Posts Tagged "congress"
Congress May Not Deserve To Be Hired Again…But You Do!
It is not news that the public’s approval of the job Congress is doing is dismally low. Up slightly from its near single digit low-point the latest Gallup poll has it at a whopping 17 percent. Despite the pathetic performance review, at least 80 percent of those currently serving will be re-elected this November, based on historic averages. Why do we keep re-electing people we don’t believe are doing a good job? Like any employee who is slacking on the job and escapes the pink slip to return another day to collect a paycheck, we can’t blame the workforce for showing-up with a lackluster work ethic for which we keep paying them. (This is not to say that...
Read MoreBullies and Victims Make Us All Losers
With approval ratings firmly ensconced in the single-digits, it is no surprise that Americans are fed-up with Congress. In the announcing of his retirement, long-time member Barney Frank of Massachusetts has become emblematic of the corrosive morass the People’s House has become and his persona a reflection of the daily battles in which our media and elected officials engage. In his latest column, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, details the gruff bully Frank embodied as the caustic Democratic power on the House Financial Services Committee. I have always wondered – what came first the bad attitude or the harsh treatment? All one has to do is read Karl...
Read MoreNeed a Job? Three Steps to Take Now
The fact that millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed is not news. Although we seem to be engaged in Einstein’s infamous trap of ‘doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.’ Policy makers are debating how to entice businesses into hiring more people and the unemployed are angry and frustrated over the lack of available positions. Nearing record-breaking unemployment rates, perhaps it is time to consider a different route to finding meaningful, satisfying, and rewarding work in people’s lives. As we’ve discussed here before, creating jobs won’t help our economy. If you are looking for a job, or know someone who...
Read MoreFind the Authentic Candidate and You’ll Have Found a Leader
Share By: Kathleen Schafer, Founding Principle-Leadership Connection Where have all the leaders gone? Voters ask this question frequently during an election cycle there is never a good answer. While there are many reasons for paucity of leadership coming out of Washington these days, a good one to examine during the mid-term elections is how most candidates get to Capitol Hill. Since the mid-1970’s, the professionalization of politics has become big business for the hoards of consultants that support their campaigns, and I should know, because for years I was one. Mirroring that consultant explosion has been the emergence of the parties’ campaign committees as the...
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