Business Pulse 101

It is not "business as usual" out there. It is desperate survival by small and medium sized companies to maintain what they have accomplished - and if at all possible, increase revenue by creative means. Most companies I know are selling off assets to raise cash for the storm. Most I know are letting people go in an effort to lower their expensive labor base. Most I know are spending less on "like to haves and should haves" so they can pay "the must pays." Most are looking for silver bullets. Few are looking to training right now as a solution to survival and fewer still are considering expansion unless replication. Some are expanding but only through their marketing efforts to existing needs. When 80% of companies are selling some form of "services", it does not take long for manufacturers to decide exactly what services they really need. If your in retail, owners are hoping "the illusion of scarcity" lasts long enough to make some money and store some away before the illusion is gone.

No, I think the mission on the minds of most "awake CEO's" is to batten down the hatches and wait out the squall until the big storm hits...and that storm is fiat currency - ushered in by a formal break in world confidence that the US Gov can pay off its real debts, no matter how much the Fed buys bonds, or creates money from thin air.

Now the old guard says it all is being controlled and managed, and I could not agree more, but for different reasons and certainly different agendas.

My personal estimate of a crisis sometime in the last year of the Obama term. It will be a controlled crisis. It's all in the play book...create a crisis, provide a predetermined explanation that creates a need for radical action/change, then offer a believable solution that leads to a desired social outcome - in this case, that outcome is a final move towards "corporatist socialism." (My term for a new "corporate sponsored, profit based, semi-socialist system") which "places the needs of the collective - as determined by someone else - before the self-determination of the individual. There is already the language of these changes in print and in "standing" executive orders.

Pray People...and Get Involved. There is a "civil war a-brewing" and you will choose sides. Socialism for false security, or Self Determination for liberty. The countdown has started and the winds of social war are stirring.

Training and soft touch feel good programs....not hardly.
It's about creating and releasing corporate wealth.