Do not strive for excellence... And a few business words.

Do not strive for excellence; rather, go for best yet.

Talk about optimise -- but practise a policy of slight improvements.

Pursue and promote leadership as a competency, but recruit executives -- people who do things as opposed to people who talk about things.

Only you, the leader (and politicians, aspiring leaders), are there to talk about things rather than do things.

Do NOT recruit talent to satisfy management consumerism needs, but because you need gifted people.

You only need gifted people if you are, yourself, gifted; otherwise such people will get you down. If, however, you yourself are gifted, then the result of working around such people will be uplifting and the precursor to your operating at high potential.

Your core team is usually composed of people you know, are used to, and who know you, and are used to your quirks. They are the best people out there, if you define best as, "the least fatiguing, getting my job done satisfactorily". The reason you chose one person and not the other is not competency of one over the other. It is other things. You can identify these. Do so.

Tricky Business

Remember that scandals SHOULD not be the resort of business development & improvement and they are NOT, unless when business comes to close exchange with politics -- or when politics becomes the better, or an important, part of the business.

Politics can become the better part of business in democratic and authoritarian environments. The democratic environments are better in the short run because they operate under a veil of legality; authoritarian environments are presumed illegal in politically-correctese.

In the long-run, however, political business is best practised in authoritarian environments because these are (inter alia):

• less corrupt (this no longer holds true in Africa) and thereby cheaper
• more predictable, short-term
• safer, short-term
• more efficient because of red-tape exemptions
• more efficient because of quick decision-making.

Remember the maxim:
"The price of democracy is corruption; the price of efficiency is dictatorship"©

This image has little direct relation to the above UNTIL you come to realise that she works for you in some capacity other than the one illustrated here. Hence you are correlated.

Why fucking the planet and burning what's left will never stop

Because people are mostly ignorant and they don't understand why they do much of what they do.

Because the ignorant people and the dumb people and the dumb-ignorant people are the majority -- but failure of the brain does not always signify failure of the pocket. So some of these dumb-ignorant people are wealthy or well off.

Wealthy people can buy their right to rights. One of these is the privilege of not abiding by all the laws.

All the other people, are too busy trying to assert their rights. They have to assert because they have insufficient money to buy the right to a right.

So,
When you say to these people, "stop polluting the planet!", their reaction is to assert their right... to NOT be bossed around, by you or anyone else. They don't register what you're actually saying!

Do you get it?

Nobody tells them what to do and what not to do!

That's why they keep on fucking nature and burning the planet, the neighbourhood, the forests and the trees: nobody told them not to!

"They want more for themsleves...

and less for everybody else."

That was George Carlin (on "Who Owns You)".
He dead.
He dead the day before yesterday, or summat round there. He was 71.
A very interesting man, amazingly outspoken and undeniably interesting and invariably funny. Hilarious at times! I could just dumb-sit watching a TV screen & laugh like an idiot. It's not that I wanted to clap knowingly at the irreverent truths he would (dare) express -- it's that, too, but that's a bit conventionally stereotyped. No, it's the plain hilarity of some of the things he said and the way he said them.

So why pick that quotation above? Because it is the only time I know of, where I would venture a rephrasing.

Here's what I propose:
From,
"they want more for themselves and less for everybody else" to
"they want so much more for themselves that there's not enough to go round... So they've got to take some of yours -- what else can they do? It's not personal".

Have fun, mate, wherever you may be! Enjoy. And bash all those pretentious, self-serving, plutocratic, smug spirits out there, too.

Thinking of Politicians

...and the endless complaints (by constituents) once said politicians get into power.

(The picture has nothing or something to do with the subject. Which of the two, and why, is left to your creative spirit.)

Politicians are elected on the strength of their "elective appeal" i.e. their propensity to,
a) convince party apparatchiks that they are worthy to be on the party's bandwagon,
b) convince enough voters to cast a vote for them;

and NOT
c) because they are highly qualified and rarely competent talent ready to perform tasks other than the above.

If we want to have people who can manage the country, we should look for managerial clout and experience, and a proven experience... not politicians.

After all how many global corps fight over giving a politician a functional job? CEO? OK, sales rep is OK, no doubt. But then, an ex military also makes a good sales rep -- and cheaper. And usually, better disciplined and much harder working...

Bad news...

Late in the day before yesterday, a good friend lost his father. He too, just joined the "next in line" club.
We all become members of this club, some sooner and some later...
It has got me thinking about "life": life used to be about fun and about having fun. This is nothing new.
Many of us would have been glad to continue this life -- but life itself wishes otherwise. Life insists on getting serious. The differences are unsettling and uncomfortable and demanding; they require us to look for new meanings and to find new truths.

And Truth is rarely pure and never simple*. For some, or for all.



*O. Wilde

Too late, baby...

It looks like the earth is slowly giving up. It also looks like we are not giving up -- destroying, that is. Because after all, things will sort themselves out in the end. They always do. Even when they don't -- but we'll be all dead by then and it will be other peoples' nightmare.

Our children's nightmare to be precise.
But it's going to be all right...

Our children have worldly possessions we all worked so hard to give them. I for one had to marry into money. Our next door neighbours had to help International Aid suppliers with political kickbacks...

Earth & nature have in their possession all those words and speeches about protecting and saving them. We worked very hard to say and write those words. After so many words, you would think that nature would get its act together and stop being suicidal!

I hope it's not a case of diminishing resistance: that nature is giving up with ever increasing speed....
Things go downhill very quickly after that.

What I hate most of all is this: the earth is dying and there's no-one to blame but me. And you of course, but that does not help. You are me.