Had a meeting with a BIG guy, rich and has everything (almost) this world can give. Yet the comment from my colleague who's meeting him for the first time is that money cannot buy you wisdom.
Throughout that hour or more of the meeting, the BIG guy was incoherent and, at times, contradictory.
We're doing this project for one of his divisions in the company and he just wants us to do what was conceived; NOT what we can add to the conception. At times, we felt like he might as well have conceived the idea (if it can be called an idea) and done the execution of that idea to his consumers himself. To start with, it isn't an idea per se. It's just what he thought his target market or consumers would like to know about his product. Honestly, me being one of his consumers, we are really interested in only what his product can offer us in terms of benefit. We don't care how you made the product. We don't care how you arrived at this idea of having this product. All we're interested in is "how this product will benefit us and hence keep us interested in repeated purchases of this product".
I would have thought that rich people will have all the privileges of getting the best and most up to date information in order to survive in this age - the age of the internet and the age of globalisation. I must say that I'm totally and utterly disappointed, along with my colleagues.
Wisdom - and success, for that matter - must never be taken for granted, I thought. But you know what my colleague had to say? It's enlightening; and he's proud to have had this chance to meet someone who fell prey to his (my colleague's) tickling of his (the BIG guy's) imagination.
There you go. Nothing is absolute. When one bullies the others, he/she do not know that the others see that bullying as challenges to their wits.
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