On the words and wisdom of Lt. Col. Ralph Peters:

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Bull Sullivan

…About Barack Hussein Obama.

On the words and wisdom of Lt. Col. Ralph Peters:

…About Barack Hussein Obama.

Why is it inappropriate to call “a spade a spade,” oops, I mean to call “The Wiz” a “Pussy?” I know The President has fathered two children, so I assume he’s not “too gay” but hey, I wouldn’t want him in my locker room, and I sure as… I as sure as hell wouldn’t leave my children with him overnight… I mean when a man acts as if he is a cross between Michael, and here’s his really delusional notion, between Michael Jordan and Abe Lincoln when in fact he is a cross between Michael “Moondancing” Jackson and Vladimir Lenin… well, what can be said about his masculinity? (Lenin was known to dislike women, which is probably why one shot him.)

Follow Obama to Hell and Back? Follow Obama up a Hill? I wouldn’t follow him into a Rest Stop men’s room. I have more respect for the Kingfish, no, not the Louisiana populist Huey Long, I am referring to the Kingfish character on the “Amos and Andy Show,” than I have for President Obama.

So are we just supposed to call “The Wiz” a wuss? While I respect the Office of the President, I have no respect for this pointy headed half-bred who has sold out both halves of his racial identity for eight years of his “fifteen minutes of fame.”

Of course, he has been phenomenally successful in performing his part in the destruction of the Republic. The Euroamerican Left, unsuccessful in electing any left leaning Caucasian to the Presidency, cleverly deduced that the malaise of the Caucasian Middle Class and the disenchantment of Negro and Latino Lower Class would present an opportunity for elective success, if only they could “produce” a not “too black,” not “too known” candidate, and herein fate (or the wrath of God) stepped in, and the child of an African Negro Anarchist father and a confused, neurotic Caucasian Communist indoctrinated mother appeared, one Barack Obama, neighborhood organizer,  Illinois State Legislator and US Senator with unimpugnable if somewhat sketchy credentials, and Voila! The Press fondles him, 99% of all Negroes vote for him, a majority of Latinos love him, and the opposition party runs a stick figure as its candidate, and suddenly a light skinned, mixed race virtually unknown and certainly unvetted  social democratic ideologue is elected President.   Eureka! The left has finally found the formula for the beginning of the end of The Republic!

And aside from the policy and perception havoc The President has raised with friends and allies over the past seven years, what he has done domestically, under the mentoring of Valarie Jarrett and George Soros, et al, is worthy of commendation and the First Class Order of Lenin. You see, successful revolutions need social turmoil, economic distress and, most of all, an underclass without hope; a large number of dissatisfied young men, and woman, who see no way to achieve the wealth and prosperity of their “BOSSES” without taking it by force, or even better, if possible, by political legerdemain. And what better to insure that the disturbing “Black Lives Matter” street movement becomes a radical militant movement than to allow thousands of  Arab “agents provocateurs” into the country, salted strategically through-out it as students or workers or refugees. And the electoral hope of Negro Americans?  Who better to fill the ranks of the oppressed and disadvantaged than  the millions of Negroes who have seen their middle class struggle and shrink, their poorest’s  poverty increase, their children suffer from sub-standard schools and teaching, and even fewer jobs and opportunities present themselves.

The Left, pretty smart, n’est pas? Gosh, I wish I was a delusional conspiracy theorist, I’d write a book or two about what’s going on, sotto voce, under the noses of elected officials and the electorate as a whole, but then I’d just be another “angry” virile white male making money off the masses; in this case, mostly  conservative crackers and fearful white Republicans;  and while busy traveling, speaking and managing  my money I wouldn’t have time to pray, as much as we, I and you, need to pray every day.

Oh yes, that would be “REAL” prayer, addressed to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Joseph, and His Son, Jesus Christ. No prayers to phony half-assed human demigods, none to incorporeal natural spirits, none to misappropriated deities defiled by a violent, puerile and tumescent Arab prophet, no prayers to cow loving meditators of the sublime, or to back rubbing spiritualists communing with “haints,” or to deities oozing from swamps, springs or tree sap. No prayers to Pagan idols, none to dead and buried ancestors. Nope, just praying to the One True, Eternal and Holy and really “pissed off” God, and we’ve read in the Book, and already know, what He will do, if we don’t change our ways to His way, and damn soon.

NO liberals were harmed in the preparation of this politically incorrect rant, which is possibly perfectly true.

 

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Fourteen September Elevenths have passed…

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Bull Sullivan

As with many, I have had thoughts of regret and sadness today, and anger against Islamist’s and have seen numerous images of these towers, from towering icons to smoking rubble, but I have missed again today what I first missed 14 years ago, and on every anniversary since… profound disgust at a Federal Government that allowed this to happen, that failed to keep innocent citizens safe, that made excuses, denied guilt, shifted blame, and finally made war to distract from its negligence, incompetence, and perfidy.

That bumbling, laughable Saudi schemer and terrorist, Bin Laden, was not responsible for the death of these three thousand Americans; yes, he was the immediate cause of their deaths, but the responsibility for each of these dead Americans lays strictly with the bloated, dysfunctional and unrepentant Federal Government, swollen with debt, languishing in bureaucracy, paralyzed with partisanship and blinded by the ambition of manipulative amoral men, venal egotists seeking only to consolidate and perpetuate personal power and political influence.

There can be no excuse for failing to exercise the most important responsibility of the State, the protection of its citizens for foes foreign and domestic, and on September 11, 2001, the Federal Government failed on both accounts.

In my judgment, the last three American Presidents have individually been the most inept, vacuous and malingering sociopaths to ever hold the Office, and have, all three, consistently acted in the most inimical, pernicious and seditious manner, each with the sole objective of personal aggrandizement, without regard as to the consequences of their personal behavior, their poorly constructed political, economic, and social policies, their lack of moral suasion or the influence of the same on the body politic, and in fact on the world as a whole.

Sacrificing our nation’s blood and treasure, killing tens of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, pandering to the lowest common electoral denominators, race and wealth, and suborning Congress and the judicial to violate the Constitution tolerating the murder of millions of humans and creating constitutional “rights” out of whole cloth and removing God from governance, all these acts are cowardly, seditious and traitorous.

Clinton was brought to trial under a bill of impeachment, for moral depravity, Bush should have been impeached for sheer stupidity, and Obama must be impeached for betraying the Constitution and subverting the Commonweal and abusing the powers of Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

The American People got it wrong in the aftermath of 9-11-01; they turned their anger outward toward a foreign foe, they blamed a backward nation of goat herders for the murdered Americans, they blamed a delinquent despot, a maniacal tyranny, a petty piss ant and bully… Afghanistan and Iraq… yet 18 of the 19 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, whose absolute monarch controlled OPEC and whose “Royal” family, thousands strong, owns billions of dollars of stock in American Corporations, and who heavily influences Big Banks and Wall Street.

And the fat, lazy denizens of the Capitol, your Congressmen and Senators, on whose watch the villainous act of terror, the death of thousands of innocents and destruction of the twin towers occurred, not one was turned out of office for such cause as surely existed, and all were enriched by the trillions of dollars appropriated to defense contractors, here and abroad, to defeat the terrorist and make the world safe again.

That didn’t happen either… and no one in Congress has paid the price of failure, paid down as it were by the men, women, and children in the towers on 9-11-01, and paid still, daily, in fresh blood and perpetual sacrifice of limbs, of body and mind, of normal lives by those whose struggle with the wounds of an unwinnable war, as futile a sacred sacrifice of honor and duty as was the war in Vietnam.

Three thousand people died horrifically before our eyes on 9-11-2001, yet everyday another blow against liberty and freedom of 300 Million American citizens finds it target. We are slowly being murdered by extra-judicial review by the Federal Courts, by laws and taxes passed by Congress, by extra-legal regulations allowed by Congress and confusingly written and gleefully promulgated by the Federal bureaucracy, by the unconstitutional intrusions and abuses of “Homeland” Security and the militarization of public safety and police departments across America, and by unfunded mandates and the burgeoning entitlements of permissive and amoral social and political policies of government functionaries and progressive Euro-American intellectuals and campaign donors and lobbyists.

Crying for those who died that bleak day in September, 2001 is sentimental and satisfying…

…Failing to cry-out in protest against and demanding the change of a government led by unscrupulous political hacks and well-heeled wealthy monetarists is the true tragedy of our time, for your silence will lead to the death of liberty and the impossibility of the pursuit of happiness. It has already cost the life of uncounted millions of unborn human beings, and soon, the state will ask for your life, trust me on this, and the forfeiture of your wealth to support “those less fortunate” who always vote the party line.

 

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“I’m doing the best I can… Are you?”

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Bull Sullivan

The article that follows is an introductory summary of my “Motivation Management, the Eesy Way Seminar,” presented in house at an aerospace company of which I was the Director of Commercial Products, and in other venues, circa 1977- 1993. And yes, I still believe that everyone does the best they can everyday, but we can always do better!

How many times have we heard someone say: “I’m doing the best I can!” How many times have we faced them in disappointment or even disgust and replied: “No, you’re not!” or “If that’s so, that’s pathetic!” or “You could have do a lot better!” or any other number of retorts that come to mind in anger or frustration. Whether we are speaking to our child, a co-worker or subordinate, I’m here to say we are wrong:  “They were doing the best they  could do”

Let me explain. The litany of responses I listed above, the endless number and  manner of criticisms we feel compelled to direct to that person who has disappointed us, failed to live up to our expectations or failed to accomplish a task we’ve assigned; they not only do no good, they are absolutely not true.

Listen to wisdom: “Everybody does the best they can every time.” I am going to repeat that, emphatically: “Everybody, child adult, man, woman, young or old, does the best they can every time.”

Your co-worker, the one you call a slacker, the one who never finishes what they start, the one whose work you often complete, they are doing the best they can.

Your child, the one whose room is a mess, whose grades are poor, who talks back and never pays attention, they are doing the best they can.

Your employee, the often tardy, sometimes surly hourly worker who always seems to “be in trouble” with you, co-workers, and customers, they are doing the best they can.

Your team member, the brilliant but unpleasant, the dumb but ingratiating, the callous and irritating, the “one with so much potential,” the one merely putting in their time until five PM, the one watching the clock, they are all doing the best they can.

If, as wisdom asserts, they are doing the best they can, could the solution to their lack of achievement, their lack of progress, their failure lie somewhere else?  Could it be that… you need to change, you need to understand human behavior just a little better than you do now, because frankly, you’re doing the best you can, and it’s not working.

Perception and expectation color if not create all our relationships. It is the nature of us to perceive each newly met human being first as ” Friend Or Foe (FOF).”  There is only one exception to this instinctive behavior, “Motherhood,” and I am not about to claim any understanding or expertise of this remarkable exception, other than to be thankful for it. I am one of  those about which it was often said “Only a mother could love….” For all other circumstances, believe me, just below the veneer of civilization, there lies a being who has evolved in fear of life or limb for eons, whose sense of smell and sensory acuity has been replaced by an acute discriminatory event, the seldom ignored, seldom changed “first impression.”  We respond viscerally to what we see and hear, overtly or subliminally to what we smell, to the first touch, be it handshake or hug, we instinctively decide which side of the FOF line the new acquaintance will fall, or if they will straddle the line until we know more about them.

The FOF line, the friend or foe line, is a powerful ever-present sensory demarcation line that exists in every initial experience we have with any other human, or for that matter, with any other animal we encounter.  This essay is not about that primal phenomenon, I mention it here to explain how we first develop expectations of behavior.

And do we ever develop expectations!   From the first sight of any human, we begin, subconsciously at first, and then with intent, to assign characteristics to that person. Even mothers do this with their babies! You or I do it with every new person we meet, and in fact, with every old acquaintance we see, every day. Assuming that we perceive them as a friend, we may expect friendship, “Will they like me” or if they are a new peer, “Will they work as hard as I do” or if they are a subordinate, “Will they do the job; will they fit into my team?”

Expectations are an inextinguishable part of human behavior. We form them based on our perceptions.  And they are often the most damaging element to forming and maintaining relationships.

Briefly, I want to examine that particular relationship that forms between employer and employee. It is critical on so many levels, and impacts so many events. Understanding how expectations undermine the nature of the relationship and how to avoid forming them, or at avoid acting on them, is the key to productivity and profitability. More importantly, you must come to the realization that “every employee has done the best they can!”

“That’s ridiculous!” you retort at that statement.  You can list 15 things the employee who popped into your mind, when you read that statement, could have done better. Answer me this, can you in any way alter the work which was done today, or yesterday, or last week or last month, by that employee? Can you make one more widget yesterday? Can you make one more sales call yesterday? Can they type one more letter yesterday? Can they undo that incredibly stupid accounting mistake…yesterday?

Of course, the answer is no, not you, or your company, or the Uncle Sam or even the Good Lord can, or in the Lord’s case will, change what happened yesterday.

If you want an employee to improve, the soonest they will start improving is tomorrow, and most importantly, that employee’s improvement must start with you!

The easiest and most cynical method of improvement is for you to lower expectations. I am not suggesting this, although this is society’s most common solution. Programs for improvement in social welfare, education, even entitlements like Medicaid and Social security all rely on this method of demonstrating “improvement,” and all are, by any objective, absolute standard, failures.

In fact, I believe that this is the usual and now ordinary way we deal with our children’s failures, our marriage failures, our personal lack of “success,” we lower our standards, we lower our expectations. Personal relationships share many of the characteristics of commercial relationships and are in many ways similar.  Here, however, we deal with you and your employee. Importantly, unlike our parents, we can choose who we hire. Here again, we often didn’t choose or hire the particular employee we brought to mind when I stated “every employee has done the best they could.” Suppose, in a small business, we had. This is a topic for another paper, another time, but obviously choosing the right employee, making the right hire is critical to your company achieving the goals it demands of itself.

Engagement, evaluation, education, encouragement, this is the EEEE process channel to employee achievement, or as I call it, “Eesy.” It’s eesy to build a  winning “team,” to be a championship “coach,” to be the leader you must become to achieve the results you know are possible.

Engagement is the method by which we select candidates and by which we hire them. Success in this initial and critical phase is the least costly to achieve. If done correctly, the candidate selected for hiring will be the best fit for the tasks required. Notice, I did not say the job required, but rather the task or tasks required for your company’s success.

Get over job descriptions, get into task descriptions. Job descriptions define what has taken place; task descriptions define what will need to occur, on an individual level, to achieve the goals that define success.

In a successful business, everything changes constantly but the employees. The job descriptions remain static, but the tasks required for success change, evolve, while those tasked with changing to meet the times, the new demands, are usually the same people. Engagement requires that we optimize our understanding of the value of adaptability, and recruit employees who don’t just “fill the bill” but appear to have the ability to improve the processes that define “filling the bill.”

Evaluation is the next phase of creating achievement.  You may or may not have had a hand in the engagement of the employee, but you are responsible for evaluating how to best use that new employee. If you have been sent a new hire by Human Resources to fill a “Job Description,” this is much harder, but still possible to achieve. In the bureaucracy of a government or union job, it may be impossible.  This is because of “job descriptions” and “work rules” that exist to benefit special interests. If you are an Eesy manager , you have already described your path to achievement of goals as a series of tasks requiring accomplishment, not as a collection of jobs. As an simplified example, to achieve a goal, it is necessary to accomplish 50 tasks. You have 10 employees, so each could be responsible for 5 tasks each. But which task to which employee, can one do eight easy tasks and another only one difficult task? Should some tasks be shared and others not?  Who is best at doing what? If you do not know who does what best, you could fail to achieve your goal, or fail to achieve it most efficiently. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of your employees. Learn what they do best, and what they do poorly. And always seek to have the right employee doing what they do best. It’s called leadership!

Education is the third phase of creating achievement. In the business world we call it training, but we really should use the terms often heard in elementary school. Mastering tasks, or task mastering. He has mastered fractions, she has mastered parsing sentences, and they have mastered choral. You can not go on to long division if you haven’t mastered the concept of fractions, you can not understand grammar if you can’t diagram a sentence, you can’t sing Mozart’s Requiem if you’ve never sung in a chorus. Whatever tasks you need to accomplish, analyze them, define the path, create hallmarks, and state clearly what is necessary for completion, for achievement.

Encouragement is the fourth step to achievement; motivation is created by continuous positive reinforcement of accomplishment. Your employee must share your knowledge of the tasks assigned, your vision of the goal and most importantly, clearly appreciate the value of their contribution. Your positive attitude and unquestioned willingness to help all employees be better at what task they necessarily must accomplish will assure achievement and success.

Always be positive; always seek to lift your team to its highest level of achievement. If you end your day firm in the belief that everyone has done the best they could today, you’ll find that tomorrow, they will do even better.

Let me close this paper with two observations: it’s team work that accomplishes great goals, “Just do It” is absurd, narcissistic crap. They just want you to do it, to buy the shoe! “Let’s do It” is a more honest and far superior motivational anthem, and will yield far greater results to a much greater purpose than a shoe line’s simplistic pitch.

The truth is that if you truly believe that your team could do better, that in the day that just passed, not every one did their best, look in the mirror. HR may not have “engaged” the right person, interviewing and testing may not have “evaluated” and identified that person’s strengths,  orientation, class work and OJT, may not have fully educated that person, but you have failed to manage, motivate, coach up, encourage that person to be the best they could be.

In business, the “whole” is greater than the sum of the parts, the collective experience is more memorable than individual experience, and the work of all together brings to each the highest personal achievement.

You are responsible for making sure you are correct in saying “ Everyone did the best they could today.” Your team will be responsible for that being said of you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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