Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Foundations- fundamental necessities for organizations

When you ask people what is needed to build a house, building, or other structures larger than a shack, you will hear these words, "footings or a foundation are needed to support the structure." The importance is to generate a secure base to stabilize the upper structure from falling, like houses and buildings. Organizations also require foundations. It does not matter whether the organization be private business-where the foundation usually lays in the founder of the business and the management theory adopted to operate the business, religious-where many sects claim Jesus Christ as their foundation, Catholics with Peter, Muslims with Muhammad, or the Jews with Moses, and governments-their foundations are the documents and law used to form the government. A meeting of the minds is not hard to come by when discussing the need of a good foundation to build successful structures. What is important, though, is the maintenance of the structure and the foundation.

Without proper care and maintenance the elements of time will wear down the structure and eventually become a cancer to the foundation and will have to be torn down and rebuilt if the foundation is still strong. Sadly, sometimes because of neglect and improper maintenance of the structure results in the total collapse of the structure and expose the foundation to the elements, resulting in the need of total rebuilding, if possible. History, however, has shown that the original foundation is unable to be re-exacted, as in the case of the USSR. Though the world is better without the USSR, the people who now compose the Russian Federation could disagree. The reason being, the immoral corruption that, once hidden, is now viewed openly. It is this current corruption running rampant in Russia that is slowly taking the freedom the noble people fought for in the early nineties with the collapse of the USSR. The current foundation that is the Russian Federation, is built upon noble causes, but is not an overtly strong foundation. We see this in the shadow dictatorship held by Putin, which should be of grave concern to America.

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