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What is your PD Factor? It determines your success-failure rate

Your PD is your Person Differentiator, your Product Differentiator and your Process Differentiator. Your Person Differentiator may be the way you look, your persona per se. It could be your unique talent in some particular domain. It could be the way you think or the way you talk or what you talk or what you think or what you write. Person Differentiator defines and determines personal success or failure. Product Differentiator defines and determines corporate success or failure at a given point in time. The first person who made a rough wheel or struck fire with flint stones had a product differentiator on his/her hands. His Person Differentiator led him to the innovation on account of his desire to create something new , different and probably useful. His Process Differentiator led him to share his success story with the rest of his circle, his family and hunt-mates. All subsequent inventions and innovations are an extension of that wheel. Who said, we don’t need to reinvent the wheel? We need to be at it. Process Differentiation is the way you do things as individuals or organizations. Persons, organizations, governments and nations that work on all their three PD factors experience a greater success to failure ratio.
Prateep V Philip ( copyright-Prateep v Philip)

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FOP an instance of perception re-engineering

The FOP or Friends of People, Police, Press, Poor, Progress, Pupils, Principles, Peace concept transforms the perceptions of the average citizen such that he/she becomes empowered by a new sense of identity with all these facets. The average citizen whose concept of citizenship was that he/she should live peacefully, enjoy his/her rights, pay the taxes, obey the laws, now realizes that the citizen can play a more active contributory role in society and the state. Besides, the perception about the police, the equal role of the public in policing, the perception of the police themselves vis a vis their role as catalysts facilitating citizens to better police themselves lead to mutual understanding and a better security environment. The police, for one thing will begin to perceive themselves not as agents of the government or not merely as creatures of the law but as servants and friends of the people as a whole. This perception will lead to behavioural modification since people are beginning to openly identify themselves as Friends of Police, it behooves the police to behave as Friends of People. The palpable sense of fear of police that exists in postcolonial countries like India will begin to decline and eventually disappear. The people's perception that police are indeed, their friends and can be trusted would lead to them sharing information and intelligence with the police. When citizens participate in policing by doing night patrols, traffic regulation and so on, their perception of the police will change and they will develop a sense of empathy for the police. The view that the police are defenders of the status quo, and are pro-rich and anti-poor will change when the other meaning of FOP Friend of Poor is canvassed. People and police personnel will begin to take actions to help the poor and underprivileged. Such changes in perception, behaviour and actions will lead to a gradual, incremental transformation of the hitherto negative police image in the eyes of the public they are meant to serve.

Perception and National Development

Deng Xiaoping, the architect of Modern China was invited by Lee Yuankew , then President of Singapore to witness first hand the economic miracle wrought under his leadership in Singapore. That visit transformed Deng's perception of the utility of capitalism and the virtue of free enterprise. Thereafter, he sent several delegations of Chinese officials to Singapore. They too felt that a similar economic transformation was possible in mainland China. Altered perceptions of the path of economic development led China to give up Communist notions of state ownership of capitalism and the crushing of private initiative. It led to the concept of the Special Economic Zone. Deng's new orientation to policy was famously summed up in his aphorism that " it does not matter if a cat was black or red, as long as it caught the mice." Communist Capitalism was the net result with the political reins of power in the hands of the Communist Party of China and the reins of economic development in the hands of private enterprise funded by foreign capital.

Chrysalis phase synonymous with metacognition

The chrysalis stage is synonymous with metacognition where apparently a person is dormant and lying inert and still but massive invisible internal formation is taking place within. Metacognition involves the exercise of all the powers of intuition, imagination and faith. Unlike the phase of the caterpillar marked by hyperactivity, a person soars on the wings of imagination, develops the strength of conviction and takes risks to discover purpose and find fulfilment. This is a phase marked by intensity. Prayer, meditation and other spiritual disciplines connects us during this phase with a higher consciousness.

Perception Re-engineering leads to metamorphosis

The new perception is akin to the egg or seed of development. The caterpillar phase is the pre-cognition and the cognition phase where a caterpillar focusses on consuming leaves all around, a person (s)focusses on learning or acquiring as much information or knowledge as possible. The re-cognition and meta-cognition phases integrates wisdeom with knowledge.

As Stephen Covey wrote, " Private victory precedes public victory." But, the path from private victory to public victory or recognition proceeds along these four phases of Pre-cognition, cognition, re-cognition and meta-cognition. These four phases correspond to the egg, caterpillar, and chrysallis stages that precede the emergence of the beautiful butterfly. Our ideas and our work also take wing through such a process.