Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Decline in moral management?

- 1468    -  The decline in  moral management.  Here are 3 reviews written over the past decade.  The trend is disturbing:
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-----------------  “Management” “Morals“:  -------------  written in 2000  --------------------
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-   “Management” in the broadest sense, anyone responsible for people or money.  “Morals” in the narrowest sense.  Do good to others as you would do for yourself.
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-  In my 40 years observing and being part of management I have witnessed a decay in moral management.  You can substitute politics for management but I did not pay much attention to politics in my early years.  I did see the cultural decay in business first hand.
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-  To make my point I will polarize my statements, call yesterday my first 20 years and call today my last 20 years.
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-  Yesterday trust and integrity were thought to be essential for business success.
-   Today trust and integrity are hard to find in Big Business, or politics.
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- Yesterday managers said what they would do and did what they said.
-  Today managers say one thing and do another.  They say what ever you want to hear.  They are careful to say what is politically correct, regardless of true intentions.
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- Yesterday managers always had 2 decisions, what to do, then how to do it.  Both what and how were equally important.
- Today managers think the end justifies the means.
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-  Yesterday managers were so conservative with money they chose accounting rules that were almost worst case.
- Today managers choose anything within the stretch of rules to make things look good (often breaking the rules).  It is better to look good than to do good.
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-  Yesterday managers were in it for the long term, generations.
-  Today managers are in it for their next pay check, the next quarter, the next bonus.
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-  Yesterday managers viewed employees, stockholders, and customers as their most important business assets.
-  Today managers view them and the voters as simpletons that are more easily manipulated than educated.
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-  Of course, things are not this black and white like I have written, but they are gray and American culture has decayed in moral management.  Leaders like yourself, directors, teachers, and all managers need to police themselves and their fellow managers.  Ultimately, people deserve the government they get.  Policy makers, governors, need to regain trust and integrity.  We must do better for a better America.  Culture is hard to change but show me you are on the right road for change.
-------------------------- -  Witten in 2008  ------------------------------------
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-  The loss of moral leadership.
-  We always have 2 decisions to make: What to do and How to do it.
-  Obamacare has a nation’s support as to what to do.  What needs to be done for the betterment of all its citizens.
-  Obamacare has not made good decisions on “how” to do it..
-  One is effectiveness - do the right things.  The other is efficiency - do things right.
-  We would not have smart phones today if the government had broken up the phone company and replaced it with a government run bureaucracy.
-  A politician eventually swears to uphold the Constitution.  I think we should amend the Constitution to include the 10 Commandments.  Then, maybe, politicians would learn what swearing means.
- Lying, cheating, and stealing is a loss of moral leadership.
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-----------------------------  written in 2012   -----------------------------------------
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-  Here is an update surveying the political scene,  retired and out of the business scene:
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-  Today politicians view lying as necessary to achieve their intentions.  Leaders today would prefer to have no rules at all.  Truth can be abandoned to preserve the ultimate goals.  Or, the end justifies the means:  Examples:
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-  Wendy Davis of Texas fabricated her auto-biography to make herself look better in front of voters.  When she was challenged on her fabrications on the campaign trail she never apologized for lying, simply admitting her “ language should have been tighter”.  Voters prefer tighter fabrications.  Wendy apparently believes her progressive agenda is the “truth” and it is ok to tell the lies to neutralize her critics.
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-  Senator Elizabeth Warren claimed she was a Native American in order to promote her career.  She was ok with lying as long as it served the greater good of social change.
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-  Obamacare was full of lies, but for the Democrats that supported the lies claiming the good intentions of universal health care are the only “ truth” that matters.  Politicians can offer competing narratives that have no relationship to objective truth.  Facts are irrelevant.  The best lies win.
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-  When Senator Hillary Clinton heard the facts about the Iraq surge from General Petraues she reacted with a “ suspension of disbelief”.  Just fighting the war was the lie.  Any facts that supported it were irrelevant.
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-  She never changed her mind as Secretary of State concerning the murders of her employees in Benghazi she proclaimed, “ What difference does it make?”
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-  Susan Rice never apologized for her claims that Benghazi was a spontaneous demonstration about a video produced in the U.S.  Lying was acceptable if it helped a progressive president be re-elected.
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-  James Clapper claimed N.S.A. does not snoop on American citizens.  That lie had good intentions to silence Obama’s critics.
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-  Even President Obama claimed his autobiography was not containing untruths just “composites”, whatever that means?
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-  Outside of math and science there are no “truths” anymore.  Today” whatever” is “ it depends”.  It becomes truthful if it serves the cause. It is all relative.
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-  I wish we could give the next Attorney General the power to wash every politician’s mouth out with soap if a indisputably caught in a lie.  My mother taught me that the most valuable part of my education was “trust”.  Without trust you will get nowhere!  Maybe she was talking about heaven?  Americans deserve the government they get.
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