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Is There An Imposter In The White House?—with an Excerpt from “Hope Is Not A Strategy” GET HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY IN BOOK OR KINDLE VERSION AT: http://www.amazon.com/Hope-Not-Strategy-Leadership-Presidency/dp/1469931044/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332434418&sr=1-5 OR OTHER EBOOK FORMATS AT: Smashwords.com https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/142287 AND GO SEE THE WEB SITE to see the Chapter titles and much more information: http://www.hopeisnotastrategybook.com This is my draft copy of the blog post that was pulled from Forbes.com on Sunday--posted by popular demand. Note: Most of what I pose are the questions that all Americans should be asking. The chapter of our book: Beware the Pretender (excerpt below) describes one kind of "impostor"--someone "pretending to be something they are not--either intentionally or unintentionally. An"impostor" is technically someone pretending to be someone they are not. Like many other Americans I wonder why Barack Obama is keeping so much of his background hidden. "Where there is smoke, there is fire," and where something is being diligently hidden, there is usually something important to hide. Is There An Imposter In The White House?—with an Excerpt from “Hope Is Not A Strategy” ©John Mariotti 2012 There is something very wrong when the sitting president refuses to divulge huge pieces of information about his background. What is he hiding? Maybe the “birthers” were a little extreme, but is there something wrong with this “manufactured candidate,” whose history remains sealed from public view? What is he hiding? Could the “Hawaii birth certificate” be a forgery? Is there something much worse—like “sponsorship” by an unnamed special interest? I don’t know. I do know that the man in the White House now is an imposter. The only question is which kind of an imposter: an incompetent “pretender” or a genuine phony, a “Manchurian candidate,” who is a liberal, ½ black and ½ white, and an obvious Muslim sympathizer (despite claims of being a Christian—in clear conflict with his non-Christian behavior). Will this campaign expose him as the imposter, and the pretender his behavior has revealed? Will it expose his hidden history and murky background. We know about his failures and mistakes. For those who don’t, here is another in this series of revealing excerpts from HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency. The book is now available on www.amazon.com in paperback and Kindle versions. Other in e-book versions are available at www.smashwords.com. Excerpt from the chapter: Beware the Pretender …”No matter how many times President Obama refers to the “problems he inherited,” he has now been in office three years. Certainly many of the current problems can be traced back to events that happened during the eight years that Bush held the top office, and some can be traced back to even earlier presidencies—but far from all of them. Many of the problems are newly created (or made worse), and Barack Obama owns them. Candidate Obama stepped up and essentially said, “I want the job, and everything that comes with it” by running for president. After three years in office, the problems now belong to him and his presidency. He caused them, made them worse, or didn’t solve them. Either way, they are his now. …In leadership, you cannot “pretend” to be a leader. You either are—or you aren’t—a leader. One or the other will become apparent very quickly. If you want the leadership job, you must step up and take full ownership of it. A “pretender” or “poser” is like an actor who has learned all the right lines, but has no idea what they mean. Once the script has been followed (or deviated from), the actor is clueless about what to do next. This is the job of the leader. Unfortunately, in this government, the “directors” often seem clueless, having learned in academia where results and wins/losses are theoretical, or in politics where success (at getting elected) is more a matter of rhetoric than results. If you are not ready for a position, or do not believe that you have what it takes to rise to the challenge (or clean up the mess even if you believe it is not your mess), then do not take the job. This was Barack Obama’s fundamental mistake. He grossly underestimated the difficulty of the position he was running for, and overestimated his preparedness to actually do the job. Just because he could “talk a good game” (thanks to a phalanx of speech writers and the omnipresent teleprompters) does not mean he actually knew what to do or how to do it. The presidency of the United States of America is not a place for heavy OJT (On-the Job-Training)….” After the first three plus years of the presidency, it is painfully clear that Barack Obama was a “pretty face,” and “glib speaker” and a lightweight liberal politician with a community organizer/radical background. The American people should be outraged at this man’s behavior and even his candidacy. Why are they not? Because of the misinformation delivered by sympathetic liberal/mainstream media who loves his nonsensical form of governing. …”Obama’s perceived preparedness for the presidency is a terrible delusion, from which it is difficult to escape. Mistakes build upon each other and result in even more complex problems. Difficult problems that are mishandled become even more difficult to fix. When you have too little experience, lack substance (other than the words of your latest speech), then leading, managing and problem solving simply don’t happen. And that is what has occurred. When you compound the problem by surrounding your self with like-minded theorists, lacking in real-world experience, things become worse yet. The theoretical solutions to problems often don’t work due to the messiness of the real world—and the reasons are almost unfathomable to these rookie executive/politicians. …” What should Americans think about this “imposter?” Will he divulge his true background so we can all see who he is and where he came from—really? If not, is this just a man who should never have been sworn into the office of President in the first place, and who has crippled Americans miserably during his term? Will we continue to believe his misstatements (the politically correct term for lies)? Can he simply use the media to “erase and forget the past three years of misery and missteps?” Or will we learn from his imperialistic behavior and terrible results and throw him out in November? That is what why we wrote HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency. To learn more go to: www.hopeisnotastrategybook.com and sign up—and go to www.amazon.com and buy the book—and see for yourself! There are thirty chapters that reveal what was behind Barack Obama’s mistakes, failures and lack of leadership. ----- John Mariotti is an internationally known executive and an award-winning author. His newest book, co-authored with D. M. Lukas, Hope is NOT a Strategy: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency will be available in March 2012 at www.amazon.com . Mariotti’s 2008 book, The Complexity Crisis was named one of 2008’s Best Business Books. His critically acclaimed 2010 novel, The Chinese Conspiracy, merges an exciting fictional thriller with the reality of America’s risk from Cyber-Attacks. Mariotti does keynote speeches, serves on corporate boards and is a consultant/advisor to companies. He can be reached at www.mariotti.net . Posted at 10:09 AM in Books, WEEKLY NEWSLETTER | Permalink | Comments (0) Technorati Tags: background, birth certificate, birthers, hidden, hope, impostor, Obama, strategy, White House Reblog (0) MARCH 26, 2012 HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY is climbing the amazon best sellers lists. PLEASE! ORDER YOUR COPIES NOW. They make great gifts too! Posted at 03:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Reblog (0) MARCH 25, 2012 Today is the day: Order your copy of HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency. http://ping.fm/QO83S Posted at 01:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) Reblog (0) MARCH 24, 2012 HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency THE TIME HAS COME. HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING (the links to order are posted below). PLEASE BUY A COPY, AND GIVE A GIFT OF A COPY TO ALL THOSE WHO YOU THINK WOULD BENEFIT FROM READING IT. PLEASE ORDER YOUR COPY NOW and BUY GIFT COPIES to be SENT DIRECTLY TO FRIENDS, FAMILY AND COLLEAGUES! We have received a lot of questions about when the book will be available for sale. Officially, our answer has been March 24-25, but amazon has both versions: Paperback and Kindle ebook available on its site NOW--as does Smashwords (for non-Kindle ebook users). Note: Traditional bookstores will not have this book yet--although they can order it within the next few weeks. I am hoping that by giving you a "head start" that you will help influence others to read the book and consider the lessons it describes. Reviewers have called it: "...the most important book of 2012" and “An insightful guide to leadership and management based on examples of stunning failures and what not to do...” and have said, "Every American voter needs to read this book." and "This book gets it exactly right…" NOTE: You can also "Gift" Kindle Books from the Kindle Store. Amazon suggests you do them one at a time--to avoid address mixups--and make sure the book gets delivered to the intended recipient. HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency GET IT IN BOOK OR KINDLE VERSION AT: http://www.amazon.com/Hope-Not-Strategy-Leadership-Presidency/dp/1469931044/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332434418&sr=1-5 OR OTHER EBOOK FORMATS AT: Smashwords.com https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/142287 AND GO SEE THE WEB SITE to see the Chapter titles and much more information: http://www.hopeisnotastrategybook.com (AND CONTACT US IF YOU WANT QUANTITY PRICING FOR VOLUME PURCHASES). Listen to JOHN on BlogTalk Radio too: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkbusinesswithhoward/2012/03/28/john-mariotti-talks-about-leadership ********************** GET HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY IN BOOK OR KINDLE VERSION AT: http://www.amazon.com/Hope-Not-Strategy-Leadership-Presidency/dp/1469931044/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332434418&sr=1-5 OR OTHER EBOOK FORMATS AT: Smashwords.com https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/142287 AND GO SEE THE WEB SITE to see the Chapter titles and much more information: http://www.hopeisnotastrategybook.com Author of the Award Winner: THE COMPLEXITY CRISIS, and the exciting novel: THE CHINESE CONSPIRACY. Come see my blog posts on Forbes.com John L. Mariotti, President & CEO, The Enterprise Group, http://www.mariotti.net, http://mariotti.blogs.com/my_weblog/ Posted at 10:42 AM in WEEKLY NEWSLETTER | Permalink | Comments (0) Technorati Tags: book, hope, leadership, lessons, mistakes, Obama, presidency, strategy Reblog (0) MARCH 23, 2012 This is the weekend. ORDER Your copy of HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency-http://ping.fm/N0CYC Posted at 03:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Reblog (0) MARCH 17, 2012 Obama's Leadership Failures? Go see: http://ping.fm/soGm8 Posted at 10:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) Reblog (0) MARCH 16, 2012 THE ENTERPRISE--WHEN HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH OF THIS PRESIDENT'S DECEPTION? COUNTING DOWN just 9 days TO BUY HOPE IS NOTA STRATEGY: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency at www.amazon.com. OUR GOAL IS TO CONCENTRATE ORDERING OF AS MANY COPIES AS POSSIBLE OF THE BOOK INTO THE "LAUNCH WEEK"--MARCH 25-29. ORDER MULTIPLE COPIES; GIVE THEM TO YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO'S VOTING IN NOVEMBER. I IT WILL BE THE BEST "GIFT" (INVESTMENT) YOU HAVE MADE IN A LONG TIME! TO RECEIVE NOTICE OF WHEN THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE, GO TO THE WEB SITE: http://www.hopeisnotastrategybook.com AND SIGN UP! THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW…OR WANT TO CONFIRM In the 2000's manufacturing productivity grew by 74%, but remember that means more work was done by fewer people. Productivity is critical to competitiveness, but only if that competitiveness leads to creation of new jobs--IN THE USA. If US companies improve productivity by outsourcing, that doesn't help the USA nearly enough. CHINA'S COSTS ARE GOING UP--ESPECIALLY WAGES AND JOB RELATED REGULATIONS Work is moving to other Asian countries, and even to Latin America. Soon some work might actually be headed back to the USA. There is a problem in the US. Over 500,000--a half million jobs remain unfilled in manufacturing, because of shortages of skilled workers in the right places. Instead of just handing out 99 weeks worth of unemployment … and food stamps to 44 million Americans ($72/wk. nearly $300/mo.) it's time to put "WORKFARE" in place of "welfare." Insist that these unemployed people go through training, run by companies who get first rights to hire the graduates, and monitored by the government with subsidies/rebates to employers upon completion, when the people DO go to work. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO BELIEVE THE JOBS FIGURES Government statistics are known to be adjusted after the fact. The question is, in which direction will these be adjusted? Private job estimates for the past two months were only 181,000 and 149,000, not 243,000 and 227,000 published. I don't know which is right--but watch for adjustments coming! On issue is that the hard cuts in employment and the prolonged resistance to hiring, created a pent up rebound in job demand. The big question is, can it hold up with economic growth lingering below 3%. Time will tell. THINGS WE MIGHT NOT WANT TO ADMIT--OR ACCEPT One out of every five Americans relies on federal aid to get food, housing, education or health care. (That includes Social Security and Medicare, etc.) That's 67 million people. Government assistance programs now cost $2.5 trillion per year--70% of the Federal Budget. Worst of all, the US is creating a culture of dependence. The problem is that many pf us--myself included--don't think of ourselves as being part of the Federal budget problem! Even when we feel we are entitled, because we paid into those programs for decades--they are still becoming unaffordable. (Because Social Security funds were not "invested" a "market returns," they have not grown over time, and in fact, have been spent on other government programs. RECOVERY COMING ALONG--SLOWLY, FRAGILE The latest jobs numbers (227,000 jobs added last month, indicate a slow recovery is underway. Consumer debt increased during the month and that indicates that discretionary spending is not keeping up with consumer needs. No doubt more of the consumer's money is being consumed by high GAS prices. We've been down this road once before, back when Bush was President and oil speculation drove up prices at the pump. At that time, it became apparent that a new, better ENERGY POLICY was needed. President Obama's idealistic goal of "green energy" is a noble one--and it is also one that will cause enormous pain and suffering among Americans. Unemployment by the flawed measure remains at 8.3%, but in actuality, is more like 15-16%. New jobless claims have dropped to "only" 350,000 Americans each month--and that is still not a very encouraging level. High GAS PRICES will trim one percentage point from US growth if they stay up, but a mild winter has caused lower heating bills. Lower growth means lower consumer spending and thus lower employment, which means lower consumer income, which means lower consumer spending, which means….get it…sluggishness in the economy? THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEORY AND REALITY "Green energy" simply costs more to produce, and the sources are often far from where it is consumed (wind farms in the Great Plains or offshore (out of sight), solar farms in the SW Deserts, tidal power on the East Coast and hydroelectric in the Pacific NW). Meanwhile huge deposits of oil remain untapped in the ANWR (Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve) and in Canada and the Dakotas (Oil shale). However a PIPELINE is needed to get that oil to where there are refineries (mostly along the Gulf Coast). Unfortunately, the President stalled the Keystone Pipeline for POLITICAL reasons--penalizing Americans in multiple ways--fewer jobs, less oil to refine and more dependency on foreign sources of oil. Meanwhile, the US has plenty of POTENTIAL ENERGY if only it were exploited and used (and that is without increasing reliance on "dirty" coal). Natural Gas is plentiful--and it is found and tapped by DRILLING! All of this would create thousands of US jobs and additional tax revenue to help repair Obama's staggering deficit spending. THE US CAN BECOME ENERGY INDEPENDENT--OF THE MIDDLE EAST, AND HUGO CHAVEZ, AT LEAST If the government would allow (gasp, encourage) drilling and exploration for all of America's vast hydrocarbon energy resources we could be free from the tyranny of OPEC and the Middle Eastern despots, and could actually reduce those unfriendly countries income sources dramatically. Why aren't we doing it? Because we have an appeaser and a Muslim sympathizer in the White House. The threat of the Straits of Hormuz being restricted by Iran would become a much less important issue to the USA. The other parts of the world would become much more aggressive with Iran in that case--relieving the US burden to rein in that rogue country's government. PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS ALL BUT "DISAPPEARED" THE PAST 2+ YEARS OF MISERY IN HIS ARTFUL RHETORIC It's like he's a magician who made the 2009-2011 malaise "disappear" amidst his speeches full of half-truths and outright illusions. He was quick to criticize Bush over high gas prices, but these are not his fault. After all, he only banned drilling and exploration for a couple of years, wasted billions on unproductive, failed green energy boondoggles and most recently, stopped the Keystone pipeline construction--blocking jobs and oil from which US consumers could benefit. The craziest part of this is that IF OBAMA HAD TURNED LOOSE THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY, IT WOULD HAVE CREATED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS AND PAID BILLIONS IN TAXES INTO THE TREASURY. Once again, the Prez. shot himself in the foot due to his unparalleled brilliance. WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE ELECTION? A LOT! CHECK OUT THE ARTICLE POSTED BELOW. The big challenge in Nov. 2012 is for the GOP to HOLD THE HOUSE AND TAKE CONTROL OF THE SENATE, WHILE REPLACING OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE. That's a tall order--but not impossible. Obamacare is still crippling Americans and taking away their inalienable rights to liberty (freedoms). Regulations still overhang small and mid-size job creator companies. Large companies are still hoarding cash, much of it off shore, to avoid the US high tax levels. Growth is still lukewarm at under 3%. 11 million people have simply dropped off the radar of joblessness and go uncounted, while 13-14 million are "officially" unemployed, and countless more are "underemployed." Housing is still way, way down, and still showing very little in the way of growth. This Obama recovery only feels good because what preceded it was so BAD. WE NEED A PROVEN LEADER IN THE WHITE HOUSE --Mitt Romney is a proven leader; a good man; and one who cares about America and knows how to get it on the road to recovery. --Rick Santorum is a passionate young man, but he is both light/narrow on leadership experience and too heavy on social issue zeal. --Newt Gingrich is smart as hell, and meteoric, and will not give up for some time. He's also not electable. --Ron Paul has a lot of good ideas and a lot of strange ones too. He wants to influence the agenda--(and maybe get his son a VP spot on the ticket?) THE REAL QUESTION IS "WHEN" WILL AMERICANS COME TO THEIR SENSES AND RISE UP TO SAY "ENOUGH!" AND PICK A CANDIDATE WHO CAN GET RID OF BARACK OBAMA, HIS DEFICITS, HIS LIES, CZARS, AND HIS APPOINTED MINIONS, (AND THE HARRY REID LED DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE TOO)? I HOPE IT'S IN 2012. BEST, JOHN ********************** NEW BOOK COMING VERY SOON: HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency, co-authored with D. M. Lukas, in paperback & Kindle editions at www.amazon.com GO SEE NEW WEB SITE: http://www.hopeisnotastrategybook.com Author of the Award Winner: THE COMPLEXITY CRISIS, and the exciting novel: THE CHINESE CONSPIRACY. Come see my blog posts on Forbes.com John L. Mariotti, President & CEO, The Enterprise Group, http://www.mariotti.net, http://mariotti.blogs.com/my_weblog/ Posted at 10:39 PM in WEEKLY NEWSLETTER | Permalink | Comments (0) Technorati Tags: HOPE, leadership, lessons, Obama, Presidench, STRATEGY Reblog (0) MARCH 14, 2012 Countdown to launch: HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency. Less than two weeks to buy it on www.amazon.com Posted at 05:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)