The Barn Door Has Been Open For A Long Time
Barney Fife tells Andy "Nip it in the bud". A truism if there ever was one. It's memorialized on YouTube and the episode is on cable periodically.
This is something easy to talk about but hard to execute. Talk is cheap, that's why there is so much of it. Lots of strategies to do stuff fall apart because they are unpopular or because they are not big enough to be effective in the short run and we limit effectiveness by having contradictory policies and values.
There has been a lot of righteous hand wringing about Miley Cyrus and her performance on the Video Music Awards. I didn't see it when it happened but it sure did what was intended and maybe a little bit more.
It's not easy to protect kids from stuff these days and if you are overly protective it can boomerang easily and meanwhile the sea level is rising. Elementary school is a cake walk compared to Middle School and High School.
The business terms span of control, micro management, mission statement, governance policies, free markets, bureaucracy, efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, return on investment, and diversification, quantitative easing, inflation, deflation, income disparity, risk analysis and lots of other clinical or business terms seem to have won the war of words.
Terms like freedom, independence, opportunity, democracy, quality of life, education, health, morality, and tolerance now engender emotional responses that make conversation a minefield.
As a result we will launch missiles, start wars, and possibly worsen an already bad thing out of frustration without a clear goal, exit strategy and agreement or partners and a discussion of consequences.
Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should, especially when we don't know for sure why we are doing it and can't explain our motivation.
There are more than a few things we should have nipped in the bud, but we were otherwise occupied and so it goes.
This is something easy to talk about but hard to execute. Talk is cheap, that's why there is so much of it. Lots of strategies to do stuff fall apart because they are unpopular or because they are not big enough to be effective in the short run and we limit effectiveness by having contradictory policies and values.
There has been a lot of righteous hand wringing about Miley Cyrus and her performance on the Video Music Awards. I didn't see it when it happened but it sure did what was intended and maybe a little bit more.
It's not easy to protect kids from stuff these days and if you are overly protective it can boomerang easily and meanwhile the sea level is rising. Elementary school is a cake walk compared to Middle School and High School.
The business terms span of control, micro management, mission statement, governance policies, free markets, bureaucracy, efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, return on investment, and diversification, quantitative easing, inflation, deflation, income disparity, risk analysis and lots of other clinical or business terms seem to have won the war of words.
Terms like freedom, independence, opportunity, democracy, quality of life, education, health, morality, and tolerance now engender emotional responses that make conversation a minefield.
As a result we will launch missiles, start wars, and possibly worsen an already bad thing out of frustration without a clear goal, exit strategy and agreement or partners and a discussion of consequences.
Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should, especially when we don't know for sure why we are doing it and can't explain our motivation.
There are more than a few things we should have nipped in the bud, but we were otherwise occupied and so it goes.
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