• “THE SINGLE BIGGEST CRISIS FACING OUR COUNTRY IS THE DECAY OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP at all levels of our national life. According to Gallup pollsters, less than 30% have confidence in our institutions ranging from higher education to organized religion, and below 20% with confidence in newspapers, TV news, big business or Congress. America’s core problem today is the superficial and dismissive response of the elites who struggle to lead it and have fundamentally misjudged the global economic and political situation over the last generation by thinking that the world had entered a post-historical utopia even as China & Russia laid the foundations for a formidable challenge to the American order. ‘Trust the technology’ and ‘invest in institutions’ are the message from establishment media, while the state of our society does not inspire a confidence in key social programs.” A comprehensive and discouraging treatise on what needs to happen to counter the widespread belief that Elites have not earned their places through real work, and among the major reasons behind public disenchantment with Elite culture: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/america-crisis-leadership-walter-russell-mead
• Q4 IS, FOR MOST BUSINESSES, WHEN EMPLOYEES EXPECT THEIR ‘EVALUATIONS’ of current performance, next expectations, and targets for advancement along with compensation. A multitude of varying strategies are used by employers, ranging from formal measurements based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), to short or long-forms which measure quantity and/or quality of work as guesstimated by a supervisor, to compilations from summary evaluations of attitude & work behaviors by not only bosses but also co-workers. In theory, year-end bonuses and compensation adjustments would be correlated to the Performance Evaluation, with next-level assignments correlated to both employer and employee objectives. DCG have deep expertise in this process and its relevance to employee value & retention.  Call us for courtesy consult in this process.
• U.S. SOVEREIGNTY OVER ‘COMPLEX GLOBAL SHOCKS’ IS NOW TECHNICALLY DEFERRED TO THE UNITED NATIONS. In September, the Biden Administration adopted a UN Pact which supports a world government as the World Policeman, to “control severely disruptive and adverse consequences – like regional conflicts, any potential pandemic, and discrimination, mis- or dis-information on digital platforms (essentially establishing worldwide censorship) – to impose measures as the UN sees fit. Without debate, media coverage, press releases or interviews, the UN would be given unprecedented power over people in all sovereign countries.   [https://policycommons.net/artifacts/17516570/biden-harris-administration-surreptitiously-signs-up-for-un-world-governance-internet-censorship/18408521/]
• A REALITY-BASED POST-ELECTION LETTER TO AN EDITOR: “Your magazine’s postmortem handwringing about how America is supposedly getting ‘Exactly What It Wants’ makes it clear that Esquire neither understands, or even cares to understand, why millions of Americans chose President Trump, instead propounding the same predictable cocktail of sneering grievances and gloomy predictions—an approach that seems less about insight and more about comforting an increasingly isolated, left-leaning bubble while ignoring a central reality: that Americans didn’t choose Trump because they were somehow ‘duped, but rather because he represented something beyond the Left’s failed policies and condescending rhetoric. Some 72 million Americans rejected the progressive platform they view as threatening to their families, futures, foundations of our country, and a direct threat to their way of life. Your magazine’s unbroken streak of predictably negative, single-minded commentary, continues to cater to an echo chamber that’s become increasingly irrelevant to most Americans —pandering to a dwindling audience that still thinks dismissing half the country is a strategy for the future. But if Esquire really hopes to reach beyond its shrinking echo chamber, perhaps it’s time to actually consider why millions of Americans think you’re missing the point.”
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK:
• Since others their age (12 to 27) talk openly on social media about personally perceived ‘mental health’ problems, Gen Zers want to fit in, and latest survey found 72% of GenZ women and 67% of GenZ men saying that “mental health problems are an important part of my identity and I believe that ever-present discussion is likely to improve them.” So, particularly on X and TikTok, pathologies abound, with users discussing their suffering from trauma/ ADHD/ autism/ neurodivergence/ co-dependency and other new words for otherwise normal human emotions. [WASHINGTON EXAMINER]
•  The simple Election Punchline: “The Deep State, using Biden as its puppet, expanded government exponentially to give themselves more power.  This created the massive inflation of food, gas, housing, etc. prices that Americans eventually voted against.  So, it was ideology that drove the Democrats to defeat, as they applied that ideology – socialism (which never works) – to the American economy and created massive hardships for the people.” [TOWNHALL]