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Care and involvement

Care is an important aspect of how we feel about what we do. Caring about something reflects the involvement in action in front of us. Involvement is often an indication of owing the task at hand. At a subconscious level, we have full acceptance of what we want to do and exactly how we need to go about it. 

Involvement also means that we know the owned task has beneficiaries who will get positively or negatively influenced by what we do. This understanding generates attention to minimizing the pitfalls of our actions. Such attention means caring about something.

Care means involvement which generates attention and helps generate an outcome that people are likely to be supportive of, they see that it is something that is wanted.

Repeated care has the power of generating the feeling of want from those who benefit. Followership of someone's work, behavior, and teaching are dependent on the care embedded in how that is done.

At work, the subject matter knowledge someone possesses rarely creates a delight. It's the care that creates the value of special association that comes with the subject matter. Such association has the power of building a brand. Brand steps from the consistency of care demonstrated by the organization. When Having knowledge is one thing, knowing how to impart that knowledge with care is yet another!

And knowing when someone cares about any cause is at the root of developing healthy contributions and lasting associations. In every aspect of our life.

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