Money makes the world go round. It’s one of the main causes of divorce and, right now especially, is on everyone’s mind.
I tend to agree with George Bernard Shaw that “Lack of money is the root of all evil.” That or an insatiable desire for more and more of it.
Way back in 1877, Russell H. Conwell said, “Money is power, & you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.” The problem these days is that people substitute ‘all out’ for ‘reasonably’.
I don’t know who said the following or if they are just folk wisdom, but they certainly are accurate.
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Sometimes it seems as if the economic crisis is acting like an earthquake that’s turning over rock after rock and all kinds of icky things are crawling out much to our dismay. A few months ago I wrote about the mindset that seems to be so prevalent these days.
“These days” aren’t all that recent whereas the executive bonuses causing so much rage are just a blip.
Enron was eight years ago as was the phen-phen settlement rip-off, although the two lawyers were only convicted this week.
For decades, the Feds have been scamster heaven and that hasn’t changed, “about 32 percent of …read more

There are many lessons to be learned from the current economic crisis, but one of the most important is that we the people should stop following and start leading ourselves.
In other words, we each need to take responsibility for our own actions and think critically about the words and actions of those in positional leadership roles.
In business, we need to rid ourselves of the idea that positional leaders don’t need management skills or that managers don’t lead.
Jim Stroup points out in numerous posts that “No one has proven that leadership is different from management, much less that it is a …read more

 
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It is the rare leader who leads beyond what is expected of him.Those who do are often labeled as unfit to lead and dismissed.
There are not that many examples of such rare leaders.  General MacArthur was certainly one.  He stood up to President Truman, who was quite happy to play at war in Korea without winning it, which cost many thousands of lives for no real gain.  Gen. MacArthur’s dismissal by the President was a terrible blow to his honorable record of service throughout World War II, an embarrassment to the Army he commanded, and the beginning of an approach …read more