WOULD YOU TAKE YOUR OWN ADVICE

We all currently practice the law in a culture that is full of hype fakery and lots of cynism where the motto seems to be, do as I say not as I do. This logically follows that if what you are saying is so great why on Gods green earth are you not doing it yourself?

Applying this idea directly to the world of business it means do bankers do want they want customers to pay them for, do investment advisers give advice that they would take and more pointedly do law firms give advise that they would take?

Taking your own advice in a capitalist system is extremely difficult because you can get people to pay for stuff once you can swing a good line and you can legally corner the market for your service or product (a monopoly) if you phrase it rightly.

A classic example is the advertising industry which designs ads and all, have you ever seen an ad company place an ad in a paper or on a billboard, then how on earth do they have the gall to tell companies to place ads all the time? If you find this train of thought a bit irksome all you have to do is to think it through. You will also find that it has wide application.

The theme here is... You got it: Practice what you preach. It will be difficult, you can hide behind a thousand legitimate reasons (this is not how business is done etc) but if you do practice what you preach you will be a breath of fresh air and always 'new' to your business partners, clients.