Loss of Good Leadership
Achieving a certificate in the Center for Creative Leadership’s Leadership Development Program, I have to ask, as Lee Iacocca did in his 2007 book, where have all the leaders of America gone? Why don’t we have common sense with leaders who know how to achieve consensus and are such cowards they only want to win and tell everyone how to live life?
One source claims ritilin is the problem. The use of ritilin pushes people into a corner where there is such a slothful attitude, they are never inspired to grab the bull by the horn, place heads together, find the best practices necessary to achieve the best solutions which help elevate as many people as possible to success through confidence. According to some sources, ritilin stops this from happening. In fact, sources claim that someone like Teddy Roosevelt would not exist today because they would be slumbering too much from ritilin. Speak softly and carry a big stick is replaced by “I must win, I must win, I must win, I must win… and who cares how many people get hurt in the process.” Teddy Roosevelt considered our society and economy, not how much Rockefeller or J.P. Morgan or Carnegie could grab from other good Americans who were attempting to succeed. Ritilin would have stopped TR.
Another way of making the point of “speak softly and carry a big stick” is the words, “be fair but fair.” But don’t believe me when I say this approach works. After all, I don’t take ritilin, so to hell with me.
What have million dollar sports players achieved after retiring from their sport? What is the benefit from all we are FORCED to pay for those salaries, even when many of us never watch the sports channels?
And the statement, “it doesn’t matter whether one wins or loses, but how one plays the game,” is being replaced by “we must each one win and remember that the end justifies the means.” I despise Machiavelli and this statement. I despise the Trump regime because of this statement and hope for the demise of the Trump regime and now.
What can we do to develop good leadership? Get rid of ritilin and the stupidity of too many psychologists who think anger is something we never should do. It is just another form of human emotion. But let us also teach moderation in everything, even if it means destroying rules which rob people from working in ways to keep moderation in everything being done. This applies to sex, alcohol, drugs, prostitution, gambling. And yes, even for something like consensual recreational sex or even masturbation. If people were not made to feel like sinners when they masturbate, then perhaps there would be less need for forcing sex on other people when there is no consent. Better to have consent to masturbate than to force one’s way, like the Man-baby forces his way on everything, in having sex, otherwise known as rape.
Civility not barbarism. We need leaders who help create best practices for elevating Americans to confidence and success in life. Bon Jovi’s song says a great deal. “I just want to live while I’m alive.”
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Mr. Iacocca, perhaps I am not wealthy enough to be allowed to make conclusions. Perhaps I have not made it to the top of the heap, as others have done, so I am simply a stupid intellectual to be ignored.
Nevertheless, my recent reading of essays about the wealthiest persons in the world, Andrew Carnegie, I may have stumbled across the answer to the question you posed in your 2007 book, Where Have all the Leaders Gone?
Andrew Carnegie believed CEOs of corporations had to learn what work ethic is and that those who inherited wealth don’t know what true work ethic is. Therefore, these people should not lead. They become false models for those who work for them. The problem of work ethics lies not in the workers, but in the leaders.
In order to fix this idea of “work ethic,” the late Kenneth Lay and other living stupid leaders force the Ayn Rand “ethics” or “virtues” of selfishness and greed – espoused by Greenspan and Paul Ryan – upon employees like a communist leader or the pope, elders of Mormonism, and the late Jerry Falwell of the Southern Baptists (and other leaders) claim there is “utopia” if people only follow one way of thinking.
There is no objection to the role greed and selfishness played in the rise of the poor son of Scottish Presbyterian immigrants, wealthy tycoon, Andrew Carnegie, to the accumulation of massive amounts of wealth (when considered for the days he lived). There is no denying statements by 18th-century economist, Adam Smith, in the claim capitalism should be free of interference. But to embrace ONLY these statements to validate Ayn Rand’s irrational thoughts about “virtues” or Barry Goldwater’s irrational statements about greed – there is a virtue in NOT “compromise” – is absurd.
Mitt Romney admires Goldwater’s nonsense “virtues” and Paul Ryan admires Rand’s nonsense “virtues.” Both fly in the face of one of the wealthiest men in the world. Andrew Carnegie also believed the wealthy have a duty to society.
Mr. Carnegie lived at a time when unions had not been established, so he agreed with the others in his management cronies. They were all against unions. But his reasoning was based on the fact that HE insisted he never had any assistance (or so he claimed – and he is wrong) to earn his wealth. A teacher had assistance from my mother, became wealthy and departed from the teaching profession, and then spurned my mother. How many wealthy ones like him disavow the assistance they received from peons along the way? Thus, it is right for unions to provide assistance to those who don’t have it. The problem, as you point out in your book, Mr. Iacocca, is when unions become as unreasonable as the wealthy CEOs have also become.
Romney received help from Daddy. Paul Ryan had an attorney as a father who likely made more money than teachers. George W. Bush had assistance from his daddy and made a LOUSY leader (as pointed out in your book, Mr. Iacocca). These are all lousy leaders who have inherited wealth.
Barack Obama worked his way up. Joe Biden worked low-paying blue collar jobs as he worked his way to the top. By Andrew Carnegie’s standards, the choice is clear. Obama and Biden.
Perhaps there are some detected levels of imperfections in these two guys. Perhaps the same can be said about Andrew Carnegie, too. When these two guys “step on toes” of others – as Romney / Ryan do all the time – the roar of Fox Noise is deafening. My bet is that Andrew Carnegie never had that kind of sabotage, but even if he did, his extreme wealth could shut it down immediately.
The problem lies in racism, too. After all, who are the guys who have likely inherited the wealth today? Stupid white men who carry a hidden objection to African Americans or Hispanics working their way to the top. Deceptive men (and women?) who live in denial of their hidden racist attitudes. And yes, there might be disappointed good white Anglos who are passed over, due to affirmative action. But why do these idiots continue to vote for stupid white men like Bush, Romney, and Ryan, rather than work together with those who recognize the value of diversity? Actually, I have heard African Americans, perhaps familiar with Andrew Carnegie’s success, who have spoken out against affirmative action, too.
Where have all the leaders gone, Mr. Iacocca? Perhaps this blog provides some answers. But who the hell am I? Nothing but horse shit, don’t you know?
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