainability. Such leadership skills also enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage in the market. The transition of organizations towards sustainability demands its leaders to adopt a more innovative approach for managing organizational changes.

Influencing sustainability-oriented leadership means tackling the present business challenges and the issues of the future as well with the aim of making the long-term sustainability of the world a priority simultaneously. There has been an emergence of the growing desire among customers, investors, and stakeholders to connect the financial performance of a company with its environmental and social impact. The factors such as environmental, social, and corporate governance are now always incorporated into investment analysis by analysts(Venkataraman, 2020). A factor that plays a significant role of an indicator for determining that a particular company is a good investment for a long-term is the ethically centered approach of the company towards its customers, employees, and the world. Sustainable leadership also influences the corporate governance, as shareholders actively consider the resolutions that serve as a link between social and environmental performance to problems like compensation and board member credentials.

The Principles of Influencing Sustainable Leadership

Certain principles of sustainability leadership demonstrate the aspects of leadership that are particularly essential in the context of leadership to advance sustainable development(Taylor, n.d.). One can influence sustainable leadership by the effective application of these principles. Sustainable leaders hold the opinion that is characterized by being systemic and long-term goals. This worldview holds the power to change or shape the specific choices that a leader makes and drive what sustainability initiatives will be accomplished. Sustainability leaders often operate in cross-boundary settings or networks that consist of leaders playing varying roles of leadership. The cross-boundary networks of leaders play a significant role in building and delivering a shared vision for change. Sustainable leaders would be able to efficiently reflect on which leadership roles have an increased likelihood of bringing out their best. Hence, sustainable leaders spend most of their time working across boundaries. Sustainability issues and challenges are complicated and cross-boundary in nature. Sustainable leaders require a broad knowledge of the issue they are handling or addressing, as well as knowledge about the institutional environment. Working in this context, sustainable leadership also requires the leadership abilities that enable the leader to engage in social networking, emotional intelligence, a wide range of communication skills, and the capacity to exert influence with little authority.

Sustainable leaders can exercise influence without possessing authority. Most scholars argue that influence rather than authority is the key element to successful sustainable leadership. Leaders mostly have no authority in cross-boundary networks where they are seeking to exercise influence over a group of people or other leaders. To accomplish the goal of exerting influence without having any authority demands that sustainable leaders must build several forms of personal power(Avery & Bergsteiner, 2011). For instance, this power can be derived from credibility, expertise, relationships, and having institutional knowledge and essential as well as helpful information. The leaders are required to build relationships beforehand and design influence strategies. A sustainable leader must have the potential to use the kind of leadership that is well suited in a particular context. The influential sustainable leaders do not hesitate in working in complex environments. It is the core skill of a sustainable leader to differentiate between different types of leadership issues or challenges and choosing the appropriate style of leadership needed to address each challenge. These skills might include collaboration, character, and continuity of commitment, competence, or communication.

Who can become a Sustainable Leader

Sustainable leaders have a diverse, wide-ranged, and holistic vision for influencing sustainability. This vision is integrated into the company's strategy, culture and objectives. The factors that can enable an individual to influence sustainable leadership include a comprehensive vision and ability to execute it, top support from the management, sustainability goals and measurements, and long-term thinking. Organizations and their members can create a sustainable future together through sustainability leadership. Unlike various other forms of leadership that instill a sense of "learned helplessness," sustainable leadership is concerned with all individuals who are courageous enough to take responsibility, regardless of their function or position. Leaders who influence sustainable leadership take calculated as well as educated risks, share their knowledge with others, and consider themselves as part of a larger context. Leadership for long-term success necessitates the ability to plot a route through complexity, critically think and evaluate the multidimensional issues, and engage others in a dynamic and adaptive organizational transformation. Sustainability leaders must be humble and willing to learn in the face of fresh facts to do this. Ordinary managers, who have heard the term "sustainability" during their management training, suddenly find themselves in a global organizational context that necessitates paradigm adjustments. As a result, the ability to change one's perspective is critical, perhaps even more so than spectacular management awards, which are increasingly invalidated by an unpredictably and swiftly changing environment. As a result, these leaders are doers who have let go of the desire to be correct, demonstrating a personal ethic that extends beyond self-interest.

How to influence Sustainable Leadership

Leaders can influence sustainable leadership by being inclusive and not forcefully giving directions(Thakhathi et al., 2019). An effective way to influence sustainable leadership is by leading through collaborating with each other and giving rise to win-win partnerships to emerge that can able to handle larger sustainability concerns. Sustainable leaders accept uncertainty and change staying mindful of the fact that the change can bring significant advantages for the organization and the stakeholders as well. The individuals who implement this approach can majorly influence sustainable leadership. To influence sustainable leadership positively, one has to see beyond the short-term and immediate gains to determine the role his organization plays in the larger context. One should set strategies to ensure the delivery of results. This can be achieved through fostering and building relationships and connections with multiple stakeholders at the internal or external level and show concern regarding their interests and engagement(De Haan et al., 2015). These actions and initiatives are motivated by the purpose to influence sustainable leadership and meeting the goal of corporate sustainability. Influencing sustainable leadership requires a person to possess a strong sense of purpose that grown in alignment with the organization's sense of mission.

Evaluate your potential for sustainable leadership

If your personality is inherently motivated to accomplish the prosperity of the triple bottom line of financial, social, and environmental arenas and to serve the three P's i.e. people, planet, and profit, congrats! You are capable of influencing sustainable leadership. Having potential to see the stakeholders in a broader sense and value their interests instead of using them for personal gain only, keeping up momentum towards the desired goal by overcoming resistance rather than getting distracted by it is the key element in influencing sustainable leadership and if you possess the courage that is required to do that, you are already there. If you have the integrity to reflect and practice moral values and honesty in both personal and professional life, you can successfully influence sustainable leadership as well as you can be seen as a role model by the stakeholders.

Analyzing Sustainable Leadership

In my opinion, mindset of a sustainable leader sets the institutional underpinning for influencing sustainable leadership and is the most defining factor for developing a strategic outlook and network building with other stakeholders. Sustainable leaderships require a mindset that considers a larger and broad context beyond the immediate interests of the organization. Having the intellectual flexibility and the ability to evaluate the details of a strategy by shifting perspectives where necessary is the key element. The most effective way to influence sustainable leadership efficiently is by embracing diversity while working in cross-boundary networks and enhancing and exercising the capability to recognize, interpret and respond appropriately with other stakeholders and organizations. Instead of focusing just on employees, customers, and shareholders, which are often the primary stakeholders in traditional leadership models, sustainable leaders must influence a diverse group of stakeholders with differing and opposing interests.

Call-to-Action

The open-mindedness required to display an unbiased attitude towards the ideas and beliefs of stakeholders is a practice that you must do in your daily routine by embracing the new ideas of others in an unprejudiced manner.

References

Avery, G. C., & Bergsteiner, H. (2011). Sustainable leadership practices for enhancing business resilience and performance. Strategy & Leadership.

De Haan, T., Jansen, P., & Ligthart, P. (2015). Sustainable leadership: Talent requirements for sustainable enterprises. Russell Reynolds Associates.

Taylor, A. (n.d.). Six Principles of Sustainability Leadership—André Taylor | UNSW Business School. Retrieved June 14, 2021, from https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/AGSM-Site/The-Leader-Site/Pages/Six-Principles-of-Sustainability-Leadership-Andre-Taylor.aspx

Thakhathi, A., le Roux, C., & Davis, A. (2019). Sustainability leaders' influencing strategies for institutionalizing organizational change towards corporate sustainability: A strategy-as-practice perspective. Journal of Change Management, 19(4), 246–265.

Venkataraman, R. (2020, October 1). Becoming a sustainable leader. FM Magazine. https://www.fm-magazine.com/issues/2020/oct/how-to-be-a-sustainable-leader.html

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