Dear Mr. President,
You’ve often spoken of leadership. It’s critical to be considered a leader. You’ve spoken of being an example, again it’s key to being a leader. You’ve talked to our nations’ youth about being an example, again we look to our leaders to lead and to be an example.
Today, I received this picture of you in an email. The message was clear, you have a lack of respect for the position you hold and for the people you’ve been elected to lead. Mr. President, We The People own that desk that you’ve so casually placed your feet upon. If you were in school, your teacher would tell you to get your feet of the desk. If you were in someone else’s home, they would tell you the same. You Sir, are elected and privileged.
If you truly want us to know that you can lead, then set the example for us all. YOU must remember that it’s the little things that stick in people’s mind. Things like respect for the office you hold and the people you serve. Show US some respect by respecting that which we’ve fought for and purchased. When you disrespect people’s property, you disrespect the people that own that property.
Please Mr. President, keep your feet off of our desk. You’re in our home. Treat it with respect.
On behalf of all the Americans that have helped to pay for that desk, the home you live in and one of our Nation’s greatest symbols we simply ask for the respect we deserve.
DR Rawson, Citizen, Taxpayer and Veteran
From 1985 to 1996 I worked exclusively within the healthcare arena. Working with the State of California, insurers, attorneys, hospitals, large physician practices and individual physicians. Each of these organizations and/or inviduals have a different point of view.
Complicating matters are the cost of insurance for the healthcare provider, legislation that drives up costs to insure compliance and the countless number of mid level companies that provide services to the industry in general.
Not long ago I was in India where Dr. Davi Shettie, a world class surgeon specializing in cardiovascular surgery provided me with a tour of his hospital. It was important to note that the cost of constructing his very large hospital (1,000 new patients per day) was not that much. It also didn’t take that much time. And yet, when we toured the recovery areas, the patient rooms and looked at the number of staff to the number of patients, we were amazed. You’ll not find as many people looking after the interests of the patients here in America. So, is the care in America that much better? I’m not a physician. I can only tell you that as a patient, it would be great to receive the level of care that’s provided in the example given.
Back home in America, especially in California; we’ve lost sight of what we’re supposed to be doing. The process of building a hospital is long and arduous at best. The number of inspections, the number of times that inspectors must inspect, their power, the cost of the simpliest of items, when applied to a hospital environment; it all adds up.
Within our society are some very sick people. These people need expensive care. Not everyone needs that level of care. Shouldn’t charges be based on the level of need? Why can’t we employ a re-insurance mechanism to help defer costs? Why can’t we look for common ground instead of “my ground?” Too many special interests.
I know that this is controversial but we have to start talking more about solutions instead of individual (provider and supplier) needs.
What do you think?
Isn’t the point of any method of communication to be understood? Let me begin by saying I’m not an expert and I don’t hold myself out as one either. I’m the receiver of more than 100 pieces of business email per day. To some, that’s nothing. Even when you add more than 75 junk or spam email to the mix, I’m not a heavy email receiver as are some people I know.
Everyday, I see what should be commonsense completely ignored in the email from companies that want our business. The graphic at the left is good because it reminds us all, or should that the solution is within our own hands.
So, it occurred to me today that perhaps I could be helpful. If others comment, they may be helpful as well. We’ll see. Anyway, here goes. (more…)
Like a business or brand I’ve developed this personal tagline for myself. Frankly, I didn’t wake up to the opportunities that personal branding represented until a friend, Greg Trinidad from Northstar came up with a brilliant idea. He designed a website that identified me as an American with leadership and service. He put a design with my persona.
The tagline has been added to my personal email. I added it about 3 years ago. It’s something I’ve said for years and then one day I realized, it had become my personal tagline. It is something that others identify with me.
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Husband, Father, Grandfather, Son, Brother, Uncle, 32 Degree, K.C.C.H. Mason, Serial Entrepreneur, Possibilist, Chairman & CEO, Leader, Speaker, Philanthropist, Veteran, and Friend.
A successful entrepreneur with 23 companies to his credit, Mr. Rawson is focused on solutions that provide sustainable answers to domestic and global issues. 
