by asikes1 | Mar 17, 2019 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
Striping away any veneer that might still cling, politics is now overwhelmed by emotion, completely. The national government is in charge of over $4 Trillion dollars (much of it funded by debt) in annual expenditures and many services that touch our lives daily. It is...
by asikes1 | Nov 12, 2018 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
Politics past, and especially the recent past, recall the overriding law of the jungle—eat or be eaten. Predators prevail. C.S. Lewis, in Chronicles of Narnia, wrote his youthful protagonists into the jungle where they encountered many perils along with the lion,...
by asikes1 | Nov 9, 2018 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
Chemistry is the answer. No not the chemistry DuPont talks about, but the chemistry that serves up damnably complicated politics and governance in the 21st Century. How has the political chemistry changed as the Super Bowl of politics looms? Notwithstanding President...
by asikes1 | Oct 29, 2018 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
I am finishing up some medical stuff, and in the last several weeks I have contracted a new illness, form-phobia. Doctors, clinics, hospitals, insurance companies, and the federal government all want to know about me, my medical history, my parent’s history and, of...
by asikes1 | Oct 29, 2018 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
I get it; mailing pipe bombs is a problem, no treasonous. But, it is simply a manifestation of a much larger problem. A far bigger problem is the deterioration of the political parties and the absence of responsibility. If political parties are to be judged by their...
by asikes1 | Oct 16, 2018 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
A telling, yet perplexing fact, is how often our aspirations collide with our actions. Drive through a subdivision and read the street signs. How many people live on Peach Blossom Road with no peach trees in sight? At one point the Sikes family lived on Oak Grove Lane...
