GCC Has The Winning Strategies For Today's Leaders And People Of Good Will!
Strategies That Will Fix, Not Only
America's Organizations And Institutions
(Including The Family Unit)
But Also
Those Of The Rest Of The Globe . . .
And
In The Process,
Improve
Society At Large!
GCC
Has The Solutions!
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Welcome To GCC's Website!
This Website Is About GCC's Unique Strategies Designed To Achieve
Excellence And Success
For All Types Of
Organizations And Institutions,
Regardless Of
Size Or Mission!
BUT THAT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING!
GCC
NOT ONLY
Makes The Rational Connection
BETWEEN
"Decades Of Irresponsible Conduct And Behavior Within The Global Culture"
AND
"The Alarming Downward Trend In Effective Honorable Leadership
Within
Many Of Society's Organizations And Institutions". . .
BUT ALSO
Provides
"The Real Solutions!"
Once The Nature And Extent Of
"The Real Global Crisis"
Is Known,
Which This Website Reveals,
THEN
Organization Leaders, World Leaders And Good People Throughout Society
Can Do Their Part To Reverse This Devastating Trend
That
Plagues
America And The Rest Of The World!
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GCC provides the first no-nonsense, no-spin approach for solving the REAL GLOBAL CRISIS - - A CRISIS THAT HAS BECOME THE MOST DAMAGING INFLUENCE, NOT ONLY ACROSS SOCIETY MORE GENERALLY, BUT ALSO REFLECTED IN THE DIMINISHED AND STILL DECLINING QUALITY OF MANY OF TODAY'S ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS GLOBALLY!
It is a CRISIS that has been allowed to intensify and flourish on a global scale because of a LACK OF RECOGNITION AND/OR CONCERN among PEOPLE IN GENERAL, and an EVEN MORE SERIOUS LACK OF LEADERSHIP - - ESPECIALLY HONORABLE LEADERSHIP - - among today's LEADERS and OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF INFLUENCE WHO HAVE NEGLECTED THE REAL CRISIS FOR MUCH TOO LONG!
Both LEADERS and many PEOPLE throughout the globe FAIL TO FULLY AND ACCURATELY RECOGNIZE BOTH THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE REAL CRISIS OR THAT SUCH A CRISIS EVEN EXISTS!
This Website Delineates,
For The Very First Time
In The Context
Of
Today's
Organizations And Institutions
And
Society At Large,
Not Only
The Complete Picture Of What Comprises
The
REAL CRISIS,
But Also
Provides The Very
SOLUTIONS
That,
IF IMPLEMENTED,
Could Potentially,
For The Very First Time And In Very Positive Ways, IMPROVE
SOCIETY
TOGETHER WITH ITS
ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS,
AND
THUS
THE
QUALITY OF LIFE
FOR
PEOPLE
GLOBALLY!
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GCC believes that the REAL CRISIS, covered on this website, constitutes the root of most, if not all, of today's most serious national and global problems!
It can be summarized as follows:
The REAL CRISIS Stems from decades of declining values, the results of which have negatively influenced the thinking and behavior of many people globally including those in responsible positions of Leadership and Influence!
As a result, there exists, today, the Absence of Principled Competent Leadership among many of today's Leaders and others in positions of influence!
This lack of Leadership occurs not only in Government and Business, but also in other types of organizations and institutions including, for example, Not-For-Profit, Faith-Based, etc., Organizations.
Also important to include - - as this Website will demonstrate and affirm - - is the FAMILY UNIT, the most fundamental institution of society where positive values should have been implanted and cultivated but too often were ignored if not subverted!
A Look Back At The Major Contributing Factors
Regardless of what many misguided Popular Culture adherents, enthusiasts, advocates, and revisionists would have us believe, it is Irrefutable that the "Family Unit" constitutes Society's Most Fundamental And Vital Institution!
Unfortunately, as Society evolved - - especially, but certainly not only in the more recent decades among the more developed nations - - the Traditional Family Unit began to diminish in status and significance among too many, as the result of the following:
First, the Anti-Establishment Onslaughts Of The 1960s that eventually spread worldwide and led to a decline in the practice and observance of honorable values and codes of conduct!
Then came the rejection, by many, of marriage itself!
Eventually, even parents began to gradually neglect fulfilling their primary leadership and nurturing roles in the family unit, as they pursued other interests more to their own personal liking!
Then the quality of schools, began to decline after the 1950s. In the public schools, their was a dramatic upswing in bad behavior followed by crime, violence, and drugs!
In parallel, student behavior in many colleges and universities continued to worsen to the point that can best be described as morally bankrupt. Too often, little, if any, EFFECTIVE leadership was employed by the institution's administration. Student groups began to exercise their "presumed rights" in ways that eventually, in the eyes of the general public, diminished both the reputations of the students as well as that of the institutions whose administrations too often capitulated.
NOTE: The "presumed rights" mentioned above were often (not always) the result of misguided decisions of the courts, including the Supreme Court, whose opinions -- not unlike the general population -- were too often split along ideological biases, with the added element of couching their language in legalese.
What, then, Is Needed?
What is urgently needed today, is a commitment, not only by people more generally who by their example and interactions can potentially influence others in positive ways, but also, by LEADERS in today's Organizations and Institutions of all types (e.g., government, private sector, faith-based, etc.) who, by their very positions of leadership, can potentially exert a very positive influence on the lives of many. This assumes, of course, that the core values of the leaders themselves are an important part of their personal character and very lives!
People of Honorable Character including Those In Positions Of Influence In Government and In Other Types of Organizations should commit themselves to restoring and upholding fundamental principles such as:
A Stable, Enduring Family Unit as one in which, Character and Honorable Values are introduced and practiced.
It should later be supplemented by a responsible elementary and secondary formal education in which TEACHERS reinforce, not replace, the continuing positive values introduced in the home!
NOTE: New Enforceable Guidelines for U.S. Schools will be required to ensure that curricula and other programs, particularly those of more recent decades, are in line with Sound, Responsible Academic Principles and Honorable Values, an approach that individual States should implement!
GCC's "No-Nonsense Approaches" can make this happen without the typical long, drawn-out processes that never seem to become a reality, and, if they ever do, the implementation is usually deficient:
It Is
Called
"EFFECTIVE HONORABLE LEADERSHIP"
(A Term GCC Will Repeat Often)
In Which Government Officials
At The
Executive Levels
Of
National, State and Local Governments Begin To incorporate
Effective Policies In Their
Education Systems
That Produce
Graduates Who Are, Not Only Academically
"Book Smart"
But Also Who Have Been Educated In A School Environment Whose Leaders and Teachers Reflect The
POSITIVE VALUES
That Are Vital For
Building and Reinforcing
HONORABLE CHARACTER
In Their Students!
A Note About
Colleges, Universities, Vocational, Schools Etc.
GCC
Emphasizes
The Importance Of Character Training
In
The Home
Followed By
Reinforcement In The Pre-School, Elementary, and Secondary Schools!
But It Shouldn't End There!
Both
Public And Private
Colleges And Universities
Should
REQUIRE
Basic And Advanced
"Character/Values Development Courses"
As Part Of Their
Core Curriculum!
In Addition,
They Should Institute
And
ENFORCE
A Code Of Conduct
For Both
Students And Faculty
That Is Based On The Highest Standards of
Moral And Ethical Behavior
AND
Devoid Of
Liberal Biases
That Experience Should Have Told Us,
Time And Time Again,
Not Only
"DO NOT WORK"
But Also,
Contributes To
Creating
A
REBELLIOUS AND DISORDERLY
SOCIETY!
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The Family Unit, together with Primary and Secondary Public and Private School Systems and Institutions of Higher Learning as recommended by GCC, constitutes Society's best opportunity for preparing its young people to become Responsible, Principled Members of Society, who, over time, will become Tomorrow's Leaders, Professionals, Employees, and Entrepreneurs.
Mass media outlets also have a responsibility! Television, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, the Internet, etc., can and should be key resources for conveying programming, public service announcements, and other content in support of:
A Society based on Stable Family Units and Marriages, and whose Leaders are Principled and perform Honorably and with Integrity!
if we are ever to see positive change in Society, it will take the Leadership and Influence of Principled Leaders And Others Whose Lives Are Grounded In Integrity and Honorable Character.
Such people need to step up and take responsibility as Society's Most Valuable Resource For Achieving Positive Change!
This Website Will Also Demonstrate How Too Many Of
TODAY'S
Leaders,
And
PEOPLE MORE GENERALLY,
Are Themselves Complicit,
Perhaps Unwittingly In Some Cases,
For The Very Problems
That
Society
Faces Daily!
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Principled Leadership Is Indispensable In Society to ensure the success of Organizations and Institutions Of All Types!
However, Principled Leadership has, in varying degrees, given way to the catastrophic maneuvers and consequences that the popular culture of recent decades has hoisted on Society, while many Leaders and People of Honorable Character sat (and continue to sit) on the sidelines paying little attention to the dangerous effects that the Counter-Culture Movements, especially (but not only) those of the the 1960s and later, were inflicting on them and on Society At large!
But that's NOT all!
The Family Unit, Society's Most Vital, Basic Institution was one of the casualties of those Damaging Counter-Culture Movements! Parents must revitalize the Traditional Family Unit and reclaim their vital responsibility of equipping children with positive values, in a safe and happy environment, so that the children are afforded a better opportunity of becoming, principled and responsible members of Society.
The Government also has an interest in encouraging and supporting stable and happy family units, if for nothing more than to promote stability in Society for which it has a compelling interest and responsibility.
Such a vital responsibility on behalf of Society should also be reinforced by public policy, public service announcements, and a return to more laudable general programming and other content on television, radio, and the Internet!
TO DO ANYTHING LESS
WOULD BE TANTAMOUNT TO COMPLETELY
IGNORING
THE REAL CRISIS IN WHICH SOCIETY FINDS ITSELF TODAY:
A Society In Which Tax-Supported Human
Resources In Government Engage In
Counter-Productive And Divisive Political Demagoguery, Breach-Of-Trust Activity, And Failed Or Marginally Satisfactory Governance . . .
A Society In Which Large Business Organizations
That Were Once Deserving
Of Respect And Admiration,
Find Themselves, Today, In Decline,
Mainly Because Of The Reprehensible Legacy Of
The Last Six Decades
Manifested By The Absence Of
Integrity And Honorable Values
In Today's Culture
That Has Had An Adverse Affect On,
Not Only
Today's Leaders, Executives, And Managers,
But Also On People In General . . .
A Society In Which The Media,
Particularly, But Not only, News And Opinion Broadcasts From TV Networks Of All Types
Who ,Today, With Ever-Increasing Frequency Report
And/Or Rerun Out-Of-Context Excerpts
That Purposely Misrepresent The Views And Positions Of Others, Even, At Times, To The Point Of Grossly Misrepresenting Situations And/Or Damaging Reputations!
WHILE ALL OF THE ABOVE COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE, IRRESPONSIBLE,
VALUES AND CHARACTER-LACKING ACTIVITY CONTINUES WITH EVER-INCREASING FREQUENCY,
THE
REAL CRISIS
CONTINUES TO IMPERIL SOCIETY, WHILE NO ONE EFFECTIVELY PURSUES
THE
REAL SOLUTION!
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So What Is The REAL SOLUTION?
AUTHENTIC
HONORABLE
LEADERSHIP
of the type that GCC proposes
Which
Will Serve
To
Encourage and Advance
A
Society
Whose People
Learn To
Understand and Develop
A Set Of
ESSENTIAL, HONORABLE
CHARACTER TRAITS,
And Then,
Through Continued Practice,
Apply Those Positive Traits,
In
Their Work
And In All Aspects Of Their Lives!
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GCC's no-nonsense, no-spin, logical, innovative strategy for achieving SUCCESS, not only in LEADERSHIP, but also in the areas of effective MANAGEMENT and PROBLEM SOLVING is UNIQUE in that its very design is based on GCC's OWN PERSONAL APPROACH THAT EMPLOYS THE POWER OF SIMPLICITY, LOGIC, AND INTEGRITY IN SOLVING PROBLEMS AND ISSUES NO MATTER HOW COMPLEX, DIVISIVE, AND DESTRUCTIVE THEY ARE OR MAY APPEAR TO BE!
Today, not only so-called experts in the field, but also LEADERS AND PROSPECTIVE LEADERS in business, government, and other types of organizations too often TALK in terms that capture the imagination of their audience. But when the time comes for ACTION, they either FAIL TO FOLLOW THROUGH AND DELIVER or their so-called solutions SIMPLY DO NOT WORK.
Why?
Because of a LACK OF CHARACTER AND HONORABLE LEADERSHIP QUALITIES IN THE LEADERS THEMSELVES who may have never been sufficiently exposed to what AUTHENTIC HONORABLE LEADERSHIP requires:
"A NATURAL TALENT AND STRONG DESIRE FOR LEADING AND FOR CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THE HUMAN RESOURCES AVAILABLE ARE EQUIPPED WITH THE ESSENTIAL
HONORABLE CHARACTER TRAITS
AND
TECHNICAL KNOWHOW
THAT ENABLE THEM TO COMPLETE
ANY UNDERTAKING
SUCCESSFULLY, EFFICIENTLY AND ECONOMICALLY,
AND
WITH THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF
EXCELLENCE AND INTEGRITY!"
IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN
ON ITS OWN!
HONORABLE CHARACTER TRAITS
SHOULD BE
INTRODUCED AND LEARNED
IN THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE FAMILY UNIT!
WITH THE PROPER TRAINING, THEY SHOULD CONTINUE TO INVEST THEIR TIME AND ENERGY UNDERSTANDING, ADOPTING, PRACTICING, AND APPLYING THESE POSITIVE VALUES IN WHATEVER THEY DO.
WHEN CHILDREN ARE RAISED IN
WHAT SHOULD BE A LOVING AND CARING
FAMILY ENVIRONMENT, IT IS THE PARENTS THEMSELVES WHO SHOULD BE CARRYING OUT THEIR VITAL PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES,
WHILE SERVING AS STRONG POSITIVE EXAMPLES FOR THEIR CHILDREN!
THE
REAL CRISIS
IN TODAY'S ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND IN SOCIETY AT LARGE
WILL NEVER BE SOLVED UNTIL RESPONSIBLE
LEADERS AND OTHERS ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTENCE OF WHAT SHOULD BE THE OBVIOUS:
A POPULAR CULTURE WHICH TODAY REPRESENTS THE MOST WIDESPREAD, SERIOUS, DEMORALIZING,
CHARACTER-DISPARAGING CRISIS
THAT, IN MANY DESTRUCTIVE WAYS, HAS IMPACTED EVERY INDIVIDUAL IN SOCIETY, AMONG WHOM ARE
TOO MANY OF TODAY'S LEADERS
AND OTHERS WHO POPULATE OUR
INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
WORLDWIDE!
IT IS A CULTURE THAT WEAKENS
ALL SENSE OF
GOOD CONDUCT AND BEHAVIOR, NOT ONLY IN THE FAMILY, BUT ALSO IN THE WORK FORCE AND IN SOCIETY AT LARGE . . .
A CULTURE THAT CONSTITUTES THE VERY ROOT OF MOST OF TODAY'S PROBLEMS THAT HAVE BEEN IN OUR MIDST FOR DECADES!
LEADERS IN BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER ENTITIES WHO BELIEVE THAT THE POPULAR CULTURE
HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW
THEY
LEAD AND MANAGE THEIR ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS OR HOW THEIR STAFF, EMPLOYES, AND OTHERS CONDUCT THEMSELVES ON A DAILY BASIS,
THEN
THEY ARE
SERIOUSLY MISTAKEN!
GCC SIMPLY ASKS THAT LEADERS DEVOTE A
LIMITED AMOUNT OF THEIR TIME TO
SERIOUSLY CONSIDER THE
STRATEGIES,
APPROACHES, AND SOLUTIONS THAT
GCC
OFFERS ON THIS WEBSITE!
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GCC's Website should raise the awareness in LEADERS of the urgency, importance, and significance of restoring and reinforcing those CHARACTER TRAITS which are so vital for re-energizing, not only themselves, but also the people whom they lead - - equipping them to strive for, achieve, and maintain the highest possible level of EXCELLENCE in what they do.
Also important to highlight is that LEADERS, THEMSELVES, MUST SET THE EXAMPLE by how they and their managing staff conduct themselves, and how they execute good and effective governance, exercising the HIGHEST INTEGRITY!
Conclusion
GCC's Fundamental Approach:
- IMPARTS AND IMPACTS, in an innovative way, how people should conduct themselves with civility in the workplace and in the public arena - - and, as a byproduct, improve all aspects of their lives and that of others.
This approach reinforces, and in some cases introduces for the first time, the essence, benefits, and necessity of HONORABLE CHARACTER in individuals - - CHARACTER that allows them to conduct themselves effectively and with integrity on behalf of an organization or institution in which they are employed.
A natural progression of the above is that employees, for example, would also apply the CHARACTER TRAITS in the way they conduct their lives more generally -- an extension that would represent a giant step forward for IMPROVING SOCIETY AND THE CURRENT STATE OF THE POPULAR CULTURE.
- FOCUSES EMPLOYES on recognizing and getting to the very crux of problems that organizations and institutions of all types, both private and public, experience daily, and motivates them to stay focused on achieving solutions.
- SIMPLIFIES THE RECOGNITION AND DELIVERY OF COST-EFFECTIVE, BOTTOM-LINE SOLUTIONS that transform the "deep-seated, status-quo, business-as-usual workplace culture" - - a culture that is so common and counter-productive in today's organizations and institutions of all types.
Under GCC's approach, as the FALLOUT of the Popular-Culture Legacy of the past six decades that has negatively affected nearly every aspect of life in today's society is addressed, and the damaging effects acknowledged, together with the reality of its devastating impact that continues, with greater intensity throughout society even today, THE ENORMOUS POTENTIAL FOR MEANINGFUL CHANGE BEGINS TO BECOME CLEAR:
Executives, managers, and employees at all levels should finally be able to understand and take steps to reverse the damaging effects that the FALLOUT of the Popular Culture Legacy has caused for Society At Large, and which continues, even today, given the way people - - including today's Leaders and Employees - - too often irresponsibly and even criminally conduct themselves, not only in the work environment, but also as members of society at large.
It is a FALLOUT that, not only negatively impacts performance and the bottom line of organizations and institutions worldwide - - a REALITY never recognized as the underlying REAL CRISIS - - but also that impacts so much of society worldwide.
- INCORPORATES a workable, long-term integrated and coordinated solution, that, for the first time, ALSO CONTRIBUTES TOWARDS IMPROVING SOCIETY AT LARGE in a transformation that over time effectively leads to the achievement and perpetuation of the highest level of excellence and bottom-line success, WITH INTEGRITY INTACT.
- APPLIES TO ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS OF ALL TYPES both Private-Sector and Government, and to the FAMILY UNIT, which is in dire need of ATTENTION and REINFORCEMENT AS THE BASIC INSTITUTION OF SOCIETY -- -- REINFORCEMENT BY PARENTS THEMSELVES AND BY OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS, AND FAITH-BASED, SOCIAL, AND SECULAR INSTITUTIONS.
For LEADERS, Specifically:
Irrespective of what LEADERS may have been led to believe in the past, and in addition to any specialized experience and expertise which they possess or for which they may have been specifically employed in their current leadership roles, LEADERS should EMBRACE and EMPLOY four fundamental responsibilities as LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVES:
FIRST: Influence through a Set Of Honorable Character Traits And Core Values That Which EXEMPLIFIES, IN THE LEADER, A PERSON OF UNQUESTIONABLE INTEGRITY!
SECOND: Understand, Restore, and Reinforce In Others, through appropriate, effective, focused training, the lost, weakened, or never acquired, CHARACTER TRAITS that should be expected of individuals - - CHARACTER TRAITS based on TIME-HONORED VALUES that serve to INSPIRE and MOTIVATE an individual to achieve the highest level of excellence and bottom-line success of the type that, not only benefits ALL STAKEHOLDERS, but also promotes, through Good and Honorable Leadership, the coming together of people with varying opinions to successfully complete the task at hand!
THIRD: Ensure that the highest degree of Required Leadership Competencies exist in the present senior management and, through them, that the required Technical And Administrative Competencies exist in other managers, staff, and employees more generally, who are the ones with the daily responsibility of carrying out the mission!
FOURTH: Ensure that the Organization or Institution's Review, Assessment, and Rewards System and its administration is highly effective and, under no circumstances, assume that the mere existence of a review/merit system, even if conducted on a regular basis, necessarily means that the system is effective in its administration and final objective!
A
FINAL
THOUGHT!
For Those
Who May Find It Unusual
For
A Website That Contains
"Strategies For Improving All Types
Of
Organizations And Institutions"
To Also Direct Attention
To
"The Importance And Significance
Of
Defining, Addressing And Improving
The Rapidly Declining State Of Society
And
The Damaging Culture
It Represents" . . .
THE
CONNECTION OF THOSE TWO,
As Demonstrated
Throughout This Website,
IS
RELEVANT
AND
HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT!
GCC
IDENTIFIES
THE
REAL CRISIS . . .
A
CRISIS
THAT HAS BECOME
THE GREATEST THREAT TO
SOCIETY
AND
ITS
ORGANIZATIONS
AND
INSTITUTIONS!
GCC
ALSO
PROVIDES
THE
SOLUTIONS!
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