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Gen. Tommy Franks is now a motivational speaker, giving business seminars called “From the Battlefield to the Business World: Strategies that Get Results.”
No, this is not a joke. You know how tight the business community and the Bush administration are, especially when it comes on putting a morbid spin on the "work hard and believe in yourself and miracles can happen" dictum. Quoth Fred Clark:
Local business leaders have apparently been sitting around in their chambers of commerce wondering, “How can I make my business more of an insoluble quagmire?” Or “In today’s competitive marketplace, how can our company create a situation in which we can never win and never leave?” Or “My employees’ morale is at an all-time low after I lied to them into order to launch a massive campaign they now recognize as meaningless—can I force them to stay and pretend they’re happy with some kind of private-sector variation on ‘stop-loss’?” Or “Our company controls only a tiny sliver of market share, we’re completely reactive and we can’t even safely step outside our fortress-like headquarters, what’s the best way to pretend we’re actually in charge and in control?”
My response: "Do you think they've put up motivational posters all over the White House?"
zingerella, who found it on Electrolite, who found it on Slacktivist...Gen. Tommy Franks is now a motivational speaker, giving business seminars called “From the Battlefield to the Business World: Strategies that Get Results.”
No, this is not a joke. You know how tight the business community and the Bush administration are, especially when it comes on putting a morbid spin on the "work hard and believe in yourself and miracles can happen" dictum. Quoth Fred Clark:
Local business leaders have apparently been sitting around in their chambers of commerce wondering, “How can I make my business more of an insoluble quagmire?” Or “In today’s competitive marketplace, how can our company create a situation in which we can never win and never leave?” Or “My employees’ morale is at an all-time low after I lied to them into order to launch a massive campaign they now recognize as meaningless—can I force them to stay and pretend they’re happy with some kind of private-sector variation on ‘stop-loss’?” Or “Our company controls only a tiny sliver of market share, we’re completely reactive and we can’t even safely step outside our fortress-like headquarters, what’s the best way to pretend we’re actually in charge and in control?”
My response: "Do you think they've put up motivational posters all over the White House?"
