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Look to your workplace, look around stores while
shopping, & observe how we drive to see the result. |
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Between 1962 and 1975, the Vietnam War
resulted in the killing of approximately 68,000 of America's most
brave and substantive men. These men possessed leadership skills and
courage. They would have become the management class of corporate
America. Instead, they died because they possessed these traits.
Hundreds-of-thousands more American men were returned to home maimed
physically and mentally. |
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By the mid-1970s, US corporations were
being managed by the remnants of the male population. These men had
avoided the draft and the culling known as the Vietnam War. |
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Beginning in the early 1970s every major
US corporation was impacted by affirmative action legislation that
mandated disregard for skills and experience when hiring. Instead,
minorities and women were openly given priority. Rather than skills
and experience being major requirements for hiring, applicants' race
and gender were made the predominate decisive factor. |
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In the 1970s many
universities discovered a new profit center: The MBA Program.
During the 1980s and 1990s, there developed a confluence of
affirmative action mandates and weakened management. MBA degrees
became the inexcusably neutral tool for use in hiring the
potentially more qualified. Then, school ratings overcame actual
learning and student skill levels. The MBA applicant's school
overshadowed the applicants' skills. Competition became distorted.
Salaries skyrocketed. |
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MBA degrees actually prepare people only
to become staid, passive mid-level accountants and managers, not
pragmatic top notch executives. |
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Successful entrepreneurs know that the
skills that they used to attain their success cannot be learned in
an MBA program. |
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Today corporate America is governed by
the product of affirmative action mandates: inept women and weak
men. The decisions made by these people and the subordinates they
select to implement their policies (when they have any) result in
today's American corporations being what they have devolved into. |
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An obvious example is Carly Fiorina, who
was handed the CEO job at one of the nation's preeminent
corporations, Hewlett Packard. Within two years she had destroyed
its reputation, its product line, and its morale. Within three years
of her firing, HP has returned to the forefront of global
corporations. |
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A
dean of one the nation's top business schools is consultant to
several of the nation's largest corporations. He attended good
schools and earned the degrees and awards commensurate with this
work. However, he has never worked as an employee or as an
entrepreneur. So how is he qualified for these advisory and teaching
tasks? Surely not from books alone...? |
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The American culture
is bereft of the rugged individualism, the creative management, the
pragmatism, the tough-minded wisdom intrinsic during America's
greatest successful growth period, 1776 to 1960. |
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Boys are no longer allowed to be boys
and no longer allowed to push outward to test boundaries. Boys
should be reprimanded by a wise and metered hand while being
instructed where they have exceeded boundaries and why they are
wrong. Prescription drugs modify their mind's chemistry and inhibit
their actions. Boys are labeled and stigmatized by their parents,
school authorities, and classmates with various contrived disorders. |
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Girls are no longer allowed to be girls.
No longer are they allowed to be feminine. Girls are instructed that
there are no boundaries. Their mothers promise that they are better
than boys. Girls are protected by school and parental forces from
any remnants of toughness that some wayward boy may exhibit. Girls
are labeled and stigmatized by their parents, school authorities,
and classmates with various contrived inabilities. |
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Our culture reprimands boys for being
boys and rewards girls for being boyish. |
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When these boys and girls reach physical
maturity, they have not yet been allowed to mature emotionally. They
have been provided personas that define them as one of many similar
women or men of their age. |
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It is no surprise that so many girls and
boys, after aging over decades, turn to themselves wondering
internally what they are, should be, and what is desirable in
friends and in a mate. As a result many confused women and men
choose the easy pathway. They stay with their own kind -- their same
gender. |
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When women and men are forced into
positions of responsibility they cannot cope. They do not know how
to decide what to do. They make decisions that demonstrate they are
still trying to push boundaries in order to learn what their limits
are. |
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In various contexts, therefore, they
continue to act in immature ways. |
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They -- both women and men -- drive
wildly, running red lights and stop signs, changing lanes with no
warning, turning left from the right lane and vice versa. |
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When shopping women and men push through
aisles searching for boundaries. They bump into other shoppers and
are discourteous, in anticipation of being told that they have
exceeded their boundaries. But after decades of exceeding boundaries
and not being reprimanded, they only continue to be rude and
aggressive. |
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In the workplace women and men are in
daily contests with each and all of their coworkers for the most
poorly dressed award. For a woman or man to dress in clean, neat
clothes of a somewhat more dressy style is to invite being
ostracized by one's peers. |
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America is paying the ultimate price for
its disregard of the meritocracy upon which she was constructed. The
ultimate price is being paid by Americans. |
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America's ruling class -- as politicians
have become -- are now selected from the dregs of non-performing,
inexperienced in all except criminal behavior, and most adept liars. |
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The remaining few real men have
determined that in order to survive they must tough it out on a
passive strike while waiting to be called into service when
desperate times hit. |