Some Points to Ponder from President Obama's Inaugaration Speech:
Your people will judge You on what You can build....
"We understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned.
Rather, it has been the risk takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked 'till their hands were raw, so that we might live a better life."
e.g. Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Warren Buffett, Martin Luther
King Jr., Hellen Keller, Marie Curie, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, JRD
Tata, founders of Intel, Deng Xiaoping, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, Gates,
and ?
not what you destroy ...
e.g. S&L Scandals, Enron, WorldCom, Llyods of London, Madoff's Ponzi scheme, Satyam, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, the very values that made your country great and admired, millions of livelihoods
“Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted - for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame ...
That without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control - and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.”
- President Obama
One Point: Obama was referring to Terrorist when he said " Your people will judge you by....."
Posted by: Joe Chen | January 22, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Good Memo. Hope to see your President Obama picture in the upper gallery some day.
Posted by: Lee | January 22, 2009 at 11:07 PM
The message of this story applies to bad Managers,too. many indicator driven managers, who come in for 2-3 years, destroy the fabric of the organization for short term results, many by managing indicators. Get promoted and take off and leave the organization in ruins. Aren't these some of the techniques the people in your wall of shame (those who destroyed) deployed?
Posted by: Sandy | January 22, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Build or Destroy: People will judge you. why your list of destroyers don't have any mention of people from previous US administration?
Posted by: Man from Malaysia | January 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM
"a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous"
Well Said Mr.Obama. Now it is up to you.
Posted by: Obama Tracker | January 22, 2009 at 11:48 PM