By: Randy Vaughan

Randy Vaughan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:30:05 +0000

The very fact that executives and ceo’s pay to attend seminars such as yours is all the “proof” one needs of just how innately incompetent these men and women really are. Yes, they may well indeed know all about profits and profit margins and “growing a business,” but they are clueless, wreckless, and consumed with apathy regarding something no more complex nor complicated than those “people skills”. Routinely–and I’m convinced by their very natures–they confuse their authority with being superior, leaving them utterly bewildered at why their employees don’t give a damn about them or their companies. As a commercial plumber in the early 80’s, I was told it was this simple: Hot on the left, cold on the right, and shit don’t flow uphill.” Well, in these bleak days of micro-management, crap always flows from the top down.
It’s more than a passing observation that in most cases, your “audience” is part of my generation, aging baby-boomers. The very same folks who not so long ago were chanting “fight the establishment” and “make love, not war” have proven to be the most callous, greedy, and self-absorbed megalomaniacs ever to take over corporate America. It’s sad, tragic, embarrassing and, with all due respect to your noble efforts, a lost cause. They are, for the most part, educated way beyond their levels of intelligence, both intellectual and especially emotionally.
Nothing but the best.
Randy Vaughan

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