Looking back on an old corporate culture is never the healthiest way to grow your business but there are lessons you have taken forward and there are delights to pontificate from past work environments in which you will never again be required to tolerate. When you call the shots, there are people you have left behind. There were those who gossiped incessantly. There were those who had a snooty disposition strutting a one upmanship display of ego. There were those who skipped basic training in etiquette. There were those who thought they knew so much but hadn’t read from a book of n0n-fiction in years. There were those who treated others indignantly and then sought respect. There were those who did the work and there were those peculiarly familiar with management.
The entrepreneur despises a corporate culture of dysfunction…so much so that if heeded positively can turn into a primary motivating force precipitating a life long journey of commercial liberty. “The pilgrims with Columbus did not board up on three ships and come to America to get a job.” – Dave Severn
I’m not really sensing that the Republicans are heeding the election results given the continuing saga of Washington gridlock. The U.S. is due to raise taxes on 98% of the populous come January 1, 2013 yet the perpetual feet dragging remains. The scuttle butt on Capitol Hill has everything to do the words of one diplomat on a Sunday talk show instead of a solution to this impending fiscal cliff. I suggest that these overpaid bickering politicians get off their rusty dusty and start solving the nations financial affairs because as of this day every man, woman and child owes less than friendly nations something in the neighborhood of $55,000 and counting every single day. Liberals will argue that this is sustainable. Right wing radicals will complain that the slightest tax increase to those earning over $250,000 per year will be a curse to the trickle down economic theory as espoused by them to be the magic bullet which will ultimately relieve the nation of its fiscal woes.
The political establishment and its cronies which spend too much time giving an ear to corporate lobby groups and too little time drafting simple common sense legislation that works are now in a quandary because the legislative houses are still split down the middle again with too little power granted the President as a tie breaking convener of the people. It’s ironic that every single U.S. politician I’ve ever witnessed who has commented on the founder’s intention and the mastery of the constitution has basked in the brilliance of the document but here sits a nation in financial peril with much blame assignable to Washington’s dysfunction at the legislative level.
Could the United States of America go broke? Is it already broke? What are the consequences of default? Is the monetary system as we know it going to collapse? There have been many bright alternative economic prognosticators who have been asking theses questions since the first noticeable uptick in the gold prices. Now it appears that the mainstream economic think tanks are finally starting to give credit to those who have been beating the drum of fiscal responsibility for years even prior to the Iraq war.
I’m currently reading James Rickard’s Currency Wars. This fellow had been retained by the CIA to conduct war games given the hypothesis of a destabilizing world monetary system.
It’s been very fun to learn ceroc in Calgary. Beginners are welcome to every class of this U.K form of modern jive every Monday up in the Thorncliffe community centre and at the Barn in Shawnessy on Tuesdays. Darren and Claire have a colorful history giving lessons back in England. Calgary is lucky to have them and you will too because ceroc can be danced to so many genres of music. It’s all predicated on an eight beat even count and there’s a tremendous variety of tunes that fits this rhythm. These easy going instructors promote basic patterns at the start of every session. Then there’s a breakout to more intermediate moves once the hall starts to whisper with the whirl of dancers gliding to the delight of select medleys prepared by Darren.
Come alone because partners rotate throughout the evening or bring that special someone whom will thank ye for a great night out.
As you know, at a “job”, they’ll only pay you the least amount it takes to retain you. Employees are on the wrong side of capitalism and they will never be paid what they are worth working for someone else. Blooming entrepreneurs are the ones at work that consciously ridicule the water cooler gossip. They are the ones that see problems as challenges. They are constantly looking for better ways to do things and get more productivity out of the day. Blooming entrepreneurs compete to win and stand front and centre in the face of adversity. They fight for what’s right and have a concise vision for implementing common sense solutions. Their sense of esteem is unwavering and unyielding. Their leadership qualities grow in the context of inevitable criticism directed from the contented class. Emerging entrepreneurs begin to learn the satisfaction in nudging the train from its course and ultimately arrive at a destiny shaped by their inner self rather than circumstance of the work place.
Are you an emerging entrepreneur? Below are some signs.
- You are an enigma, isolated at times
- You still cringe upon witnessing displays of office politics
- You believe you can do things better than management
- A little voice continues to ask why you make such compromises
- You scheme in your mind while executing the tedious tasks
- Your spouse senses dissatisfaction in your being
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