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Archive for July, 2009
Leading or managing?
Jul 27th
Apparently most of the world is divided into a few types of people. By far the largest group is those that need to be managed, then there are those that can manage others and in the smallest of minorities are those that can lead.
I know very few leaders and of the managers that I do know, few of them are good at it. Managers tend to be those that love to be negative and pessimistic, they spend all their focus on trying to do things right without paying any attention to whether or not they are doing the right thing. I have no time for managers, good or bad because the bad one’s make my life hell and the good ones cannot consider other options or other ways of doing things. They care not about being better than they already are, they only care about not becoming worse. Growth is not an option, the only option is not moving backwards, how negative!
Leading is about being the visionary, the one who won’t accept defeat and the one who knows how to be humble when he is defeated. Managers have no idea how to think beyond the boundaries of their experience. Managers may in time become CEO’s but they will never be entrepreneurs. They do not have the internal guiding light to separate themselves from what everyone else is doing and consequently, they become like every other business head void of any real concern or creativity.
I would rather be a leader of one than a manager of many.
The jealousy of men
Jul 26th
It must be said that I am not proud to be a man most of the time. When I see the poor examples of the shoddy, cheating, lying, greedy cavemen around me, I agree with the sentiment that god seriously fucked it up when he created man!
Amongst the thousands of issues I have with the man of today, the one that I feel like speaking about at the moment is how much of his useless life is filtered through his jealous mind.
It’s as if he was put on this earth to rape, pillage and plunder the life and soul out of anything that could infer a weakness in own ability, wealth or status.
One of the best places to see such effects, are in your typical business meeting, you know the type where we try to impress you by metaphorically dragging our dicks across the board room table, taking out a ruler and measuring the mighty sword that has fucked up much of this world.
It’s all about me versus you, us versus them, haves or have nots, the hottest girlfriend, the most woman, the best car, the best LCD TV and the sad excuses at the end of the debauchery.
Now I am not going to sit here and say woman are not like this because that would be bullshit! Woman are are slowly treading the same paths by trying to beat men using the same game, instead of playing their own game, to their own strengths and being better than men by virtue of the fact that they are better than men.
The same clichés, the same stereotypes are more prevalent than ever and will continue to further dominate the increasing divorce rate until people learn to break free from the way they were raised and the excuses they continue to make to justify their behaviour.
You do not have to be the person that everyone else is, you are responsible for your actions and you can change to be a better person. It’s taken me many years to break free from my upbringing’s indoctrinations but I did it first and foremost by realising that indoctrinations existed.
That has to be the first step but of course, the world is too ignorant and selfish to realise a problem in itself so never mind, waste of time….
The boys in blue
Jul 14th
Today, I once again had to go to one of South Africa’s most prize possessions, one of our shining examples of prosperity and justice and a downright fabulous example of the uselessness of certain arms of this country. I went to the police station.
I find it so sad that going to the police station, I was made to feel somewhat embarrassed because my reason for being there was not something akin to rape or murder. It seems lessor issues are precisly unimportant to the SAPS but even worse, the fact that I am white means that I now somehow deserve it or can, at least, afford to deal with it. It’s pathetic.
Those people are supposed to be our knights in shining armour, our saviours in darkness but instead, they are the epitamy of what is wrong with this country. In their eyes, they are above the law and as such, have almost no motivation to implement it. They would rather laugh at you then assist you.
I have lost all faith in our police service over the last few years due to the unfortunate interactions that I or my family has had to have with them. For me it has reached the point where should I need to call someone in the most dire of situations, they will be last on the list.
I am not really me
Jul 1st
I have been monitoring things like Twitter and all these other social networking thingies for a while…I even have my own Twitter account and Facebook account and and and….And you know what I think? I think that you and I almost don’t matter any more. I think that we are all living a vicarious lifestyle through the lives of others approval and that our self-worth is completetly attached to the number of Facebook or Twitter friends we have.
Its quite sad actually how our real world life is being replaced by our Second Life or one of our 150 profiles on all these sites. I am no longer Doron Dusheiko, I am in in fact, www.facebook.com/DoronDusheiko and that URL apparently has more meaning than who and what I really am.
I recently have written a few articles for a some blog sites and have decided to stop writing for anything but my own blog mostly because of the realisation that 99% of everything I read is all bullshit! It’s all about inflating weak ego’s, associating one’s pathetic self-lack-of-image with something that is supposed to be important. In truth, no-one cares about what they write, they say and increasingly, what they do. This worries me and I do not want any part of it. Blogging has become entirely about numbers, promotion, dollars and has completely lost its original purpose of expression. I will not put AdWords or AdSense on my site as it is fucking ridiculous! Who cares if no-one in the entire Internet reads this. Who cares if my SEO descriptions and whatever are not appropriate! Fuck it! It’s all bullshit!!!
Becoming hooked on who is looking at your Twitter account is only going to ensure that you miss out much you could discover in the real world. I dunno, maybe I am a realist, a naturalist or just the usual cliche of wanting to return to the “good old days”. Well, fuck you I am! The good old days meant that people actually communicated, corporations actually did some work and each of us valued our first life more than our virtual life.
To paraphrase something from the movie, Good Will Hunting…”You can read, study and understand everything about the Sistine Chapel, but until you go there, you will never know what it smells like”
