Uncommitted Decline: (Unedited): 28 Aug 2013:

The uncommitted on your team will demoralize your team leaders as you can only watch your teams overall performance decline. 

C.J.MacKechnie

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Actively choosing quality members for your "A Team", "B Team" and  all other teams is critical. Picking a team member who is only their to get a pay check, to socialize or to even just watch. Will eventually cause you to lose your star players or star employees. If you the overall leader fail to take the necessary action and coach/manager your team. As the team coach it is your responsibility to be the lead cheer leader, psychologist and disciplinarian. Sometimes even taxi driver if need be. 
In the professional environment the decline you can only watch, will be tied to your profit/loss sheet immediately. There is nothing you can do. Unless you take immediate action right now. But, typically you the coach/manager will need to be transferred or just let go. Your bosses will need to hire a temporary strong person to weed out the dead weight. While you will need to have that secret conversation with your stars so that they themselves don't walk freely out your door to profit your competition. The head hunters will be circling just like those great black birds just waiting for that right kind of dead smell to emanate from your place.
The worse kind of loss is when your stars become so demoralized that you just have to let them go. You can thank your former coach/manager for that great loss. Then blame yourself for not acting objectively on the facts at hand and for not listening to your stars while favoring the coach/manager.
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Great Destroyer: (Unedited): 29 Dec 2011:

The great destroyer of any peoples is personal and professional apathy. C.J.MacKechnie

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I've driven all over this great land we call The United States of America. Everywhere I see apathy. people who no longer care about their jobs. Like any terrible air borne disease, Apathy spreads to everyone. Like any new disease which enters your being. It gestates, grows, multiplies and evolves. All within you. So, If a fellow employee doesn't care about doing a good job. What do you do? Work twice as hard or say and do as this apathetic person is doing? A good person will work their own job and jump in to complete the apathetic persons job. Because, most apathetic people just do not last long. Except for now, with the reward of unemployment compensation. Free money for sitting at home.
What happens if your in an entry level position and filled with pride for the company and job. Only to have an apathetic person as your boss. What do you do? Because any genuine complaint or communication of a problem, you may have will be twisted into by the apathetic boss in a negative fashion against you. While if the apathetic boss sees merit to your complaint. They will twist it for their own benefit and reward. When they take it to the supreme all knowing bosses. Then when there is a fix and you approach the apathetic boss about the idea. The apathetic person will ridicule you as they and he/she knows way more than you and this was in there awareness for some time. In other words you wasted your time. Which you didn't, But, you will never know the truth. because the apathetic boss person will erect a shield to anyone above their position. Not because they are all controlling but rather they are protecting themselves.
The same goes when you have that great wonderful idea. The apathetic boss will see your idea as an opportunity for themselves.
The word peoples can be replaced with Companies, corporations, nations, planet.

I guess a good person will walk away. While the bosses can and will fill your position. Who and what kind of person will they get. They will get people who match the psychology of the apathetic boss. Which in the end means what for the company? A never ending stream of stupid problems which no one will resolve. Why? not because of training or the lack of training. Because, of the attitude "If no one cares why should I". So, if you are a caring supreme all knowing big time boss man and your experiencing a never ending stream of stupid time and money losing problems. Look down your chain of command. Have a personal conversation with your entry level people with reassurances. Those who by record are always early and are always getting the job done above your own defined standard. Find and locate the apathetic disease within and cut it away. Cast it or them into the symbolic fire and remember them no more.
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... Facebook note #1500. I'm at the end of the Facebook world. The inspiration for this is Flying J truck stop. On I-81x77, exit #77. A yellow truck was dripping diesel fuel. Not a stream but a steady drip. Hours of dripping and not a single driver who entered or exited cared enough to voice a concern. No flying J manager has even went around the property as they arrived to work. Now there is a 50-100 gallon fuel spill. The J guys were successful in preventing the fuel from actually getting into a drain pipe. No one cares anymore. People only care if you bring it to their attention. This is very real evidence of a people self destructing. C.J.MacKechnie

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Go and sin no more.

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To avert all of the coming bad and sad prophecies. We each must decide to do the following everyday, every hour, every minute and every second.

To Love one another.

To live in peace with everyone.

To exist in harmony with all.

To Cherish all life.

To be obedient to the Laws of God.

To become righteous and holy by the accepting eyes of God only.

All without any pride, ego, arrogance, supremacy and entitlements.
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Tigers Importance: (Unedited): 18 Dec 2011:

The average and feeble minded person will always value the paper tigers importance over the actual tiger. C.J.MacKechnie

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 The average and feeble minded person seems to always support the paper tigers in life. Because, Think about it. Who do you want to face toe to toe? A paper tiger or a actual tiger? Of course you say the paper tiger as do I. It is the case in all aspects of life. Go to any sporting event. The actual tigers are the ones playing the game. While the paper tigers are the ones who proclaim how badly the real tigers played the game.
Psychologically speaking, your less likely to approach the boss who you some how internally fear than the one whom you see yourself as an equal to or superior to. In the business world, You should not fear anyone, unless your a lousy employee. The fear you have about your boss who is actually smarter, wiser and stronger than you is without merit or logic. That person is in that position because they are a leader and is seen as such. Unless, of course the boss/leader is a paper tiger. Then there is a possibility that they lied and deceived those who hired them. The paper tiger whom you approach may be more fearful of the actual tiger than you are. Thus, creating more of a useless situation for you. Especially, if you are having a problem or a grand idea. In which the grand idea will become the idea of the paper tiger and your problem will go no where.
The paper tiger can be and often is very damaging to any company/corporation. This is not discovered until, after the paper tiger moves on. Which is what paper tigers need to do is move on. Because, any discovery that they are a paper tiger may prevent them from getting that better job with more money and more responsibility.
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