Sometimes you have an experience and it’s like it burns into your memory. You can recall where, when, smells, lunch menu’s…think DDay, JFK, tooth fairy. A couple of things that for some odd reason grabbed my psyche is a little ditty i heard one about “executive” traits of the highly successful. Well, we all want to be that, whatever that is…
Do not be afraid to walk away from considerable investment if, upon reflection, the associated project no longer meets today’s appraisal of needs.
Do not be afraid of reorganizing existing framework so completely that it is no longer recognizable, if needs be to suit today’s needs.
For some reason these jump up at me a lot. Time will tell…
On the matter of the friction between the police and citizens of the United States:
Perhaps we need to be bold here, and consider radical surgery. Police tradition, current hiring practices and law, cedes an inordinate amount of citizen oversight power to the police themselves in a bizarre bait and switch scheme using terms like “official”, and “civilian”.
Until the will to completely remake the dynamics of law enforcement is found, little can be done to change the outcomes of recent times.
It is the simple slights of human dignity practiced daily, which build into this exploitable schism. Along time ago in a galaxy far away, the police obeyed the law. When they gave you an order you followed it because they wouldn’t likely finish something unless you started it. You expected a court where you had a jury decide your case was the real seat of power.
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