Jack’s Winning Words 10/19/07
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” (Churchill) Here’s advice from a world renowned leader and strategist. It can work in business enterprises, in volunteer organizations and in our personal life. What are the results? That’s the key question. ;-) Jack

FROM MOLINER, G.S.: Remember the words of Peter Drucker: "People give money to results." Not needs, for there are needs everywhere. But they want their giving to bear fruit.

FROM R.I. IN BOSTON: In alll that I do I get excelllent resullts

FROM GOOD DEBT JON: Proverbs 14:15: The gullible believe anything they're told; the prudent sift and weigh every word. It is not enough to occasionally look at the results, we must think our actions through to their ultimate conclusions—to sift and weigh every word. Are the 14 or more Rent Seekers, of both parties, pandering for President so mesmerized by the beauty of their vision that they will forgo considering the consequences to the nation as a whole? If Marx was correct that “religion is the opium of the masses,” then, perhaps, political campaigns are the Prozac of the Electorate—with the side effects of: loss of memory, inability to read or understand history, inability to add negative numbers, and yet with enough medicinal effect to overcome apathy to vote for he or she who panders best.

FROM B.S. NEAR ORLANDO: Irene is on the phone right now telling Mr Feeney, and Mr. Martinez how to vote on various subjects. earlier in the week she spoke with Mr. Mica. She always adds and I speak for My husband. She has told me many times she thinks M r .Chruchhill was exceptionally brilliant. So you see we do have agreements on certain people. So, O.K., I fully agree with Mr Churchhill and hope other people get to recognize this brilliant person. What a gift to the people from the Good Lord., may he give us more gifted people, especially those who will share with us. A good example of how the Swedes are spening the money made on dynamite that is blowin g apart the world, is the noble prizes. It is rather ironic, I think.--

FROM REV. J.S. IN MICHIGAN: With our ultra liberal leadership in the ELCA, the results are steady decline....do you suppose that is simply coincidence??? We very much need to look at the results....but not at them alone....there are several bottom lines for us in the church....the biggest is faithfulness. I think that the membership decline, however, points to a lack of faithfulness.

FROM MOLINER, C.F.: How can you avoid seeing the results if the strategy is so beautiful? Results is what prompts strategy.

FROM F.M. IN WISCONSIN: I don't know if I mentioned it, but I am reading the book FRANKLIN AND WINSTON by Jon Meacham. One of the points in the book is how Winston was so adept at using strategy to accomplish his own agenda. The delay in opening the 'western' front until 1944, for which Stalin was so insistent, was accomplished by Churchill, even when Roosevelt and the American Generals agreed with Stalin.