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Short Business Lesson on new CEOs

There is a company with a long, proud history of being one of the best brands on the market.  This company has been in business for over 200 years and is one of the best in the world.  Yes, it's had its share of ups and downs but overall is the cream of the crop.  However, the company's CEO is stepping aside to pursue other goals. 

In order to keep things flowing smoothly, the board of directors meet and begin searching for a new CEO.  They spend months and months reviewing resumes and searching for the best candidate.  Finally, the majority agrees on the choice and their selection is made.  They have chosen a CEO different from ones they've had previously, who has some flaws in his past, and his own way of doing things.  However, he does have a successful business background.  After his selection, he begins to get more familiar with the company and prepares for his first day of work. 

He shows up on Monday morning, like many of us starting a new job, excited and raring to go!  He steps into his office and all of a sudden some employees begin to run amuck.  They threaten violence, stop working, and begin destroying company property.  They are blaming it all on the new CEO, saying that he will make things terrible, that he hates them, that he doesn't know what he's doing.  But it's the guy's first day on the job, he hasn't even gotten the seat of his chair warm yet.  Does this story sound fair to you?  Not to me.  But sadly it sounds familiar....#InaugurationDay

I wasn't fond of Barack Obama.  My opinion of him is largely based on his anti-Christian views.  As a Christian, you do not accept other religions.  You accept the people and you witness, but you cannot say that a false belief is okay and stand idly by as people go to hell. 

I'm not a super fan of Donald Trump either.  He excites me from a business and political correctness perspective, but I do have concerns with his temperament and relations with foreign countries.  Overall, I do believe that it is time for America to get our house in order and that seems to be Trump's plan.  I guess we will just all wait and see how that goes.

In closing, no supervisor, no CEO, no president can save you or this country.  Our main problem in America and the world is sin, and there's only one person who ever came to earth with the solution to that. 

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