Ready, Fire, Aim ... It Is Not Just About Picking Your Battles

Monday Night On Jump Right In with Splash ......

One of my favorite business books is titled Ready, Fire, Aim, by Michael Masterson. The book discusses the 4 stages of a successful business's life cycle. The first stage, of course, is the most harrowing as most businesses fail in the first 6 months. One of the biggest internal obstacles to launching a business is the belief that you need ALL your ducks in a row, before you even test your product's or services's viability.

You do need to line up some ducks ..... the necessary ducks ..... but requiring every single duck to be in place before you make a move can prove to be paralyzing. 

This is the problem I see with the new Elmo majority in Congress. The Elmos passed the XL Pipeline Bill, but then came the DHS bill and the Elmo's insistence that it contain riders to limit the president's executive orders on immigration. Suddenly, this one extra duck has got the whole line of ducks confused, bottle-necked, paralized.

As it relates to 2016, The Keystone Bill and the DHS bill are a perfect contrast between the right road to the White House and the wrong one for the Elmos.

Also on tonight's show, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a wine connoisseur..... I love her even more now.

Now that our combat efforts in Afghanistan are over we will be stepping up our efforts in ..... Afghanistan? Thangs that make ya go hmmmmmm.

And we have to talk about Yemen. In his Purchase of the Union address, the president, as you know, held Yemen up as an example of how his counter-terrorism strategy is working ..... then Yemen fell apart. That's a problem.

All this and more on this episode of Jump Right In!