Consider this. If it is possible to list him as a person on the stock market, what would his real value be?
Have you ever, in your wildest imagination, thought that one day it might be possible to list professional men and women on the Stock Exchange? You never say. In fact, you think it’s just a figment of my imagination.
I agree with you. Being personally listed on the Stock Exchange could be just imagination today. But it can be real tomorrow.
Many things that we see, with which we live and work today, were imagination years ago before becoming reality. Name them. Space exploration, the Internet, the digital camera and many high-tech devices. Today, technology has compressed the world into the cell phone in your hands. Those who put their imaginations to work years ago are reaping bountiful harvests today, regardless of currency fluctuations and global upheavals of market forces.
So why not take a step of faith today, get ahead of your peers, trust in God who created you with the power of imagination, not lean on your own understanding, and just start pondering this question: “If it’s me possible to be listed on the Stock Exchange, what would be the real value of my share? How will my friends, colleagues, the financial press and investors evaluate me? What is it about me that will attract them to invest?
Years ago, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) was the only professional body to enjoy chartered status in Nigeria. Today, many professional bodies seek such status for their institutes and members.
A collegiate status confers maturity, excellence, discipline, integrity, authority, added value and prestige to members. What’s stopping them from seeking a public listing tomorrow and asking members to do the same as a way to promote professionalism and control quackery? As a professional, what will distinguish you from professional counterfeiters and pirates will go beyond your experience, professional and academic training. It will be your true self that will determine the price of your share on the Stock Exchange, that is, if you meet the requirements to be listed.
And doing so means submitting oneself and one’s professional vocation to the discipline and authority of a regulatory body that will seek the personal listing of professionals on the Stock Exchange.
Think about this. It will lead you to a sober reflection and a complete balance about yourself, your products and services, your business and your relationships. Forget how much money you make and where you stand on your career or corporate ladder. The question again. What is your true value? No acting, no compromises.
If it is possible to privatize it through an Initial Public Offering of shares, would investors be interested in acquiring its shares, believing that they will reap dividends from professionalism?
What would be its real value per share if listed? Are you sure your personal shares will sell for up to $1 per share?
Don’t beat your chest and quickly state that your stock will sell for more than that because investors will subject you to the same considerations and criteria that apply to all of your stock market investments. Are you sure that any investor will buy from you because in investment considerations, there are no emotions? Investors are real in their approach. They have real money that they want to put into real people, real businesses. And they want real returns, no acting, no stories.
Dear professional, you can be handsome or pretty, highly intelligent, highly qualified and well connected.
So what makes it attractive to investors that will allow them to determine its value per share?
If I ask him his value, he will probably monetize his personal assets, wealth, qualifications, experience, and goodwill and tell me his value.
But it will hide its responsibilities in ethics, character and content. But if I still ask you, “What is your real value?”, you can hesitate or throw the question at me: “What do you mean by your real value?” I’ll tell you.
Your real value incorporates what marketing experts call demographic and psychographic data. They include age, income, wealth, assets, qualifications, socioeconomic class, personality, values, and others. You know them. But what distinguishes your true value in my understanding are your ways, integrity, talent, skills, beliefs, ethics, righteousness, character and your relationship with Almighty God.
The last three factors are so vital yet so neglected even by stockbrokers and investment analysts. The new challenge is, how can brokers measure these factors? His eyes and concentration are rigidly fixed on the bottom line, profits, assets and liabilities. All about figures and Facts behind the figures, and never about the People behind the figures. That is why today there is so much corruption in many business sectors.
But as business risks mount and global economic turmoil intensifies, soon, and very soon, the focus will shift from the numbers and the facts behind them, to the people. This will announce the listing of professionals on Stock Exchanges around the world, because the real problems are not the figures, but the people behind the figures. So what is your true value?
Today we have the Commodity Stock Exchange. One day, the Human Stock Exchange will arrive.
You are ready? Price sums up the value of anything. Measure the value of any product or service. It can fluctuate, up and down, driven by quality, quantity, availability, and the market forces of supply and demand.
How can I have a price? questions, I am a human being, good reasoning.
But that was valid years ago, not now. Today, everyone has a price. You heard it before. But you have never really considered the wisdom of that statement, because you believed it to be more of a cliché than something real.
You have a price. Not the amount of money that people can bribe you with or buy your conscience with. Its price is its true value, which requires a lot of wisdom and common sense to discern. You have often heard men say: “that girl is cheap”. Why do they say that? They are not talking about monetary value. What they mean could be that “that girl” can be easy to manipulate, take advantage of, use, throw away, easily dazzle with material things, and easily deceive with lies. Why then do men say that she is cheap?
The girl in question may well be a licensed professional with a host of professional degrees and qualifications, memberships, experience, good pay, drives two cars, and lives comfortably in a duplex. However, a man who does not earn even a quarter of her income calls her cheap.
So what is “cheap”? It has to do with their dignity, self-esteem, chastity, values, manners and strength of character. She must have compromised some or all of these in her relationship with the man.
What could have caused this? Perhaps it is due to the forces of demand and supply of husbands in the marriage market.
These forces are vicious, harassing many aging spinsters, forcing them to compromise their values and standards in their desperation for husbands. There are many aging spinsters in the marriage market today. Many of them And many of them are professionals, well connected, boasting intimidating credentials, good income, yet one thing still eludes them, and that is getting a husband.
The plight of these professional spinsters is not helped by the paradox of the marriage market.
As spinsters increase in number and age, the number of marriageable men decreases. At 35, the spinster is really desperate to get married. She falls into the hands of hit-and-run men, full of lies and looking for desperate ladies to beat the panel.
To hook her man, our dear spinster lowers her standards, perhaps compromises her chastity, and behaves in a way that the man considers cheap. She collects all the bills, and even pampers the man, all to get a husband. However, they abandon it and describe it as cheap. How painful. If “desperate spinster” were to go public, and the runaway lover was an investment analyst, how would she value her stock? Would you advise investors to bet her money on this spinster? Spinsters, I ask you, what is her true value?
The case of this class of spinsters is pathetic. The men touch them and leave. They fast and pray, without husbands. Yet some men, who aren’t even qualified to be next in rank in corporate offices, have the temerity to say, “That girl is cheap.” Men leave to marry less “qualified” girls. What does this example tell you? Your real value goes beyond your qualifications and material resources.
Dear professionals, do a personal audit of your life and your work. are you real
What is your relationship with God? If you establish a personal relationship with your creator and are real, regardless of the odds, then your true worth will be appreciated.
But if you start to act and do it your way without God, just because you want to get what you want so much, your value will depreciate.