Are You Voting?
In last week's column we considered the principle of confronting issues head on, the right and responsibility afforded all stakeholders.
The opportunity in the methodology reveals the condition of most when confronted with the problem intensity and the increasing ardor of solutions making.
Attitude may fuel good starts, but a commitment to working through solutions over the long haul is more critical to results.
Is such commitment in us; and do we have the interest and pioneer attitude of community settlers to pull it off? These and other questions tug at our sense of pride though not our sense of duty.
They expose the model of convenience that keeps us from getting our hands dirty in the affairs of community, and they confront our habitual tracking-building "good neighbor fences", and more ordinances - to keep people from doing things they would agree not to do were they better connected to the community, and they encourage us to hide from each other at home and in the workplace.
We care about alternative energy sources because it hurts at the gas pump and we recognize no leadership at the forefront of research and discovery initiatives.
Our current spending model raises consciousness over spending in general, but money is not the problem in government or industry.
On one side of the isle is the view that government not spend money in place of commercial initiatives, and on the other side is the view that it (government) jump start commercial activity.
And never the twain shall meet.
Industry is much the same; with falling revenues and narrowing margins companies must conserve cash to keep the doors open.
But too many employees see no farther than their own interests and hard work, arguing for more resources than their organizations can afford.
Hard work is admirable, but solutions bring results.
As BP struggled to clear the Gulf mess it failed to embrace government encouragement and assistance, clearly operating on NIH (not invented here).
Yet, an unlikely resource in Steven Chu, Energy Secretary and Nobel Prize winner in Physics suggested high-energy gamma rays as a way of looking down the throat of the BOP (Blowout Preventer) to identify the malfunction and the ultimate root to the solution.
California's Prop 14 may be the result of peak frustrations in citizens over poorly managed state affairs, but it calls upon all citizens to vote (pure democracy) for candidates who are absent the primary wrangle.
The result will be to diminish the bipartisan gridlock, toward more capable candidates regardless of political persuasion.
Simply, they vote! In the battle for hearts and minds we find people suffering form "tepid toe syndrome.
" They will not see themselves as critical or even necessary to the process of good decision-making, or steel themselves through commitment for the long haul.
Instead, they hide behind hard work and the dedication that sweat beads confirm to find comfort in being overwhelmed.
As they throw up ceremonial hands, as though to suggest there is no more to give, they miss the fact that none around them reveals the ugly truth of the matter-if you don't give more, who will? The companies we work for belong to us.
If the notion is strange to you consider the alternative: a workplace in which others just tell you what to do and where individual contributions (even in teams) are blunt instruments in a constrained environment of little or no real movement-the very thing (individual contribution) that attracted us to the company at first sight.
Daily we vote our preference in an effort to form our identities, to matter to the community around us.
The risk in it may be to expose oneself to others who may disassociate from us after discovering the differences between us.
But at what cost to a world that needs to hear that very preference in its march to build consensus? If our ballot casting keeps neighbors at bay, co-workers from intimacy, and the workplace from the valuable contributions of unique individuals, little can be accomplished by joining as organizations.
Every family, church, local government, and civic organization takes sustenance from responsible, committed people.
It's the vote we cast in all the things we do, and which makes all things move inevitably toward the goal in results.
It is where one plus one makes five.
Ultimately, it is the notion in the phrase; "I must do something" that always solves more problems than "Something must be done," and delivers desired outcomes.
The opportunity in the methodology reveals the condition of most when confronted with the problem intensity and the increasing ardor of solutions making.
Attitude may fuel good starts, but a commitment to working through solutions over the long haul is more critical to results.
Is such commitment in us; and do we have the interest and pioneer attitude of community settlers to pull it off? These and other questions tug at our sense of pride though not our sense of duty.
They expose the model of convenience that keeps us from getting our hands dirty in the affairs of community, and they confront our habitual tracking-building "good neighbor fences", and more ordinances - to keep people from doing things they would agree not to do were they better connected to the community, and they encourage us to hide from each other at home and in the workplace.
We care about alternative energy sources because it hurts at the gas pump and we recognize no leadership at the forefront of research and discovery initiatives.
Our current spending model raises consciousness over spending in general, but money is not the problem in government or industry.
On one side of the isle is the view that government not spend money in place of commercial initiatives, and on the other side is the view that it (government) jump start commercial activity.
And never the twain shall meet.
Industry is much the same; with falling revenues and narrowing margins companies must conserve cash to keep the doors open.
But too many employees see no farther than their own interests and hard work, arguing for more resources than their organizations can afford.
Hard work is admirable, but solutions bring results.
As BP struggled to clear the Gulf mess it failed to embrace government encouragement and assistance, clearly operating on NIH (not invented here).
Yet, an unlikely resource in Steven Chu, Energy Secretary and Nobel Prize winner in Physics suggested high-energy gamma rays as a way of looking down the throat of the BOP (Blowout Preventer) to identify the malfunction and the ultimate root to the solution.
California's Prop 14 may be the result of peak frustrations in citizens over poorly managed state affairs, but it calls upon all citizens to vote (pure democracy) for candidates who are absent the primary wrangle.
The result will be to diminish the bipartisan gridlock, toward more capable candidates regardless of political persuasion.
Simply, they vote! In the battle for hearts and minds we find people suffering form "tepid toe syndrome.
" They will not see themselves as critical or even necessary to the process of good decision-making, or steel themselves through commitment for the long haul.
Instead, they hide behind hard work and the dedication that sweat beads confirm to find comfort in being overwhelmed.
As they throw up ceremonial hands, as though to suggest there is no more to give, they miss the fact that none around them reveals the ugly truth of the matter-if you don't give more, who will? The companies we work for belong to us.
If the notion is strange to you consider the alternative: a workplace in which others just tell you what to do and where individual contributions (even in teams) are blunt instruments in a constrained environment of little or no real movement-the very thing (individual contribution) that attracted us to the company at first sight.
Daily we vote our preference in an effort to form our identities, to matter to the community around us.
The risk in it may be to expose oneself to others who may disassociate from us after discovering the differences between us.
But at what cost to a world that needs to hear that very preference in its march to build consensus? If our ballot casting keeps neighbors at bay, co-workers from intimacy, and the workplace from the valuable contributions of unique individuals, little can be accomplished by joining as organizations.
Every family, church, local government, and civic organization takes sustenance from responsible, committed people.
It's the vote we cast in all the things we do, and which makes all things move inevitably toward the goal in results.
It is where one plus one makes five.
Ultimately, it is the notion in the phrase; "I must do something" that always solves more problems than "Something must be done," and delivers desired outcomes.
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