Allgemein | simpleamy | Juni 11, 2010,10:44
Has it come to this again? The president is meeting with his oil spill experts, he crudely tells us, so that he knows "whose ass to kick." We have become accustomed to his management style — target a scapegoat, assign blame and go on the attack. To win health care legislation, he vilified insurance executives; to escape bankruptcy law for General Motors, he demonized senior lenders; to take the focus from the excesses of government, he castigated business meetings in Las Vegas; and to deflect responsibility for the deepening and lengthening downturn, he blames Wall Street and George W. Bush. But what may make good politics does not make good leadership. And when a crisis is upon us, America wants a leader, not a politician.
We saw leadership on Sept. 11, 2001. Then as now, black billows seemed to come from the center of the earth. Lives had been lost. The environmental impact was immeasurable. The looming economic impact from lost tourism was incalculable. Into the crisis walked Rudy Giuliani. While that was an incomparable human tragedy, how the mayor led New York City to recover is a useful model for the president.
Rudy camped out at Ground Zero — he didn't hole up in his office or retreat to his residence. His presence not only reassured the people of New York that someone was in charge, it also enabled the mayor to assess the situation firsthand, to take the measure of the people he had on the ground, and to understand the scope of the crisis.
The president has many critical matters that demand his attention, but brief and tardy tours and being photographed with a smudge of oil on a sandy beach don't work on any level. There is no substitute for being there.
In a crisis, the leader must gather the experts — federal, state, local, public and private — not to discover who is to blame but to secure their active and continuous involvement until the crisis is resolved. There is extraordinary power inherent in an assembly of brilliant people guided by an able leader. In virtually every historic national crisis, our most effective leaders gathered the best minds they could find — consider the Founders in Philadelphia, Lincoln with his "Team of Rivals," Roosevelt with scientists and generals seeking to end World War II, Kennedy with the "Best and Brightest" confronting the Cuban missile crisis.
What happens when men and women of various backgrounds, fields of expertise, and unfettered intellectual freedom come together to tackle a problem often exceeds any reasonable expectation. Ideas from one may cross-fertilize the thinking of another, yielding breakthroughs. The president of MIT told me that the university spent millions of dollars to build a bridge connecting two engineering departments that had been separated by a road — the potential for shared thinking made it more than worth the cost.
But even a gathering of experts won't accomplish much unless a skilled leader uses their perspective to guide the recovery. So far, it has been the CEO of BP who has been managing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The president surely can't rely on BP — its track record is suspect at best: Its management of this crisis has been characterized by obfuscation and lack of preparation. And BP's responsibilities to its shareholders conflict with the greater responsibility to the nation and to the planet.
The president must personally lead the effort to solve the crisis. He cannot delegate this quintessential responsibility of his presidency in the way he delegated the stimulus bill, the cap-and-trade bill and the health care bill. It may be an instance of learning on the job, but it is a job only he can do.
The first rule of turnarounds is to focus time, energy and resources on what matters most. The president simply cannot treat this crisis like another of his many problems. The oil disaster could hurt millions of families, slam the regional economy, kill untold numbers of non-human lives and irreparably damage the planet. Among other things, he must not hold more rock concerts at the White House — I understand James Carville's venting: His hero fiddled as oil churned.
Finding fault is easier than finding answers. And worse, it paralyzes many of the very people who may be needed to solve a crisis. When Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast states, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco went on the attack; Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour went to work. His state's recovery is textbook; hers is not.
President Obama's instigation of criminal investigations of BP at this juncture is classic diversion politics — and worse, it will engender bunker mentality at a time when collaboration and openness are most critical. BP's actions and inactions are reprehensible; it must be made to pay the billions upon billions of dollars that this spill will ultimately cost. But call out the phalanx of lawyers later — solve the crisis today.
The president can learn a good deal from the crisis leadership of men and women in government and in business. Giuliani is a notable example, but so too are Washington, Adams, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Reagan and Kennedy. In a time of national crisis, we look to our president to acknowledge, as Harry Truman did, that it is at his desk where the buck stops.
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Allgemein | simpleamy | November 05, 2009,11:00
Time of day, most afraid of, that is, for dinner do not know what to do should think of what should go where, I always find many reasons to ask their friends who come later to go back, with me waiting for a train or walk with me until I feel embarrassed , and then said, you go back, my taxi to go home. It seems I have not understand how a person should live, how to learn a not so lonely.
I am lost, I feel something has been how to pay no return, I am still enduring torture yourself, and sometimes chest boring, and sometimes the body is very tired and sometimes feel upset. I always say, the weather will be hot, so it? In fact, I found that he had been standing on a cliff edge, is considering jumping or waiting to be redeemed, and I will answer waited too long, eventually lost the momentum to continue, I have to admit, yes, I've lost I am tired, I gave up ...
Morning dream entangled me, conscious that it will not get up to go to work, I like a puppet and the general, waving do not dream and sleepy head, get up and wash the general official. What is inside a dream? Inside is a lot of dreams like me a lot of high-doll bears, as well as my store, which very, very warm. There-Can, and Phi Phi, the two of them with a smile you Nong Nong me. How far is the well-being? For me, one will be near one, will be much, anyway, feel unreal. Like bark to me have said, only filled with pain, life can become a true live-off vouchers, yes, according to this standard, I was really alive.
I have had the most beautiful dream, which can lead people to live in dreams, very wonderful, it seems as long as there, I could not care less complex life on earth. I will be very happy, I will very happy, had chased for so long, I still want to have a happy life ... so
Belief in immortality!
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my life | simpleamy | Januar 08, 2009,10:32
Most objects of the nature take the form of curve, is the curve standing erect, the rivers and streams, curve that flow, one curved crescent, lines of rainbow, birds spread the wings, beast goes straight and chases, it is the curve fluctuating, the flowers show one's own coquetry with the curve.
The curve is omnipresent, it is imbued with glamour than straight line. The most beautiful human body in the world, for example, feminine charm, U.S.A. is on the curve. The most beautiful music in the world, reaction is in people's psychology, is the harmony of the curve. Carving root, potted landscape, painting, calligraphy ...... All curves of art.
The curve can lead your eyes to do infinite chasing, can cause your plural thinking.
Likewise, the way in life, is a curve too, rugged, the twists, have already left the winner's joy, the tear failing has dropped down too. There are the victor's happinesses, disconsolate that there are persons who are baffled too. Because the life just has so many curves, it is meaningful to just make and substantiate.
But persistent blot of that bunches of twists that when a person turns one's head in one's own bumpy tour suddenly, that he leaves for oneself definitely, feel sincere and gratified.
The tour in life is winding, human history is winding too. But the twists are not that what the people grow and advance is low-spirited and the tide of history one falls back - -Tour though twists, splendid prospects, human history though twists for life, but era always advances in the twists. All setbacks, underestimating, the little interlude just on the forward march. So, those people who can succeed will be never downhearted while receiving the setback, because they always reveal the temporary trials and hardship, survey and take the future sunshine.
Curve one beauty, such American life of lying in. No matter in crooked life, or winding history, the curve of their natural form is always beautiful. So, life is a winding, true curve which includes the sweat.
It is exactly curves in the life too, create for our life beautiful.
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my life | simpleamy | Januar 07, 2009,04:54
Love happy silently, time passes hurriedly, play the silent melody gently during continuous and endless years. Year after year, we have forgotten appearance in depths in season such as that after all. Restless time, the note rising and falling rhythmically, condense into a deep and remote and gentle and mild and indirect song, wipe just like whom quiet night burst forth pure white, moving on invisible.
We are looking for the happy way throughout one's life, but has not found the happiness brushes against wes early. When the pale yellow light gets on the top of the wall, the world and makes quietly, will you remember that go through face of vicissitudes in those? Sway, float as wormwood ruins become reticent a when more and more with the wind among wilderness, will you recall the bit in the past? As the favor blows in the ears, time flies comes, will you continue moving ahead without the least hesitation? Turn one's head suddenly, smiling at, word of knitting the brows in the passage - -Once so-called originally, happy.
The happiness is needed watering by the love. The flower in the greenhouse, is content with the baptism of enjoying the sunshine, never know the trials and hardships outside, just indulge in self-admiration, it is lonely; The grass in the field, go through the tempering of trials and hardship, make stronger and stronger, it values all all over the body, so it is happy. Have time, we originally think the unattractive faint detail in those, after clarification of time, turn into our most deep and most eternal tenderness in the bottom of heart.
It has its own quality guarantee period that each section is happy. The food is overdue, will be rotten and stale; Happy and overdue, will disappear and have no track, have no place to seek again. People are always after losing, comprehend to the happy preciousness, but the happiness lacked has gone for ever, regret with apologetic to exist forever in the mind of we. This is no doubt a sadly beautiful scene drama, but against reality, it is so cruel and heavy.
The happiness needs us to create together. For instance, people are unable to live alone the same, happy too also so. Although it is ordinary, shake our heart constantly. One's agony, two people do not become so heavy again when sharing; One's happiness, two people do not become so lonely again when sharing. When when has perhaps has already passed out of existence on a lot of days, we turn one's head and meet again - -Let us change, make us happy, it that also made us sad too, but we once believed at least, once brave.
Never happily hope to reciprocate. It always gazes at you in some unattractive corner. So unhonored, hope to see your happy expression, hope to let your world full of warmth, hope to encourage you to stride forward forward, it is deeply grateful and never mind you. So, as coming happily on you, please cherish a heart feeling grateful and shout loudly against the wind " I am very happy " ,Let the nice and warm your good news of clear wind belt be spread to all parts of the world, let each corner full of happy breath.
We want to catch happy hands, accompany the end way until destiny with it, don't let it slip away easily. It can not be old to be happy, but like the floating smoke and passing clouds, it is ten thousand years of millennium suddenly in life, it is in this the so-called " people not former times than,remain unchanged happiness " ! Those what we have, will go with the wind, during the era when the stars will be sheltered, tell permanent singing.
The happiness is of forest, perhaps we have never arrived, but it has been there all the time, the federation waits there - -Wait for people that lost in the dense fog, wait for people who will meet soon, wait for people who love happy silently
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Allgemein | simpleamy | Januar 07, 2009,04:53