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DOS, Left Brain Minds Playing with Fire Metaphors in Windows Times

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A paradigm shift which moves from a Wall Street economic model to a Main Street model just may not work. But when times are this bad, when our way of life is threatened, it is time, now, to have the wisdom, capacity and courage to consider all the options, all the issues, models and possibilities. The "put out THE fire" mentality is a symptom which is the tip of the iceberg, in terms of these "DOS brains" inability to wrap their heads around the holistic, biggest pictures and the idea of simultaneously doing multiple actions.

Military leaders have always had to master multiple actions and issues simultaneously. You have to feed and arm and provide medical care and latrines for warriors. Pundits, on the other hand, are accustomed to dealing with one or two or three breaking stories they have to comment upon with words-- strictly left brain thinking. In these hard times, perhaps their armchair, low caliber ammunition would be better used attacking people who are doing all they can to sabotage the bigger thinking, bigger visioning leaders who are working at dealing with the problems we face-- many of them caused by past failure to deal with the biggest pictures.

Former GE CEO Welch says, when it comes to Obama, "There's no critical thinking. It's a romance." Maybe old titans of industry like him just don't get how different the world is and is becoming. They see the new, multitasking, bottom-up world through top-down, sequential, single track minds and it is blurred and, for them, wrong. But it is THEIR problem and that means their take on our current problems just won't provide the answers and solutions we need today an tomorrow.

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Apt Comparison by Paula Sayles on Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:42:10 PM
THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT A CORPORATION by MARGARET BASET on Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:45:01 AM
Is it really a problem of multi-tasking? by James Brett on Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:54:27 PM
political ponerism by William Whitten on Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:36:43 PM
I could almost believe by Paula Sayles on Thursday, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:15:31 AM
architecture of political power by William Whitten on Thursday, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:24:36 PM
Bill, "decoy" is the two-party, 'Vichy' facade of Empire by Alan MacDonald on Friday, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:43:51 PM
In what do you find I do not accept this premise? by William Whitten on Sunday, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:57:39 AM
No one... by mikel paul on Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:58:59 PM
metaphors by TRADESMAN on Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:22:20 PM
DOS? by Maxwell on Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:00:19 PM
p.s. by Maxwell on Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:02:38 PM
Same game.... by William Whitten on Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:42:26 AM
the top down people know how to multitask by jersey girl on Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:32:17 AM
Single-tasking by Ed Martin on Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:30:37 AM
W's diction by Bill Fay on Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:26:42 PM
Yep by shadow dancer on Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:35:37 AM
original 13th Amendment by William Whitten on Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:22:31 PM
To the 'Weekend Warriors" and "Ninety-Day Wonders" by Bill Fay on Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:11:25 PM
Promotion of democracy-thinking, not empire-thinking by Alan MacDonald on Friday, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:00:08 PM
Metaphor-thinking is the key to ending Empire-thinking by Alan MacDonald on Friday, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:20:42 PM
Metaphore..."Like is not"--Tao by William Whitten on Sunday, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:59:51 AM

 
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