It really comes down to term limits!

Our founding fathers recognized the importance of having citizen politicians. Citizen politicians defined over 235 years ago as people who participate in the political process, and these people come from all walks of life, such as farmers, businesses, law practices, inn keepers, chimney sweepers and schoolteachers.

These citizen politicians participated in the people’s government result in fresh new realist practical ideas from the communities they live in. These ideas coming from the community bringing reality and cultural inspiration based on real world experiences. These citizen politicians representing the people’s government and after their politicking is done they simply travel home to their citizens lives once again.

What is deeply saddening is the evolutionary process of the professional politician, who’s only goal in life is to stay in that elected seat full-time and forever. Without ever relinquishing this position resulting in stagnant ideas, with no possible sense of connection to the real people that elected them. In addition, a lack of connection to any sense of reality at all, these professional politicians are more closely aligned to an elitist mindset nowhere grounded to the community they are supposed to represent.

Political elitists have no direct correlation to the citizens that they represent, in most cases these professional politicians are not even from the same state. The only reason that these professional politicians are there, is because a great deal of money is now made for being a professional politician. Our founding fathers never intended to make citizens full-time politicians, or they would have written term-limits into the constitution for all elected officials from dogcatcher to the president.

Instead, what we have today a professional politician with no real connection back to the community that they represent, and what happens is “we the people” cease to exist.” “We the people” today are no longer the foundation for this government, and we the people have become merely three words in the English language.

Not going to happen on my watch; Our voices are powerful and true!

January 19, 2010 linked to July 4, 1776

The political guesswork is at hand, January 19, 2010 linked to July 4th, 1776. With the vast network of politicians spending millions of dollars to help us determine who we vote for, and yet never really understanding the needs of the people. With the negative and positive adds, as well as the truthful as dishonest ads simply confuse the voter more. While all candidates have one thing in common, a desire to focus your vote, to earn your vote, and to get you out to the voting booth.

What is forgotten is that our founding fathers intended for the politicians to be citizen politicians. A citizen politician, an elected person who goes back to their farm, law practice, business, military job or home when the politicking job is done. Our founding fathers intended for the politicians to be the voice of the citizens, not the voice to keep the politician in office for life.

What is forgotten, is our founding fathers intended for this great nation never to just focus on one view or the other, but to focus on the people’s views. The people’s views are never-ending and always in some form of change, because the people views are all that matters. What is important with the election on January 19. 2010 is our current politicians are simply that, politicians who have lost focus on the people’s views.

Our founding fathers knew what they were doing…. when the government forgets they work for us the citizens, the system they created will adjust…. January 19, 2010 the adjustment begins…

Our founding fathers understood these moments in history would occur when an adjustment becomes needed; one candidate experienced in both civilian and military life has made his candidacy a formidable foe against a Large-Out-Dated-Democratic-Machine in Massachusetts.

Perhaps the reason we are here today it’s time for a different view, it’s time for the people’s view, and the people’s voice will vote on January 19, 2010, and may the adjustment begin…

2010 Is The Year Of The Family!

Family values begin at home and follow you throughout your daily adventures. Daily adventures that include making a living, going to school, running errands such as shopping, visiting with friends, and struggling to maintain stability in our lives comes from basic family values. Family values are based upon common values and common sense that are passed down from generations to generations. Today society often confuses family values to one form of religion or another; in fact, family values are foundational in Gods common values fed by faith. With that knowledge, we all share the same God.

Happy New Year, and please allow 2010 to become your year of the family!

Pietro, AMERICAN WRITER

Immigrants

My parents immigrated to the United States 50 years ago not looking for free handouts. What they were looking for was learning to speak English, earning a better life, and contributing to the American Dream. My parents proud of their heritage, which today includes becoming contributors to the American Dream. A lesson taught by them, leave the world much better than you find it, treat everyone with respect, and contribute more then you take. Be fair to those who do not respect you in return and especially those who do not believe in the American Dream. Because your relentless faith will cause them to finally understand the true importance of America, because it is hard to argue with common sense. Mostly do not let anyone hold you back! My parents raised four children with English as their primary language, now English is part of all our heritages as well!

THE INGREDIENTS OF INSPIRATION – Is the time and wisdom of people who desire to build bridges across all language boundaries. This wisdom begins with faith in the American Dream and continues for generations to come…

Dream Beyond the Future is Called Time Travel!

Often dreams come in the night; all we can hope for is a glimpse, a small measure of time spent while in some sort of half awake state. This written journey ventures out into vast space of time, creating and even wider gap between reality, the present and the future; what becomes clear is that time travel is speculating the future, and visibility increases sustainability one empirical adventure after another.

In business, speculating the future is a form of time travel, how a firm engages the future today determines if there is a future tomorrow. We have grown up in a world with television, and experienced television programs like Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, and X-Files. Now given the influence of futuristic time we find ourselves deep into a sense of urgency to revamp humanity’s attitude towards time (Helm, 2005).

Speculating future positive business performance linked to visibility, and an open mind-set leading to different forms of business sustainability. Once humanity accepts the linkage between future, past and the present, developing business solutions for futuristic condition occur today with ease more reason to dream beyond the future!

Helm, B. (2005). Borges’s Elimination of Past and Future: A Paradox. KronoScope, 5(1), p73-82.

Holistic Approach to Winning Business

Holistic Approach to Winning Business and Avoid “Quote-Everything-itis Syndrome”

Winning new business or sustaining existing business is directly related to urgency. Understanding the urgency in the eyes of your customer can yield you greater business opportunities. Holistic approach to winning quoted awards becomes directly linked to your customer’s urgency and your urgency to respond to that customer. Urgency is the key; your response speed sends a clear message to your customer that WOW! “I’m ready to do business with you!”, “I’m confident, let’s get started!”, and “You are important to me and our business can help you!”

Persuading customers that it would be better for them to work with your company because you recognize their sense of urgency is easy to implement because the resources are already in place. Ideas don’t always have to be dramatic or terribly creative to drive successful sales. Urgency trends have a dramatic effect on businesses and our sense of urgency creates a powerful perception that you are the right vendor and service provider, right now, today!

An area that is often difficult to nail down because we are focused on the ultimate goal of higher sales, we lose sight of a tactical part of being in business, making a respectful profit, for that reason revenue must match reality. Tactically achieving higher sales becomes the target and not our true business reality of hopefully lots of money left over at the end of the day. It is not uncommon for businesses to become caught up in what I call; “the Quote-Everything-itis syndrome.” Quote-Everything-itis Syndrome is a common disease that businesses find themselves engaged in when they forget revenue must match their reality to deliver product and services.

Companies don’t even realize they are doing it. The only clear sign is that revenue goals never seem to be reached, and great frustration tends to be the norm because you don’t have enough time to quote efficiently and smartly. A business suffering from “Quote-Everything-itis Syndrome” quotes every request for proposal (RFP) and request for quote (RFQ) that comes across their sales team’s desks even if it’s something they have never done before. Have you ever heard or said this phrase yourself? “Don’t worry if we win the job, we will figure out how to get it done.” There is an old culture out there that believes that increased sales are a result of quoting everything. This quoting strategy gives the false perception that the sales team is working very hard establishing a vicious cycle of wasted resources, “Quote-Everything-itis Syndrome” clearly a vicious disease a business needs to avoid.

To evaluate whether or not to quote something is simple. When the RFP or RFQ ends up on your desk, ask yourself one question. “Can we do this?” If the answer is “yes,” quote it. If the answer is “I think we can do this”; don’t quote it. In aviation we have a famous saying when determining whether or not to fly the airplane that particular day. If you say to yourself. “I think I can make it,” stay on the ground and don’t fly. More egos kill pilots than mechanical errors. The same thought process applies to quoting work.

Staying within your core business is the first important lesson in holistically improving sales; the second lesson which is just as critical is speed to proposal and quote. With speed to proposal or quote, a hot zone correlation between responding to sales leads, RFPs, RFQs, and submitting a quote to the customer exists. The increase in awards is significant if you stay within the hot zone (2 to 4 working days). It does not matter if this is for manufacturing parts, services, or consulting. Hot zone correlation is easy to measure: improve the quoting flow = greater sales. This sends a clear message to customers that you are confident that you can get the job done.

Quoting on projects within your core also drives efficiency, allowing a high percentage of quotes to be submitted within the hot zone. Quoting on projects within your core business practices is easier because you have experience and history in gathering all the components of a quote or proposal. The advantage of staying within your cultural knowledge base includes improving internal and external collaboration for better productivity and efficiency

Final thoughts, the holistic approach upon success in sales revolves around:
1. Relationships, face-to-face is better, because the human attention span is short, this is a human factors resource element, and then focus on the quoting hot zone of 2 to 4 working days.

2. Urgency, in the customers mind “Think Customer’s Pain Reduction.”

3. Providing credible services by staying in your core business to drive positive customer perceptions and relationships.
The holistic sales approach is not an overhaul of your sales force. Holistic sales approach becomes a strategic focus on your company’s experience, comfort zone, and elimination of past sales frustrations.

Revised from the Original Article Published in genonow.com; Savo, P. (2008). Holistic Approach to Improving Quoted Business Awards. genonow.com 2(12),2. Creator of the term: Varabiliti-tologist is a person who studies variability.

Futuring Holistic Framework for Business Leaders

Futuring Holistic Framework (FHF) for business leadership’s strategic organizational change is an all encompassing holistic directional change. Directional change is much more than goal setting and trending out or forecasting a business’s objective desired results. When the word holistic comes into play, it must spark relevance instilling a level of research comfort not yet experienced in the business community. Holistic relates to the entire complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into one part, hence, directional change becomes the natural by-product of Futuring Holistic Framework, the study of all parts of a business.

Futuring Holistic Framework reflects and encompasses an entire thought or battery of thoughts that represents a method to invent, develop and implement positive events in the business’s future that come in the form of directional change. What evolves is an all-encompassing mind-set for business learning. With the all-encompassing mind-set, organizational leaders in business combined with academia. This joining provides the means to understand business trends, and predict the future with certain accuracy because this combined involvement contributes to inventing the positive business future guided by a directional change.

Perceived Futuring Holistic Framework mind-set is neither present nor future; it is a simple blending of natural time that moves in directions fueled by the joining of business leaders with academia. Application of Futuring Holistic Framework techniques is wide open, and yet so little of the business’s and academia’s visionaries have ventured there. This venture perhaps will build interest in conducting business in the present; and ultimately the future as well.

Futuring Holistic Framework process is motivational because future business successes evolving from it become successes experience today in the present. Experienced business successes are greatly quantifiable and impact the business’s bottom line. The future is so important, and with great depth what is required to predict it, explore it and change it. The future is in the journey; why not embrace it by encouraging directional change in all directions, one more exciting than the other.

A Natural Leader vs. Un-Natural Leader Test

A Natural Leader vs. Un-Natural Leader; it is very straightforward to distinguish the difference between the two:

–A Natural Leader is a leader that people will follow, even if this person does not have granted authority to be the leader.

–An Un-Natural Leader will tell you whatever you want to hear to follow them even when this person has granted authority to be the leader.

Do not over think this; it is that simple.

Now make two columns on a sheet of paper and label the first column “Natural Leader” and the second column “Un-Natural Leader”, then place everyone you know or come in contact with in the appropriate labeled column: you will be amazed at what you discover.

Please e-mail the total quantity from each column. PietroSavoUSA@aol.com

Common Sense Folks

We find ourselves wondering if the government is honestly paying attention to the economic experts or the common sense experiences of its citizens. Common sense seems obvious if you want to simulate job creation the government needs to reduce or eliminate small business taxes. Small businesses in the United States make up over 75% of the new jobs in our economy and this number represents over 99% of all employers. With reduced or eliminated taxes, business owners can invest money back into their business; they can invest in new business markets, invest in new technologies, and invest in honest American job creation.

Reducing or eliminating business taxes is only half the common sense solution, the other half is not spending money our nation does not have. Most Americans budget for what they need and want, and our government needs to learn the same common sense approach to finance. Becoming a nation that is fiscally smart is not a four-letter word. Fiscally smart begins with the government, because common sense folks understand this important lesson. Common sense folks created this nation, and it appears common sense folks will need to move away from the kings and princes’ the career politicians of the 21st Century. What is interesting is how we have come full circle, and it appears it is 1776 once again. Voting revolutions by the people, is always welcomed in society because they represent positive progress in a political wasteful environment caused by career politicians.

The intent of the founding fathers was a system of citizen politicians made up of common sense folks well-grounded, in reality, and today the financial waste is clearly controlled by the career politicians. The great intellect and scientist Albert Einstein said; “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Common sense folks the voters understand that 2010 the year of the common sense voting revolution!

The Will of the People

During a conversation with a gentleman I met yesterday, he made a statement that the Democratic Party had become hijacked by the far left liberals and the Democrat moderates and conservatives, the self-proclaimed Democratic Blue Dogs are beyond belief that this has occurred.

It then occurred to me that perhaps the same statement about the Conservative right hijacking the Republican Party is possible. I do agree something has changed with the Republican Party over the past twenty-five years; I would not call it a hijacking, perhaps more resembling a transformation that began with President Ronald Reagan.

However, the Republican Party does not have the community organizing skills we have witnessed on the Democratic Party side, especially during the past presidential election. Today with the various Tea Parties, and the events of 9/12 what we are witnessing once again is a transformation of historical proportions and it is occurring in all directions around America.

It is not clear if one political party should receive the credit for driving this transformation across America, or perhaps simply the credit belongs to “the will of the people”. “The will of the people” always wins over career politicians, the will of the people” has no political boundaries, and “the will of the people” is what our founding fathers intended.

by AMERICAN WRITER

Manufacturing Research Practitioner ™ by Pietro

Read, write, and question everything!
Our voices are powerful and true!

Pietro Savo E-Mail Link PietroSavoUSA@aol.com