THE ENTERPRISE: A NEW INITIATIVE & SHARING "THE WHOLE TRUTH"

I GET SO MUCH GOOD STUFF FROM PEOPLE, IT'S HARD TO DECIDE WHAT TO SHARE

Today I want to cover two kinds of topics: one is personally mine; the others are from material I've received or read that is very good--"the whole truth," as I describe it.

IF YOU OWN A COMPANY, RUN A COMPANY OR DEPT., OR WORK FOR A COMPANY (or not-for-profit organization) THIS SHOULD INTEREST YOU

Since most of my Board spots and consulting work is done—board companies sold, consulting clients on their way to profitable growth—I have an abundance of time to think. In fact, that time to think is the major advantage I have over people who still own, run or work in companies (and I guess five decades of successful experience might be another).

I have thought long and hard about what I enjoy doing, that is also beneficial to others. I enjoy helping companies figure out:

1) how to be more competitive—strategically and tactically;

2) how to grow, profitably;

3) how to make more money (on existing sales);

4) how to build an organization of "A" players, AND

5) have them involved, engaged and passionate about their work—and their business—your business

WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT HOW THE THE DISTANCE DIRECTOR—that's me—COULD HELP YOU

When these five things happen, "Life is Good," for you, for me, for employers/owners—and for the USA (because growth leads to revenue and that leads to all kinds of other good things.)

The only aspect of my multiple board spots that was getting old and tiring was the travel required. If you've sat in an airport watching your flights be delayed, cancelled, re-routed, etc. you know what I mean. If you've been caught in a traffic jam trying to get from the airport to wherever your meeting is being held, or just waited in a huge taxi line, you get it. Thus I said to myself: How can I construct a situation that lets me help companies and people, but minimizes an undesirable (and costly) aspect of doing that--business travel.

Here is the solution I devised: The Distance Director™ (please read on!)

Download DISTANCE DIRECTOR

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A DISCUSSION THIS WITH ME--OR KNOW SOMEONE ELSE WHO IS (OR SHOULD BE), PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.

NOTE: I'm taking a little R & R at the end of August, so please either contact me "soon" or wait until after Labor Day…either way.

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NOW TO SHARE SOME OF "THE WHOLE TRUTH"

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO NOT MENTION THE PRESIDENTIAL RACES THAT ARE HEATING UP

Hillary is quite simply a criminal on so many levels, that someone must go after her for it. Obama is sitting on the fence waiting to see how it plays out, bus make not mistake: he is no friend of Hillary's. If Obama jumps ship, look for Biden (or another hand-picked successor) to get in the race with the backing of the White House and a sitting president. There are no other real Democratic candidates--a sad commentary on how bleak that party's talent base has become.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon. I don't think he'll go all the way to the nomination and general election. He will decide at some point that it would be better for him to be a "king-maker" for the GOP in a winning effort, throwing his loud voice and support base to a slate of candidates he likes and respects. (Rather than losing because of his long list of negatives/detractors.)

Who would that be? Who might Trump choose to support?

OK…I'm known for going out on a limb months ago for Marco Rubio. I'll add one more name now: John Kasich. He is a perfect "complementary" companion for Rubio: experience, older, compatible but not exactly the same ideology, less charming on the stump but direct, honest, practical and passionate (at times). Rubio has deep knowledge in foreign affairs, has a well thought out plan of his own, and his is a good resume for his relative youth. He is also Hispanic (Cuban), and is articulate, an engaging, and at times charming, speaker. These two also cover OH and FL, the two states the GOP MUST WIN to elect a president.

Who takes the top spot? Not sure yet…but write it down: KASICH-RUBIO (or if you prefer) RUBIO-KASICH. YOU READ IT HERE.

IF Hillary doesn't get arrested, indicted or convicted, I'd still love to see these two facing her on the campaign trail.

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PLEASE SHARE THIS STORY WITH YOUR HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AGE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN

With all the notoriety of Bernie Sanders "Socialist" Democrat and the Liberal Socialistic leanings of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, this is timely. It is likely that the teachers in schools who are 90% liberal are telling students in high school and college how great Socialism's (they might not call it that) equality and fairness of equal sharing can be. They might call if "Progressive" policy. It is all BUNK. Never worked, never will. Much of Europe is reeling from this now--especially France!

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked well since no one would be poor and no one would be rich, thus providing a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on the Socialist plan".... All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they likewise studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one was motivated to study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward (and risk) is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will work really hard to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this there principles)

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation. (THE CORE OF THE OBAMA DOCTRINE)

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AN EXCELLENT RECAP BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

The worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history

By Charles Krauthammer
Opinion writer July 2 at 7:36 PM

The devil is not in the details. It’s in the entire conception of the Iran deal, animated by President Obama’s fantastical belief that he, uniquely, could achieve detente with a fanatical Islamist regime whose foundational purpose is to cleanse the Middle East of the poisonous corruption of American power and influence.

In pursuit of his desire to make the Islamic Republic into an accepted, normalized “successful regional power,” Obama decided to take over the nuclear negotiations. At the time, Tehran was reeling — the rial plunging, inflation skyrocketing, the economy contracting — under a regime of international sanctions painstakingly constructed over a decade.

Then, instead of welcoming Congress’ attempt to tighten sanctions to increase the pressure on the mullahs, Obama began the negotiations by loosening sanctions, injecting billions into the Iranian economy (which began growing again in 2014) and conceding in advance an Iranian right to enrich uranium.

It’s been downhill ever since. Desperate for a legacy deal, Obama has played the supplicant, abandoning every red line his administration had declared essential to any acceptable deal.

Inspections.
They were to be anywhere, anytime, unimpeded. Now? Total cave. Unfettered access has become “managed access.” Nuclear inspectors will have to negotiate and receive Iranian approval for inspections. Which allows them denial and/or crucial delay for concealing any clandestine activities?

To give a flavor of the degree of our capitulation, the administration played Iran’s lawyer on this one, explaining that, after all, “the United States of America wouldn’t allow anybody to get into every military site, so that’s not appropriate.” Apart from the absurdity of morally equating America with the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism, if we were going to parrot the Iranian position, why wait 19 months to do so — after repeatedly insisting on free access as essential to any inspection regime?

Coming clean on past nuclear activity.
The current interim agreement that governed the past 19 months of negotiation required Iran to do exactly that. Tehran has offered nothing. The administration had insisted that this accounting was essential because how can you verify future illegal advances in Iran’s nuclear program if you have no baseline?

After continually demanding access to their scientists, plans and weaponization facilities, Secretary of State John Kerry two weeks ago airily dismissed the need, saying he is focused on the future, “not fixated” on the past. And that we have “absolute knowledge” of the Iranian program anyway — a whopper that his staffers had to spend days walking back.

Not to worry, we are told. The accounting will be done after the final deal is signed. Which is ridiculous. If the Iranians haven’t budged on disclosing previous work under the current sanctions regime, by what logic will they comply after sanctions are lifted?

Sanctions relief.
These were to be gradual and staged as the International Atomic Energy Agency certified Iranian compliance over time. Now we’re going to be releasing up to $150 billion as an upfront signing bonus. That’s 25 times the annual budget of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Enough to fuel a generation of intensified Iranian aggression from Yemen to Lebanon to Bahrain.

Yet three months ago, Obama expressed nonchalance about immediate sanctions relief. It’s not the issue, he said. The real issue is “snap-back” sanctions to be reimposed if Iran is found in violation.

Good grief. Iran won’t be found in violation. The inspection regime is laughable and the bureaucratic procedures endless. Moreover, does anyone imagine that Russia and China will reimpose sanctions? Or that the myriad European businesses preparing to join the Iranian gold rush the day the deal is signed will simply turn around and go home?

Nonnuclear-related sanctions.
The administration insisted that the nuclear talks would not affect separate sanctions imposed because of Iranian aggression and terrorism. That was then. The administration is now leaking that everything will be lifted.

Taken together, the catalog of capitulations is breathtaking: spot inspections, disclosure of previous nuclear activity, gradual sanctions relief, retention of nonnuclear sanctions.

What’s left? A surrender document of the kind offered by defeated nations suing for peace. Consider: The strongest military and economic power on earth, backed by the five other major powers, armed with what had been a crushing sanctions regime, is about to sign the worst international agreement in U.S. diplomatic history.

How did it come to this? With every concession, Obama and Kerry made clear they were desperate for a deal.

And they will get it. Obama will get his “legacy.” Kerry will get his Nobel. And Iran will get the bomb

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EVER WONDER WHY BARACK OBAMA (and White House Staff) ALWAYS REFERS TO ISIS AND ISIL?

Here's why, and as usual, he has an agenda behind it.

(From one of my correspondents--a good explanation)

The Sinister Difference Between "ISIS" and "ISIL"

Here is an explanation of the difference between the terms ISIS and ISIL.  I have been suspicious of the term ISIL to which the administration stubbornly clings.

ISIS = Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Iraq is to the east of Jordan (shaped like the hatchet) and Syria is to the north.
ISIL = Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Iraq is still to the east of Jordan, and "the Levant" is a term that comes from "the rising (of the sun, i.e., to the east)" - and is basically the land along the Mediterranean - that includes Lebanon, Israel, and those countries along there.

By saying ISIL, you "negate" Israel as its own country and lump it in with the rest of the countries along the Mediterranean - and Israel sort of disappears (loses its sovereignty) and becomes part of "the Levant " - which is therefore part of ISIL.

If you've wondered, as I have, why all government agencies and especially BHO calls it ISIL and even spells it out every time it's used, instead of ISIS as the rest of the world here's the answer. Decoding Obama's speech reveals some startling revelations. In one press conference after another, when referring to the Muslim terror super-group ISIS, United States President Barack Obama will use the term ISIL, instead of their former name ISIS, or current name Islamic State.

Have you ever wondered about that? Here is the difference: What makes up the near exact center of the Muslim Levant ? Israel.  ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant.

When Barack Obama refers over and over to the Islamic State as ISIL, he is sending a message to Muslims all over the Middle East, that he personally does not recognize Israel as a sovereign nation, but as territory belonging to the Islamic State. Now you know why Obama says that he has no plan, no goal, and no stated aim for dealing with ISIS.

But he does have a plan, and it's a really nasty, diabolical one. Obama's plan is to drag his feet for as long as he can, doing only the bare minimum that Congress forces him to do. His plan to buy ISIL as much time as possible to make as many gains as they can. Listen as Obama and his press secretary and the spokesperson for the State Department and his Joint Chiefs of Staff painstakingly spells out the letters I-S-I-L so there is no doubt in your mind.

And it's working.

The Islamic State has garnered millions of dollars, a vast cache of weapons, and in their latest foray have captured Syrian fighter jets and now 12 commercial passenger planes. With each passing day that Obama fulfills his stated aim of doing nothing, the Islamic State grows by leaps and bounds. The ultimate goal, of course, has not changed and will never change.

The ultimate goal is the destruction of Israel.

Now you know a little bit more about why Obama chooses his words so carefully. "A Jew who votes for Obama is like a chicken who votes for Col. Sanders."