Here’s a little exercise for you.
Let’s say you own a large and very successful business. It’s successful because you spearhead the operation with dignity and every decision you make you send through a high moral and ethical filter first.
You insist on only the best for your company to maintain its high standard of operation. Your product is by and far the best on the market and you pride yourself in the fact that because of your due diligence, no other product or company can rise to the level you’ve established.
It’s taken a great deal of time and sacrifice from you and the people who work with and for you to make your company and product the best it can be.
You are getting up there in age and your beginning to see the fruits of your labor payoff. You want to enjoy those fruits. You’ve decided that its time to either groom a protege or hire a like minded person to keep steering the company in the direction you’ve set forth in your mission statement of high quality, high moral and ethical standards.
You’ve narrowed your search down to a handful of potential candidates.
It’s time to read the resumes and let the cream rise to the top so to speak. You let the background checks, ethical evaluations and experience guide your decision.
You fully understand that this is one of the most important decisions of your life and your company’s life. It’s an awesome responsibility and you are more than happy to do what has to be done.
Ultimately, you rely on your undeniably good instincts as a successful business person and as a moral person living in a democratic society. You also make your choice based upon your research and the guidelines you’ve set forth in your search for that new leader.
You do this because its important to you that your company continues to thrive and survive while maintaining the level of superior quality you’ve found to be the key to your long standing success.
You would never hire someone that doesn’t know what they’re doing no matter how they tried to convince you they are the right person for the job.
Would you agree?
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I submit that this is the way we all should go about picking our leaders in government.
It is our duty, as citizens, to make educated choices, not tuck to our tails in a submissive manner and accept who TV commercials tell us to choose.
Spend some time researching each of your candidates. I’m not talking just about the president of the United States. I’m also talking about each candidate right down to your local representatives.
Remember, these people represent you. Make sure to include that consideration. Ask yourself, how do you want to be represented?
People, we have a choice!
The problem I see in our system is that we’ve allowed it to become so convoluted with rubbish at every turn and its incredibly hard to see through the smoke that is constantly blown our way by the candidates themselves. That fact right there should tell you something about those candidates.
You don’t like the choices?
“Rome wasn’t built in a day” It will take time to make the changes that are so desperately needed.
Without a little effort from every citizen and that means you, I assure you the system will remain status quo.
Stand up and be heard!