Not FDR, but FEAR

I have some time during work. I thought I blast some thoughts and opinions on what absurd comments I saw this week. The first one that come to my mind was the inspirational speech by Mr. O. Without a doubt he knows how to speak to people and uses word of inspiration. But my gripe about all of his speech and what he choose as his weapon to combat the issue of the nation, makes me wonder if the guy lives in reality. My ultimate question is this, just because someone speak of what is right (or wrong), call out the right (or wrong), does that mean what he execute is working? He made a few mistakes already and yet people continue to praise him. If the same actions were done by someone else I doubt we would give that person that much slack. But let's focus. His speech talks about being responsible and taking ownership. The problem is that many people are having a hard time in this economy are the responsible ones who pays their bill on time and tried to be the responsible citizen. Now what about speak to the irresponsible people? Well by telling them now that they should be responsible, would that cause them to suddenly change their behavior, unless they are in the hole already. So bottom line, we all know people needs to be responsible, but as a leader your job is produce results not try to point out the problems that we already know.

So from my evaluation of the guy's behavior since I had a chance to better analyze him, brings up some things that concerns me. For one I do believe he is smart, he is very stubborn or strong headed about things, and as well as eloquent which with those combinations makes him a bit concerning for me. He does not like being wrong even though he comes off as wanting to be the open and acceptable president. When he is wrong, he learns to disassociate himself from the situation and brings up that it is a group ownership. Look back and examine the times that he uses the word "I" in his sentences and when he uses the word "We". My opinion is that sometime as a leader you have to be lucky as well as to be some what smart. Look and examine all the CEO, presidents, leaders of the companies out there. The belief is that if you are able to stay at a position long enough, things will turn around. But in the mean time creat a constant motion in the team so that activities will suggest progress. The perception of change will eventually become reality. Like one time I heard from an executive VP at work, that it is not about what is right or wrong it is about setting the pace.

With that said I do thing some of thing is is doing is with some level of good intentions. But most people are not 100% good or 100% bad. There we should judge base on what they do and not on a constant fairy tale of what things should be.

Well one last thought. If down falls below 7000 mark, then we are heading into a depression. During that time people act a bit crazy and sometime their survival instinct bring out the worse of them.