We're NOT Headed for the Graveyard!
In more than 40 years of experience in science and technology, as an experimenter and in management, both in the public and private sectors, I've learned there are stages or phases in business and in projects. They are Innovator, Moderator, and Undertaker phases. There are managers who possess strengths or interests in one or another. Rarely will you find a manager who has strengths in all three.
The Innovator is a manager who is very good at starting projects or businesses, or organizations. Once started, they're quickly over their heads. In business, these people create start-ups and quickly sell them off for a profit.
The Moderator takes over a struggling entity; repairs what's broken, an continues to grow it. When it reaches peak growth, this type of manager is over his or her head, and needs to be replaced.
The Undertaker is a manager who kills off failing entities so that resources can be recouped for new enterprises. When done properly, this is known as Creative Destruction. When not done for beneficent reasons, it can lead to catastrophic destruction. In 21st century practice, the Undertakers often can't wait for a company to fail; they induce failure, with the help of politicians, in pursuit of quick profits. Nothing good comes of their efforts.
Similar phases occur in politics and public affairs. Politicians, also, can mirror the behaviors found in business and management. We now have as President, a Moderator who is showing amazing progress in salvaging a reeling economy and government.
True to their nature, the Undertakers (in the jungle, they're known as carrion pursuers) have appeared and are ready to "finish off" all of us.
Stay Vigilant !! Why Elect the Undertaker??
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