Wednesday, November 30, 2016
How to Select an American President: Progressive Insurrectionist
How to Select an American President: Progressive Insurrectionist: Americans today are ostensibly divided into different camps. There are different ways to define and segregate the audiences. While I conside...
How to Select an American President: My Worst Day as an American
How to Select an American President: My Worst Day as an American: I can't get over it, and won't accept it. Donald Trump's behavior and history are so morally corrupt that he cannot be tolerated...
How to Select an American President: Renewing Manufacturing America
How to Select an American President: Renewing Manufacturing America: A part of President-elect Donald Trump's plan to "Make America Great Again" includes focussing on making domestic manufacturin...
Renewing Manufacturing America
A part of President-elect Donald Trump's plan to "Make America Great Again" includes focussing on making domestic manufacturing competitive. Increasing competitiveness results from several things:
1. Restraining costs
2. Sustaining best product quality
3. Ensuring and enforcing fair trade rules
The government is about the business of creating an optimal environment in which individuals and their corporations can thrive. The government is about optimizing return on national resources. It is also about developing national resources including people and natural resources.
The modern paradigm governing public and private performance is called "triple bottom-line." That is, aggregate performance is measured in three dimensions:
1. Economic responsibility
2. Social responsibility
3. Environmental responsibility
In America, economic performance is a product of public and private partnerships. All government and business enterprises are corporations that are governed by laws and regulations. A President of the United States is the executive leader of the federal government enterprise and can modify, retire, and replace and eliminate laws and regulations subject to Congressional approval.
Otherwise, a President leads the effort to manage the business rules that govern all enterprises. Business rules that are embodied in laws and regulations carry a cost. They may also provide incentives for what is determined to be strategically positive performance. They include constraints and punishment for deficient performance.
In America, there is regulated capitalism. Unrestrained capitalism would have the business and industrial corporations maximizing profits and maximizing markets at the expense of clean air and water, for instance. They may produce products that compromise safety. History shows that is true. Therefore, laws and regulations are necessary to mitigate errant performance that may not be regulated by consumers alone.
Other instances of the necessity for government intervention in capitalism include worker health and safety. It includes protection for workers and their right to organize and express their contracts collectively.
The structure of business rules extend into the global environment and include consideration for finance and banking as well as the environment and competitive working conditions.
The modern paradigm is to pursue sustainable economies from the bottom up. That is, the challenge for local community viability is to achieve the justification for their existence by demonstrating value-adding worth in the greater context. Local performance is based upon local economic systems and networks among public and private enterprises.
Manufacturing products that are superior in market performance begins with unique and exceptional design, engineering, and production as well as logistics and distribution, marketing and sales.
Manufacturing products includes a pyramid of goods and services, leading to the final assembly of parts into finished products.
In my lifecycle of work experiences, I have been engaged in nearly every type of enterprise including all types of manufacturing. I have learned the strategic importance of having robust domestic manufacturing capabilities for several reasons:
1. The manufacturing industry is a primary source for progressive capability development and upward mobile opportunity for individuals including entrepreneurs and workers.
2. Manufacturing is strategically essential to national security because it ensures domestic skill, knowledge, experience, proficiency and capacity to produce a hierarchy of advancing technologies.
3. American industrial policy has permitted the dangerous erosion of manufacturing capabilities that includes the loss of knowledge and skills essential to competitive performance throughout all levels of the manufacturing and production processes.
Renewing Manufacturing America is, therefore, a strategic imperative.
1. Restraining costs
2. Sustaining best product quality
3. Ensuring and enforcing fair trade rules
The government is about the business of creating an optimal environment in which individuals and their corporations can thrive. The government is about optimizing return on national resources. It is also about developing national resources including people and natural resources.
The modern paradigm governing public and private performance is called "triple bottom-line." That is, aggregate performance is measured in three dimensions:
1. Economic responsibility
2. Social responsibility
3. Environmental responsibility
In America, economic performance is a product of public and private partnerships. All government and business enterprises are corporations that are governed by laws and regulations. A President of the United States is the executive leader of the federal government enterprise and can modify, retire, and replace and eliminate laws and regulations subject to Congressional approval.
Otherwise, a President leads the effort to manage the business rules that govern all enterprises. Business rules that are embodied in laws and regulations carry a cost. They may also provide incentives for what is determined to be strategically positive performance. They include constraints and punishment for deficient performance.
In America, there is regulated capitalism. Unrestrained capitalism would have the business and industrial corporations maximizing profits and maximizing markets at the expense of clean air and water, for instance. They may produce products that compromise safety. History shows that is true. Therefore, laws and regulations are necessary to mitigate errant performance that may not be regulated by consumers alone.
Other instances of the necessity for government intervention in capitalism include worker health and safety. It includes protection for workers and their right to organize and express their contracts collectively.
The structure of business rules extend into the global environment and include consideration for finance and banking as well as the environment and competitive working conditions.
The modern paradigm is to pursue sustainable economies from the bottom up. That is, the challenge for local community viability is to achieve the justification for their existence by demonstrating value-adding worth in the greater context. Local performance is based upon local economic systems and networks among public and private enterprises.
Manufacturing products that are superior in market performance begins with unique and exceptional design, engineering, and production as well as logistics and distribution, marketing and sales.
Manufacturing products includes a pyramid of goods and services, leading to the final assembly of parts into finished products.
In my lifecycle of work experiences, I have been engaged in nearly every type of enterprise including all types of manufacturing. I have learned the strategic importance of having robust domestic manufacturing capabilities for several reasons:
1. The manufacturing industry is a primary source for progressive capability development and upward mobile opportunity for individuals including entrepreneurs and workers.
2. Manufacturing is strategically essential to national security because it ensures domestic skill, knowledge, experience, proficiency and capacity to produce a hierarchy of advancing technologies.
3. American industrial policy has permitted the dangerous erosion of manufacturing capabilities that includes the loss of knowledge and skills essential to competitive performance throughout all levels of the manufacturing and production processes.
Renewing Manufacturing America is, therefore, a strategic imperative.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
How to Select an American President: Temperament vs Character
How to Select an American President: Temperament vs Character: Presidential historian, Doris Goodwin said to David Axelrod, "I think overcoming adversity is an extraordinarily important trait for a...
Temperament vs Character
Presidential historian, Doris Goodwin said to David Axelrod, "I think overcoming adversity is an extraordinarily important trait for a leader." She also described "the positive transformations some of our presidents underwent after being struck by tragedy -- FDR's polio made him feel more connected to people; Lincoln's bouts of depression made him more empathetic; Teddy Roosevelt's personal losses gave him needed perspective." Donald Trump had large financial losses that he overcame with help from the US tax code. Apparently, that counts.
In my new book, How to Select an American President by James George with James Rodger (c)2017, Archway Publishing, there is the consideration for presidential candidate behavior. Not being a psychologist, I defer to members of that profession for a certifiable profile of candidates, similar to what many corporations require when hiring high-level executives.
Goodwin is not a behavioral scientist either. What is the difference between "temperament" and "character?"
Temperament may be defined as the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition. If one reviews President-elect Donald Trump's history of temperament, you will discover a consistent pattern of disruptive behavior that is often mitigated with intervention and assistance of powerful people to cover and absolve his wayward mistakes. You can verify that yourself and may have witnessed such behavior during the campaign.
What is character? Character is the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing. To understand the composition of such things: qualities of honesty, courage, or the like; integrity, requires professional assessment.
"Character matters: Character dimensions’ impact on leader performance and outcomes
Gerard Seijts
Article (PDF Available) in Organizational Dynamics 44(1) · January 2015: DOI: 10.1016/j.orgdyn.2014.11.008
Abstract
In a recent commencement address at the Ivey Business School, Domenic Barton, the head of McKinsey Et Co.'s global consulting practice, said: "When we think about leadership we focus too much on what leaders do... and we don't spend enough time on who leaders are the character of leaders." Similarly, in a speech to Ivey students, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, said that "... to restore trust in banks and in the broader financial system, global financial institutions need to rediscover their values... Employees need a sense of broader purpose, grounded in strong connections to their clients and their communities." Few among the hundreds of C-suite leaders and board directors with whom we have discussed this topic in focus groups sessions, conferences, and executive development programs over the last five years, would disagree with them."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270397738_Character_matters_Character_dimensions'_impact_on_leader_performance_and_outcomes
Image from Salon.com
Monday, November 28, 2016
How to Select an American President: Trump is a propagandist
How to Select an American President: Trump is a propagandist: When the US President and his government engage in propaganda, what does that mean? First, propaganda is information, especially of a bias...
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