| Nothing gets accomplshed by itself. Even to raise a | | | | worthwhile habits in life. What is a family member, an |
| tent takes planning. The tent. The pegs. The hammer | | | | uncle a neighbor? This person may have inadvertently |
| and tools. And a plan. | | | | set you on the good path. It is much better to learn |
| Yet many people do not understand what you might | | | | from a good role model than have to overcome the |
| consider to be clear to your two year old. "Tell the | | | | mistakes that a poor role model will leave you to |
| truth" and "Don't take what is not yours". Look at a | | | | overcome. Or it may be a person from the outside. |
| simple hamster. | | | | For example one man who grew up in a terrible home |
| A hamster will intuitively know several things that are | | | | environment realized very clearly that in his life his role |
| basic to success in life. | | | | model of note was a math teacher who when |
| First not to be interested in life and inquisitive. Second | | | | discovering that a student was not at an exam |
| not to bite the hand that feeds it. | | | | physically left the school to bang on the girl's door to in |
| Thirdly if you give a hamster some food, say for | | | | effect drag her to school for the test. This person |
| example some sunflower seeds it will promptly hide | | | | clearly stated that his life had been one big party and |
| these items in other words to save the seeds and not | | | | this taught that ""kid, life is serious" Interestingly enough |
| swallow them right away. | | | | this person later went on to a successful career in real |
| Many people you will meet in your travels may repeat | | | | estate and insisted that because of rigorous drillings of |
| simple phrases and slogans such as "Those that do | | | | this math teacher that he was able to quickly calculate |
| not plan - plan to fail" or such truisms as "The job is not | | | | sums in his head to clinch real estate deals. |
| done until the tools (or paperwork) is either put away | | | | Secondly it should be understood that in life people do |
| or finished. | | | | not stop at their level of competence. Organizations |
| Yet the amazing thing is that most of these same | | | | whether it is at your place of work, your church, school |
| people do not comprehend the simple truths your child | | | | or non profit group tend to promote people until even |
| learnt in kindergarten or the hamster seems to know | | | | after trouble begins. Organizational structure is such |
| intuitively instinctively. | | | | people are seldom trained for their jobs. They are |
| How can this be? Why is it that apparently intelligent or | | | | thrust into a position that they are not trained for and |
| in many cases non intelligent people cannot grasp | | | | bumble through. And guess who their role model in |
| these simple and apparent truisms. | | | | their new position. Guess what it is was their |
| The answer comes down to two factors. Firstly the | | | | predecessor of boss who guess what was also |
| examples these people saw in life whether it was | | | | unprepared ann. not trained. The cycle repeats itself |
| from their home and family environment or other | | | | endlessly, the person in many if not most cases stops |
| important role models. | | | | at a level where his incompetence not competence is |
| Secondly in life and in many job or power structures a | | | | his hallmark. |
| person is promoted not to the station that he or she is | | | | It is amazing that if America is held up as the world |
| best at or most competent but rather to the stage at | | | | standard or efficiency and effectiveness in |
| which his terrible incompetence stops that person in | | | | comparison to many cultures and economies. Imagine |
| the organizational structure. | | | | what it is like elsewhere in the world. |
| Think of it who is it that influenced you to good | | | | |