For several years I have been dormant in blog writing, preferring to focus my time on my family, faith, and building the foundation of our Montana Lifestyle after my exit from the corporate machine that was my life prior to 2005.
Living in Montana has been good for my soul. It has been a step away from the pressures and conflicts of life and career in the corporate world of metro America. Life is different here, not necessarily easier but, from my perspective, better, more satisfying.
Only recently have I began to engage again in political and economic discussion, in response to the increasing vitriolic media and often unsubstantiated remarks and opinions of friends, sometimes family, and acquaintances that like to engage in socio-political discussion even they don’t realize that they are doing it.
Those of you who know me know that I am quite reserved, that although I enjoy a lively discussion, I tend to reserve comment and sharing of opinion unless asked or until I of necessity feel the obligation to set straight the course of dialog and or have something that I feel is of worth in moving forward the topical conversation. With regard to socio-political issues, I tend to be slow to comment and like to think out my responses because of the implications and often emotional attachments to opinion of those who chose to converse about such matters.
For those reading this blog who do not know me, I will give a brief sketch that is by no means a complete biography and is possibly, by nature of it coming from my own perspective, somewhat self serving, in order to establish a basis for my own opinions and tenor of discourse.
I am today a Father, Husband, Patriarch of my home, retired senior executive of a fortune 500 worldwide Brand. I was educated within the public education system during the seventies and early eighties, and completed graduate degrees in Psychology and Business administration. I graduated at the top of my classes, was a sterling scholar, and felt that pretty much the only useful thing I learned in college was to hone my logic skills that enabled me to succeed by giving my professors what they wanted regardless of their persuasion. During my many years as a corporate employee, I used the work ethic developed in my youth, combined with logic skills, and with the mentorship of good men and women I worked with was able to ascend the corporate ladder from a store manager in training through the ranks o operational management, into corporate management and eventually senior executive level management overseeing the development and worldwide brand with locations in 28 countries and majority market share in most markets. During my tenure as a corporate executive, I served on various commissions, boards and committees both political and economic. My views are constitutionally conservative; I have no political affiliation, and do allow my faith to guide my views with regard to policy issues. While I have a wide disparity from much of the left leanings of the democratic national party, I have had the honor to serve on the economic and corporate development counsel of the National Council of Black Mayors which is comprised of over 500 Mayors who are in large part affiliated with the Democratic Party. During my time of service I was asked to chair the national corporate development counsel in developing public and private partnership policy at the local and national level. Note: I am not Black nor do I share the affiliation or leanings of the Democratic Party. I mention this to give credibility to the idea that people of differing political and cultural persuasion can work together based on mutual trust founded in integrity, regardless of political persuasion. This is something that seems lost to many of those who are sent to serve us as government representatives today.
Given my exposure to business around the world, my interactions with governments at all levels, and experience in growing and successfully operating companies in various government and economic climates over the past several decades, I feel I have developed a fairly broad sense of what it takes to adapt and flourish individually and as a business in most economic climates. I have studied the socio-political histories of ours and several other societies and while I do not claim to be an expert in any political arena, I do have a set of socio-political opinions that are based on historical foundations of our exceptional country’s constitutional and representative form of government as well as my understanding both historically and in personal experience with other forms of government.
It is with these personal guideposts I have come to this point, observing the discourse of the day, that I will begin this set of writings. I invite a healthy discourse and will in my next post lay out some foundational rules, if you will, to promote an honest and healthy discussion of the issues ongoing. Hopefully you will enjoy, at the very least my musings, and maybe we will learn something together that will shape our opinions and actions as we move forward in life!
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