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not
clearsighted
nearsightedness; shortsightedness
eyesight
abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty
refractive ability
lack of discernment or
long range perspective in
thinking or planning
a visual
defect in which distant
objects appear blurred because their
images
are focused in front of the retina
rather than on it; nearsightedness
(what are
they thinking?!)
"If I were to sit down
with Al Gore, Elaine Kamarck, Jamie Gorelick and Chris Edley, I would expect
their explanations would involve more obfuscating policy discussions but it would ultimately come
down to a similar notion of going with the flow. As would the hundreds of
thousands of highly credentialed, well-paid Americans who have actively lead the day-to-day
implementation of policies that - when we
pierce the veil - are really dictated by
powerful private interests outside
of the law as most are conditioned to believe it to be. All these
policies and actions add up to
genocide - of our
families and communities and
of all living things, both throughout
America and around the world." - Catherine Austin FittsThe executive branch of the
government of the
United States of
America which is now being run by
executives recruited from
corporate
America, the
George W. Bush administration, has
failed to
perceive
reality clearly.
Chief Executive Officers,
Chief Financial Officers and all
executives must have certain personality
traits to succeed. One of these traits is the
ability to focus on a problem in an attempt
to solve the problem. If 'the problem' has been carefully
analyzed, all the
facts are known and there are sufficient
resources with which to address 'the
problem' then it is highly likely that 'the
problem' can be solved with the right action. On the
other
hand if 'the
problem' has not been carefully
analyzed, if all the
facts are not known, if the facts are erroneous or if the
resources are insufficient then it is likely that 'the
problem' cannot be
solved within existing parameters and
there is a very real possibility that
action taken to solve 'the
problem' will only
create greater problems - especially if the "players" are
dependent on "gaming the system."
The recent
corporate failures of Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing,
Tyco, Adelphia,
Long-Term Capital
Management, Kmart, Schwinn, Motorola, Rubbermaid,
Quaker Oats, Iridium,
Conseco, Johnson & Johnson, Sunbeam and
others bear witness to the
truthfulness of the preceding statement.
Corporate
failures stem from breakdowns in how
executives
perceive
reality, how the individuals
within an organization face up to
reality and how information and control systems
in organizations are managed.
To
perceive
reality correctly requires structured
self-reflection. To
perceive
reality correctly requires the ability to
overcome egocentric self aggrandizement. To
perceive
reality correctly requires one to feel
empathetic toward every individual that one's actions affect.
A failure
to perceive
reality clearly results in organizational
leaders adopting faulty
thought proccess'.
Thought proccess' which clearly declare
spiritual corruption - seen in the self-centered actions taken.
"CEOs are very pompous and they assume they are
right about everything." - Charles T.
MungerEvery single organizational procedure is subject to
break down in the real conditions under which a
coporation operates.
Executive mindset failure is at the root of most large-scale
corporate failures. Great
corporate
mistakes have at their
heart a
fundamental breakdown of managerial
reasoning and
strategic thinking.
Executives regularly send their
corporations off in completely wrong
directions or fail to
restructure them in the
way they should, because they have made
a fundamental error in the way they are thinking about the opportunities and
problems their business faces.
All of
the corporations listed above were
successful at one point and their
CEOs became superstar
celebrities. Unfortunately,
success bred arrogance in the CEOs of these
corporations and the
arrogance
blinded them to
reality - leaving them with spiritually corrupt
thought proccess'.
"A great deal of wreckage is caused by
boys behaving badly. The healthy ones
- well balanced
human beings in full
command of their alpha strengths - are
natural leaders who are trusted by colleagues,
respected by
competitors, revered by employees
and loved by Wall Street. But
other alpha males are risks to their
organizations - and sometimes to themselves." - Alpha Male Syndrome,
Kate Ludeman and Eddie Erlandson
Halliburton business dates back to
1919 when Erle Halliburton, a Tennessean, began lining oil well shafts with
cement to seal it from water contamination and cave-ins. Cementing is an
essential step in currently drilling wells -
and Halliburton dominates this
process of the oilfield business.
By 1981
Halliburton revenues had soared to
$8.5 billion, profits were $674 million, and
Halliburton employed more than
110,000 workers.
In August 1995,
Dave Lesar, who had spent 16 years at Arthur Andersen as the
Halliburton accountant and had no
experience operating a business, became CFO
of Halliburton.
Dick Cheney was hired
to run Halliburton in September
1995.
Dick Cheney, a career
politician with head
of state contacts, would serve as Halliburton's global salesman-in-chief as
Halliburton desperately needed more
work overseas. Within a year of his arrival,
Dick Cheney had fired Tommy Knight - a
respected 32-year Brown & Root
veteran - and named Dave Lesar as CEO of Brown & Root, in addition to his
duties as CFO of Halliburton.
In 1998 Halliburton payed
a $7.5 million penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission for
failure to disclose an accounting
change that allowed the company to hit its quarterly earnings
targets.
In February 1998 under the direction of
Dick Cheney
Halliburton made a $7.7 billion
purchase of Dresser Industries. Dresser, based in Dallas, was nearly as big as
Halliburton, with separate oilfield
and engineering divisions of its own. (The engineering business, M.W. Kellogg,
would be merged with Brown & Root to form Kellogg Brown & Root, or
KBR.)
"A win-win combination for both companies' shareholders,
customers, and employees. We went from being a second-tier, second-rank
energy-services company to being the biggest on Earth." - Dick
Cheney
Halliburton
bought Dresser near the top of the market, at a 16% premium. One of
Dick Cheney's first moves after the
deal closed was to cut 10,000 jobs.
Dresser faced 66,000 asbestos
claims, later escalated to274,000, dating back to a former Dresser subsidiary
in Pittsburgh, Harbison-Walker. Until the 1970s, Harbison-Walker had used
asbestos in industrial products it sold, such as insulating bricks and
coatings.
In 2002 Halliburton used a "prepackaged
bankruptcy," which allowed it to place just pieces of the company in Chapter
11, retain control of the business, and avoid
wiping out shareholders. In the end, the price tag for asbestos claims soared
to $5.1 billion.
Between August 2000 and February 2005
Halliburton reported net
losses of nearly $2 billion.
In February 2005 federal prosecutors were investigating how
Halliburton sidestepped U.S.
sanctions against doing business with Iran as well as a former KBR chairman's
alleged involvement in a Nigerian bribery scandal and
possible bid-rigging overseas.
Dick Cheney's net worth in 2005 was between
$17,120,041 and $79,588,010.
Halliburton under investigation for
bribery, bid rigging, defrauding the military and illegally profiting in Iran
is moving it's headquarters to the United Arab Emirates. The United Arab
Emirates has no extradition treaty with the United States. The United Arab
Emirates has not yet ratified the UN Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime.
"In 2007, America
finds itself at a moral and demographic
crossroads. It cannot expect the upper class to
provide strong moral leadership because
the upper class is filled with people who
work for Halliburton." - Joe Queenan
The executive
branch of the government of the
United States of
America in its rush to a 'war on terror' has
failed to analyze the problem
carefully, does not have all the facts, many
'known facts' have proven to be
erroneous and has
deluded itself if it
beleives it has sufficient resources to eliminate terrorism across
the face of the Earth. At this point in
time the
United States of
America has troops
stationed in Germany, Japan, South Korea,
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, what was once known as
Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Columbia, the
Philippines,
Iraq and many
others.
These troops are
stationed in these places to
protect the
syndicate of the soulless' vital
interests.
The United
States of America is attempting to
create hegemony on
Earth and they are doing it for one reason and
one reason and one reason alone. The Talmudists have taken
control of America.
"War is the most ancient method for keeping one's
people scared, unquestioning and
obedient, and it is
highly profitable for people who
make weapons. It was a historically
brilliant act for George W. Bush to
declare a global war
that he and his successors can extend for as long as
bombings and kidnappings
exist." - David Meadow
Why must
history keep repeating
itself?
History keeps repeating itself because there are always
greedy egocentric men. Greedy egocentric men gravitate to
positions of power because all they truly care
about is making other humans conform
to their ideal of a perfect world -
designed to shower them with
material wealth. The war on terror will never
end because there are not enough exorbitant
profits in simply running an economy to
provide for the welfare of the people
that make up the social
culture. As long as there are profits to be
made in war there will be
war!
Every
empire that has ever risen on
Earth has fallen in its rush toward
hegemony. Alexander the
Great's empire collapsed in fighting between his generals after his
death. The Roman empire
extended its influence until it
collapsed dividing itself
in two and then falling
separately. The Inca and Aztec empires
collapsed after contact with the
Spanish empire
which shortly thereafter rose to international prominence. After the
conquest of the world the over extended British
empire collapsed.
Where are these
empires now?
In this
century we have
had Germany and Japan strive for hegemony.
Germany lost because
they failed to conquer Russia.
Japan lost
because they failed to create hegemony in the
Pacific Ocean.
"If you are not with
us you must be against
us" might as well read "Bow down before me and
obey my commands".
For a
nation that proclaims itself as the birthplace of
freedom we are
sending a very convoluted and contradictory message
to the other
sovereign nations of Earth. Or do our leaders feel that our might gives us the
right to demand the
nations of Earth to
become our vassals? Osama bin
Laden avowed goal is to breakup
these United States of
America and the dreams of hegemony
carried by our leaders - agents of the syndicate of the
soulless.
The myopia that has engulfed the leadership of the
United States of
America
threatens the very
life of the these
United States of
America.
"In recent years , I have become increasingly concerned by a
host of radical government
policies that now threaten many basic
principles espoused by all previous
administrations, Democratic and
Republican.
These include the rudimentary
American commitment to
peace, economic and
social justice,
civil liberties, our
environment and
human rights.
Also
endangered are our historic commitments to providing
citizens with truthful information, treating dissenting voices and
beliefs with
respect, state and local autonomy
and fiscal responsibility.
At
the same time, our political
leaders have declared independence from the
restraints of international
organizations and have disavowed longstanding global
agreements including agreements on nuclear arms,
control of biological
weapons and the
international
system of justice.
Instead of our
tradition of espousing
peace as a national priority unless our security
is directly threatened, we have proclaimed a policy of "preemptive
war," an unabridged right to
attack other nations unilaterally to change an
unsavory regime or for other
purposes.
When there are serious differences with
other nations, we
brand them as
international pariahs and refuse to
permit direct discussions to resolve disputes.
Regardless of the costs,
there are determined efforts by top American
leaders to exert American imperial
dominance across the face of the Earth.
These revolutionary policies have been
orchestrated by those who believe that
America's tremendous power and influence should not be
internationally constrained.
Another disturbing
realization is that every
effort has been made to conceal or minimize public awareness of casualties in
the 'war on terror'.
Instead of cherishing our role as a great
champion of human rights, we now find
civil liberties and personal privacy grossly
violated under some extreme provisions of
the Patriot Act.
Of even greater concern is that
America has repudiated the Geneva accords and
espoused the use of torture in
Iraq,
Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
It is embarrassing to see the president and vice president insisting
that the Central Intelligence Agency
should be free to perpetrate "cruel,
inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment" on individuals in
American custody.
Instead of reducing America's reliance on
nuclear weapons and their
further proliferation, we have insisted on our right to retain our arsenals,
expand them, and therefore abrogate or derogate almost all
nuclear arms
control agreements negotiated during the last
50 years.
America has abandoned the
prohibition of "first use" of nuclear weapons against
non-nuclear nations, and is contemplating the deployment of
weapons in
space.
Protection of the
environment has fallen by the
wayside because of government subservience
to political pressure from the
oil industry and
other powerful lobbying
groups.
The last five years have brought continued lowering of
pollution standards at home and almost
universal condemnation of our nation's
global environmental
policies.
Our
government has abandoned
fiscal responsibility by unprecedented
favors to the rich, while neglecting America's working families. Members of
Congress have increased their own pay by
$30,000 per year since freezing the minimum wage at $5.15 per hour (the lowest
among industrialized nations).
I
am extremely concerned by a literalist shift in
many houses of worship and in
government, as church and state have become
increasingly intertwined in ways previously thought unimaginable.
As the
Earth's only superpower,
America should be seen as the unswerving
champion of peace, freedom and human rights.
America should be the focal point around which
other nations can gather to combat
threats to
international
security and to enhance the quality of our
common
environment.
We should be
in the forefront of providing human
assistance to individuals in need.
It is time for the deep and
disturbing political
divisions
within America to be substantially healed, with
Americans united in a
common commitment to
revive and nourish the
historic political and moral
values that we have espoused during the last 230
years." - Jimmy Carter, 39th president of United States of America,
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
"America was grossly
unprepared for the challenges we have faced since the fall of Baghdad in May
2003. The task of running a country of 25 million people was turned over
initially to the Office of Reconstruction and
Humanitarian Assistance, which had been created just two months before the
invasion. Then came the
equally slapdash Coalition Provisional Authority, which was so short of
resources that
soldiers joked that its initials stood for
Can't Provide Anything." -Max
Boot
"The most person in
corporate
America is the highly
enthusiastic incompetent.
He's running faster in the wrong direction, doing horribly counterproductive
things with winning enthusiasm."- Tay Kurtz
"George W. Bush's myopic
vision of how to defeat the terrorists has led us down the solitary
path to quagmire in
Iraq." - Avalon Hill
"I just presumed that what I considered to be the
most competent national-security team since Harry Truman was indeed going to be
competent. They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the
post-war era. The most dispiriting and awful moment of the
whole administration was the
day that
George W. Bush gave the Presidential
Medal of Freedom to George Tenet, General Tommy Franks, and Jerry
Bremer—three of the most incompetent people who've ever served in such key
posts."- Kenneth Adelman
"At times the creative imagination seems to work in isolation, when an
individual, impelled by some
uninstructed spark of originality, glimpses relationships or possibilities never seen before,
or devises forms of expressions never heard
before.Most often the creative
imagination does not flare in isolation.
Creative minds
stimulate each other, interaction and
competition have a generative
effect, sparks fly from disagreement and rivalry, and entire groups become
creative.
We
know something about how this happens - how
such creative groups have formed - in
art, in science, and in
literature; the same has happened in
politics, though in ways the average
citizen does not commonly
perceive. I do not mean
sudden turns in legislation or public
policy. I mean the recasting of the entire
sphere of power, the reformation of the
structure of public authority, of
the accepted forms of governance,
obedience, and resistance, in
practice as well as in theory.
The
creative reorganization of the sphere of
authoritative power has happened at various
points in history, but rarely as quick and
successful as the reorganization created by a
single generation on the eastern shores of North America two hundred years ago.
Convinced
of their moral integrity and the rightness of
the principles they wished to make
real - well informed but relying heavily on
their own local experience and
common sense - the Revolutionary
leaders believed that, as Thomas Paine put it, they had it in their
power to begin human culture anew.
In all of this there are broad implications. In the
most general sense, what stimulated the founders'
imaginations and hence their capacity to
begin human culture anew was the fact that they came from
outside the metropolitan establishment, with all its age-old, deeply buried,
arcane entanglements and commitments.
From their vantage point they
viewed the dominant order with a cool, critical, challenging
eye, and what they saw was something
atrophied, weighted down by its own complacent,
self-indulgent elaboration, and vulnerable to the
force of fresh energies and
imaginative designs.
Refusing to be intimidated by the
received traditions and confident of their
own integrity and creative capacities, they
demanded to know why things must be the
way they are; and they had the imagination, energy, and
moral stature to conceive of something closer to the grain of
everyday reality which would be more likely
to lead to individual and
collective human
happiness.
Americans have the need and the
opportunity to recast the
existing corrupt American
political culture.
Americans have the obligation, as inheritors of
the Founding Father's success, to view every
establishment critically, to remain in some sense on the margins, and
forever to ask why things must be
the way they are, that it is never enough to say they must be so, one
needs to know why."
- adapted
from Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew - Politics and the Creative Imagination
the achievement
drive A new study by Hay Group, June 19, 2006, shows a dramatic
rise in the achievement drive of business executives.
The desire to achieve is
a major source of strength in business - the
innate drive to continually improve performance or meet or exceed a standard of
excellence - has risen sharply among executives over the past decade. This period
of innovation and rapid business growth has coincided with a period also marked
by scandal and loss of confidence in
executive decision making, the dark side of this trend.
By relentlessly
focusing on tasks and goals, an executive
or manager can ultimately damage corporate performance. Overachievers
tend to command and coerce, stifling
subordinates which if unchecked can prove harmful not only to their own
careers, but also to the organizations they lead.
Overachievement often
results in ineffective, sometime unethical leadership of the organizational overachiever
who is driven to continually improve results—no matter how they are
accomplished.
Psychologist David McClelland identified three drivers of
behavior: achievement,
meeting a standard of excellence; affiliation, maintaining close relationships;
and power, having an impact on
others.
The
power motive comes in two forms: personalized, in
which the leader draws strength from
controlling people, and socialized, where the
leader derives strength from empowering
people.
Studies show that great charismatic
leaders are highly motivated by
socialized power. The
leaders who created high-performing and energizing climates got
more lasting results by using a broad range of styles, choosing different ones
for different circumstances. Rather than order people around, they provided
vision, sought buy-in and commitment, and
coached.
"Achievement has long been an important
ingredient in the recipe for individual, organizational, even national
success. In today's
uber-competitive environment,
it is fast becoming the performance enhancer of choice as more organizations
hire, promote, and reward achievement driven leaders.
But, be careful what you ask
for. It can backfire big time.
We've seen
highly ethical, well meaning
executives transformed into vicious louts who
behave very badly.
They focus on the end to the exclusion of the means and become
coercive and demanding,
destroying morale and motivation. The
really hard cases cut corners,
lie, even cheat, all in the name of
outstanding results." - Scott Spreier
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