Greetings fellow humans! Today's topic regards the tests for leadership that begin as soon as you complete your first year of apprenticeship [if you 'pass', you get a raise! Hooray for 'competence'...]
Testing: Once you are completed your first year [full year] of apprenticeship you will be tested to insure your competence and craftsmanship. Your test score will directly affect your PAY.
Efficiency and attention to detail will be rewarded while points will be taken off for sloppiness and neglect. One must first MASTER one's chosen vocation before advancing up the ladder into management and it is here that the dividing line exists. Testing UP TO the Master level is compulsory, once you have attained mastery the tests become 'optional'.
If mastery eludes you changing careers/divisions might be advisable. Persistent quality issues might also dictate a fresh path but eventually the right 'fit' will be found. [In, er, difficult cases a new re-evalutaion process may be undertaken.] If it happens too frequently in the same region the educational process will fall under scrutiny and the Uh-oh squad will pay a visit.
These are issues that will be addressed on the regional level but if the problem crops up system wide, the entire educational network will be overhauled.
A society that teaches its children nonsense is doomed to fail...but we aren't here to dwell on YOUR education, political or otherwise.
Transition is a process and not a destination.
Something that seems to have stopped almost forty years ago is the process where we evaluate whether or not we have hit our goals as a society.
Zero irony that this, er, 'oversight' is traceable back to the dawn of the Civil Rights era, around the same time money seized control of the political process.
But let us return to the testing process as it climbs to the pinacle not of 'power' but of 'responsibility'.
As the 'ladder' suggests, each rung adds new responsibility and new skill sets to be mastered. Under a 'deliberative' model, one would be given 'ample time' to master each level but we don't have unlimited time or immortality before us [yet.]
As humanity evolves, leading to a different future perhaps the process can be slowed to allow for a more 'mature' approach but in the here and now the focus will be on preventing the stagnation that kills social development.
VISION is the 'essence' of leadership! While it is tempting to charge into the unknown, guns ablazing, true 'vision' foresees the consequences of recklessness and plots a more 'sustainable' course.
In this statement you have just been handed the 'key to success' in the competition to become humanity's next leader.
It's right there in front of you and the word is 'sustainability'.
The problem with 'More for Me' is that it's not sustainable. We are exhausting resources four times faster than we should be just to keep the feckless in the lap of luxury...for doing NOTHING!
[That's another way of interpreting what scientists calculate is our resource expenditure rate as that of four PLUS Earths!]
The mission ahead is two pronged, one is becoming more efficient and two is the task of 'reclaiming' as much as we can of that which has already been squandered.
'Job security' all around! [Except for the feckless who will be sent on a 'journey of discovery' where they will explore new vistas in 'self reliance'.]
That said, those who are successful in climbing the leadership ladder will demonstrate their fitness for leadership by selecting critical issues facing society to tackle and proving their solution will both benefit and advance all humanity into a more sustainable future.
Ironically, capitalism as managed by the feckless is wasteful in the extreme, that is why we need the 'alternative' for capitalism, YESTERDAY!
Thanks once again for opening your mind and letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Testing: Once you are completed your first year [full year] of apprenticeship you will be tested to insure your competence and craftsmanship. Your test score will directly affect your PAY.
Efficiency and attention to detail will be rewarded while points will be taken off for sloppiness and neglect. One must first MASTER one's chosen vocation before advancing up the ladder into management and it is here that the dividing line exists. Testing UP TO the Master level is compulsory, once you have attained mastery the tests become 'optional'.
If mastery eludes you changing careers/divisions might be advisable. Persistent quality issues might also dictate a fresh path but eventually the right 'fit' will be found. [In, er, difficult cases a new re-evalutaion process may be undertaken.] If it happens too frequently in the same region the educational process will fall under scrutiny and the Uh-oh squad will pay a visit.
These are issues that will be addressed on the regional level but if the problem crops up system wide, the entire educational network will be overhauled.
A society that teaches its children nonsense is doomed to fail...but we aren't here to dwell on YOUR education, political or otherwise.
Transition is a process and not a destination.
Something that seems to have stopped almost forty years ago is the process where we evaluate whether or not we have hit our goals as a society.
Zero irony that this, er, 'oversight' is traceable back to the dawn of the Civil Rights era, around the same time money seized control of the political process.
But let us return to the testing process as it climbs to the pinacle not of 'power' but of 'responsibility'.
As the 'ladder' suggests, each rung adds new responsibility and new skill sets to be mastered. Under a 'deliberative' model, one would be given 'ample time' to master each level but we don't have unlimited time or immortality before us [yet.]
As humanity evolves, leading to a different future perhaps the process can be slowed to allow for a more 'mature' approach but in the here and now the focus will be on preventing the stagnation that kills social development.
VISION is the 'essence' of leadership! While it is tempting to charge into the unknown, guns ablazing, true 'vision' foresees the consequences of recklessness and plots a more 'sustainable' course.
In this statement you have just been handed the 'key to success' in the competition to become humanity's next leader.
It's right there in front of you and the word is 'sustainability'.
The problem with 'More for Me' is that it's not sustainable. We are exhausting resources four times faster than we should be just to keep the feckless in the lap of luxury...for doing NOTHING!
[That's another way of interpreting what scientists calculate is our resource expenditure rate as that of four PLUS Earths!]
The mission ahead is two pronged, one is becoming more efficient and two is the task of 'reclaiming' as much as we can of that which has already been squandered.
'Job security' all around! [Except for the feckless who will be sent on a 'journey of discovery' where they will explore new vistas in 'self reliance'.]
That said, those who are successful in climbing the leadership ladder will demonstrate their fitness for leadership by selecting critical issues facing society to tackle and proving their solution will both benefit and advance all humanity into a more sustainable future.
Ironically, capitalism as managed by the feckless is wasteful in the extreme, that is why we need the 'alternative' for capitalism, YESTERDAY!
Thanks once again for opening your mind and letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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