Indifference leads to indifference.

Some people in strategic leadership positions Face a great hurdle trying to bring new ideas into a company or into society. One of the things that has to be overcome is the indifference of people to except new ideas. The most successful ideas that could be excepted always comes with an incentive, but what if there is no incentive to offer does that idea just float away into the ether? I would say the idea then becomes the incentive itself. In a good marriage there is give-and-take, you take in the groceries and I'll vacuum the carpet, you shoveled the driveway and I'll do the laundry! The give-and-take and the incentives can be endless in a relationship defined as marriage. But should incentives determine whether or not we will succeed in a business venture or not? What about religious organizations? Surley you cannot buy and sell religion as if to go to Walmart and pick up a loaf of bread! The incentives based model may or may not work with religious organizations, unless what those organizations are offering is something that the consumer is willing to buy. For instance what if a homeless person comes into your church this Sunday and asks for money and a place to stay what your organization is offering to provide him, with those things, but I can provide him the solution to his problem if he is open to buy the product that you're selling... And what is that product it's forgiveness of sins! If he is open to having his sins forgiven it's not that you were doing the forgiving but it's that your organization is selling a product that he may or may not want.

Incentive-based religion rely solely on what Jesus did for us on the cross as the means to an end and that end is forgiveness. But what about outside of the religious spectrum, let's say in the family? Are incentives something that we should use with mother father brother sister cousin? Or is the family more sensitive to other aspects of relationship values? I would say the answer is both incentives and values within the relationships. It's not a you'll scratch my back and I'll scratch your back sort of thing.

What is really making inroads in the field of mental health and stress reduction these days has been something that has remained sort of hidden in a shroud over the past centuries, awareness is a concept that we use every day when we're doing things, and to bring capital venture into a society where the society seems to have lost its way is definitely a project for strategic leadership! I can say with confidence that when an idea is rejected it wasn't because the idea was bad or because it was too good to be true, quite the opposite society may not have been ready for such an innovative product. To produce something means that we give all of ourselves to an idea, and that idea can and will backfire when there is resistance from those to whom that idea most likely will produce the most benefit. What a concept or proposal is rejected in this capacity, it produces frustration with in the inventor or the innovator until quite a lot of time passes by, and an ideal logical concept may be developed in the future. Society is in the midst of change at fluctuates constantly, to use old business methods where innovative research is showing to be more conclusively productive, would be to stump your toe with a very blunt object. Old ideas pass and new ideas come but we must be willing to embrace the new ideas in order to progress our industry whatever our industry is! Simply a liberal or progressive attitude will not suffice but being too conservative also may be detrimental to what you were trying to introduce into the mainstream. This is Mike.