The Life of a Fieldmarshall
January 24, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is the marshaling or situational organizing role that reaches the highest development in the Fieldmarshal. As this kind of role is practiced some contingency organizing is necessary, so that the second suit of the Fieldmarshal’s intellect is devising contingency plans. Structural and functional engineering, though practiced in some degree in the course of organizational operations, tend to be not nearly as well developed and are soon outstripped by the rapidly growing skills in organizing. But it must be said that any kind of strategic exercise tends to bring added strength to engineering as well as organizing skills.
Fieldmarshals search more for policy and goals than for regulations and procedures.
Hardly more than two percent of the total population, Fieldmarshals are bound to lead others, and from an early age they can be observed taking command of groups. In some cases, they simply find themselves in charge of groups, and are mystified as to how this happened. But the reason is that they have a strong natural urge to give structure and direction wherever they are – to harness people in the field and to direct them to achieve distant goals. They resemble Supervisors in their tendency to establish plans for a task, enterprise, or organization, but Fieldmarshals search more for policy and goals than for regulations and procedures.
… They are likely to be good at systematizing, ordering priorities, generalizing, summarizing, marshaling evidence, and at demonstrating their ideas.
They cannot not build organizations, and cannot not push to implement their goals. When in charge of an organization, whether in the military, business, education, or government, Fieldmarshals more than any other type desire (and generally have the ability) to visualize where the organization is going, and they seem able to communicate that vision to others. Their organizational and coordinating skills tends to be highly developed, which means that they are likely to be good at systematizing, ordering priorities, generalizing, summarizing, marshaling evidence, and at demonstrating their ideas. Their ability to organize, however, may be more highly developed than their ability to analyze, and the Fieldmarshal leader may need to turn to an Inventor or Architect to provide this kind of input.
Although Fieldmarshals are tolerant of established procedures, they can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective in accomplishing its goal.
Fieldmarshals will usually rise to positions of responsibility and enjoy being executives. They are tireless in their devotion to their jobs and can easily block out other areas of life for the sake of their work. Superb administrators in any field – medicine, law, business, education, government, the military – Fieldmarshals organize their units into smooth-functioning systems, planning in advance, keeping both short-term and long-range objectives well in mind. For the Fieldmarshal, there must always be a goal-directed reason for doing anything, and people’s feelings usually are not sufficient reason. They prefer decisions to be based on impersonal data, want to work from well thought-out plans, like to use engineered operations – and they expect others to follow suit.
Fieldmarshalls root out and reject ineffectiveness, inefficiency, and are impatient with repetition of error.
They are ever intent on reducing bureaucratic red tape, task redundancy, and aimless confusion in the workplace, and they are willing to dismiss employees who cannot get with the program and increase their efficiency. Although Fieldmarshals are tolerant of established procedures, they can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective in accomplishing its goal. Fieldmarshals root out and reject ineffectiveness and inefficiency, and are impatient with repetition of error.
Help Stop SOPA / PIPA from breaking the internet
January 12, 2012 Activism Leave a comment
You know, it’s probably appropriate that my 1st blog post in this new environment is about piracy and intellectual property. I know many of my clients choose not to get involved with politics, and that’s cool. But, sometimes political things become so big they threaten the very fabric of society. Now, it’s not like the Internet has been around forever. Sure, many of us around 40 (“Generation X”), remember a time when there was no Internet; there weren’t even home computers. Forget about mobile anything.
So, its understandable that a lot of people our parents age, now running Hollywood, see things from a very old-fashioned perspective. However, treating the future the way you treated the past… That ain’t going to work.
If you don’t want me to use your digital property, keep it off my computer screen. That is your job. If I find it on my screen, it’s mine.
First off, even the term “intellectual property” is an oxymoron. Anyone with half a brain understands that ideas are not property. Those things that come from the human imagination are gifts to the universe. And, any attempts to put a monetary value on those gifts inherently restrains the power of the gifts. Besides, those ideas came from someone, or somewhere, else. Nobody lives in the vacuum of space. In order for society to advance, everyone on the planet must have equal access to the gifts of the human mind. That’s where the priority should be. In balancing that huge resource of neurodiversity for the betterment of all. Not just those who have built a better cage.
Secondly, there is a huge issue of semantics. What’s really been stolen here? Are the Hollywood entertainment companies missing anything that exists already? If someone is stealing their movies how are they able to show them? And, loss of “potential” income? Have you seen the crap Hollywood produces lately? Talk about a derivatives bubble!
If you thought the mortgage industry was rife with derivatives problems, you haven’t been paying attention to what Hollywood’s been cranking out lately. Nothing but derivatives; sequels, comic books, existing books, remakes, prequels and the list goes on.
So, for starters, most of the “product” is crap. It doesn’t pass as art, and it doesn’t make money as a business. That’s crap. Just because you spent $50 million to make a movie, doesn’t mean that movie is worth $500 million. It means you’re an idiot who spent $50 million to make a movie. Here’s an idea; control your costs! Stop paying talent so much. Take more risks. Get your buddies in the insurance industry to figure out that they are strangling your creativity with their aversion to risk.
I digress. Back to my original “secondly.” If you don’t want me to use your digital property, keep it off my computer screen. That is your job. If I find it on my screen, it’s mine. If you don’t want people duplicating your property, or reverse-engineering your designs – keep them off the network, dumbass.
This video will give you a little background on how the government’s Stop Online Piracy Act came to be …
Help Stop SOPA / PIPA from breaking the internet
