When we pursue a goal that motivates and is based on our natural talent;
God inspires others to help us.
Why the United States is the World’s Economic Power
Short answer: Under capitalism God has opportunity to inspire visionary entrepreneurs to develop their natural talent and fulfill the purpose they were assigned to when they came into this world. Under socialism God does not have this opportunity because government regulates ideas. Expanded info, this website: Why God Supports Capitalism New website: www.capitalism-god-prosperity.org |
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People who have a vision control their destiny and lifestyle. For people without a vision, their destiny and lifestyle is controlled by others. |
Developing a productive lifestyle for at-risk youth. |
My Quest for Jungle and Sea Adventure LifestyleThe fulfillment of my dreams. It almost did not happen because I was living from payday to payday which made me a slave to my creditors. I took drastic action to change that. |
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Floating down the Amazon River by raft. Click on image for large view. |
Crossing the Pacific Ocean in a dugout canoe with his cat Salty. 5,000 miles from Panama to Hawaii in 68 days. |
Conquering 200 miles of jungle by 2-wheel drive motorcycle between
Panama and Columbia. Photo: Boundary marker on Panama Columbia border. |
Hunky-Dory I self-designed, self-built, and sailed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for three years. |
My Ports of Paradise | Adventure Photos | ||
Photos that Motivate and Inspire |
My employment with the Panama Canal Company, Panama, and their leadership style made the above adventures possible. They gave opportunity and promotions to people with a vision. Their influence inspired all employees. My adventures were written up in the company's bi-weekly news letter.
The following, "Motivation in the Workplace," is my analysis comparing Panama Canal leadership with other employers I worked with.
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21st Century Workplace Leadership
PrioritiesThere are three priorities, CHEAP, QUICK and GOOD. You can have any two.
Note: A single priority increases efficiency. At the other end, if all three elements have equal priority the results are reversed, low quality, high cost, and difficult to finish. This is the result of rotating priorities, which means, no one knows what the goal is. Priority of the moment depends on current mood. |
What is Your Leadership Style?The below efficiency chart is based on leadership styles that inspire or kill creative thinking and the type of people that it will attract. Creative, innovative people are attracted to the upper levels. They like to brag about their contribution, therefore, leadership knows who is doing what. People at the lower level accept the status quo and are yes-people telling leadership what they want to hear. As a result, leadership does not know what is going on. Leadership style in today's fastest growing organizations are at the upper level such as Google Inc. High Efficiency A feeling of job ownership and pride.
Low Efficiency Control leadership kills creativity, communications, blocking the ability to recognize needs or opportunity. |
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"Give a person an idea, and you enrich their life. Teach a person how to learn, and they can enrich their own lives" - Author Unknown |
Barriers People seeking to excel have continuous barriers to overcome. People who flow with the crowd are not confronted with barriers, they take the path of least resistance. Very often these people fall into a pit. It takes more self-discipline to crawl out of a pit than it does to overcome barriers. Maxing out credit cards is an example of a pit. Establishing a business is an example of overcoming barriers. |
Financial Management! The skill that allows us to live the lifestyle of our dreams. Without this skill, we become a slave to our creditors. | |
Innovation, thinking outside the box. | |
Barriers The Box Overcoming Barriers |
Attach a Dream to Your Hero
Opportunity is attracted to people with a dream. They are the first to be hired, first to be offered opportunity, and first to be promoted. Bigger the dream the faster doors open. People without a dream are last to be hired, last to be promoted, and first to be laid-off in a force reduction. For non-dreamers, doors remain closed. "WHY?" People with a dream act differently than non-dreamers, dreamers develop an attitude that radiates energy; they have a sense of purpose and meaning to their lives. Radiant energy is an attitude that bosses like and to which they offer opportunity. This is how the impossible becomes possible. Full text, my story. |
2016 update note: This website was written during the 1990s. Many statements about the future are already happening, but many older leaders are still in the past. Changing with a changing times is difficult for many. The Panama Canal leadership style was established in 1905 which was 100 years ahead of its time. The leadership style was still in place when I was hired in 1963 at the age of 27.
1999 note: The information published at this website is based on my experiences and my analyses. I did some research to learn what others were saying and could not identify with 90% of it. Coming from a different background, I came to different conclusions from popular theory.
In the website I tell about machinists, who are high school dropouts, making high wages. I also tell about machine shop foremen who are millionaires. Researches have asked for my source of information. This type of information is based on local knowledge, not compiled statistics. Statistics are compiled from extremes and dumped into a basket. Society reads the results, compares the blue-collar world to the white-collar world and concludes that there is no opportunity in the blue-collar world. The human factor is, people who make top wages have a career that is in harmony with their natural talent, in a work environment that inspires them to expand their knowledge.
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