Forcing Proactive: (Unedited): 23 Aug 2017:

You must be proactive against the negative aspects of impossible thinking. While at the same time forcing yourself into the positive aspects that all things are probable forms of thinking. 

C.J.MacKechnie

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I just had a discussion with my young son working on his second degree. Sometimes when faced with impossibility and absolute unfavorable certainty. You still gotta show in your self and to others what you absolutely expect from them even if it includes how they think. You cannot have your/our finest moment without first expecting and maintaining that attitude among everyone who is with you.
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Really?!?!? you want a square peg in a round hole and if you don't do it in a short amount of time with poorly thinking people. They are all gonna die. So how long do you want to argue or debate the issue?
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Before you as a leader can overcome an unfortunate, ill-conceived, unplanned, impossible and improbable undesired certainty. You as a manager must first be able to assemble a team and grow that team with a singular unity and goal as defined by you. All without becoming some prideful god, arrogant dictator, supreme intellectual, or some entitled crown prince. The words below will be helpful.
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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 pride, ego, arrogance, supremacy or entitlements.
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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. 

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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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Unexpected Attitudes +3: (Unedited): 29 May 2013:

The aggressive management of unexpected attitudes can right your ship. C.J.MacKechnie

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As soon as you the leader or manager detect any down fall in morale or a souring of attitudes. You and the rest of the management/ownership team must find the fault within yourselves and correct it faster than quickly. It is better for you to stop all work without any cessation in pay to find the negative source and expel it than to just continue on into the unseen ice berg.

It is better to have time lost and payroll beyond expectations than to lose the ship all because of low morale un-mitigated and un-managed by the entire leadership team.
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All attitude problems and morale issues begin and end with the entire management team. Poor performance and worker misery is just a result of you the owners, leaders and managers. 

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Added on 30 Dec 2024: 

Moving water from one side of your flooded ship to another side does not make for a safe and dry space for you.

C.J.MacKechnie 

Moving water around in a flooded ship is a clear sign of incompetent management ignoring the real problem.

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Just because the brave captain cannot abandon their ship does not mean you cannot leave when things go sourly south. Prioritize your commitments to your faith, family, friends and then employer. 

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REPENT! REPENT! REPENT!

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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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Expected Demise: (Unedited): 29 May 2013:

A bad leader creates an expected demise, Which can be predicted by a good manager. C.J.MacKechnie

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The good manager becomes a prophet when the bad leader comes up with bad plans which can destroy the whole of everything. Hopefully there are a group of leaders instead of a one. Hopefully one of those other reasonable wise leaders will listen to the good manager and contemplate on the hard experience of the good manager.
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Expected Creations: (Unedited): 29 May 2013:

A good leader creates an expected positive work life which can be predicted by a good manager. C.J.MacKechnie

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It is the responsibility of a good leader to create good life probabilities for all of those persons who are involved with his/her creations. A good manager is one who can see the creation of the good leader before it is manifested. Then the good manager can make it and continue it.

The good leader is not creating a new thing just so it becomes present. The creation become dimensional in its own existence. Even if the leader is abstractly blind to anything more than the creation. All that is created from the creation is livelihoods for all of those involved. It is the responsibility of the good leader and good manager to ensure that those involved have the ability to live a life as they define it. This is a part of freedom.

It is also the responsibility of the good leader and good manager to protect the livelihoods of those involved and must be a part of the negotiating process in any transference of responsibilities.  All the way down to the broom pushers.
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