Monthly Archives: June 2021

In the late 1970s the global engineering and construction company Parsons initiated an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) to which 30% of the stock of the company would be allocated. ESOP is a defined contribution retirement plan which is managed … Continue reading →

I had almost completed the first semester of my junior year at UCLA after having graduated from a community college with an associate of arts degree the semester before. It was 1960 I was 19 years old the summer before launching into a … Continue reading →

In 1967 at the age of 26 I accepted an offer at Scripps institution of oceanography in La Jolla California to be Director of contracts and procurement on the now famous Deep Sea Drilling Project. Accepting this offer meant leaving the Chevron corporation … Continue reading →

To survive in the corporation it is important to restrict your communications on matters of  performance to your direct line of reporting. You should only communicate directlywith the chairman of the board or the CEO if the matter involved is … Continue reading →

My recommendation for surviving in the corporation is to pick a niche thing that you have a passion for and hone it carefully so that you are  the very best at what you do. For me this was contracts. At 19 years old I … Continue reading →

In addition to the management responsibilities I held as a manager of other people under me I learned that it was absolutely essential to deal with problem employees swiftly and decisively before they undermined the efforts of the organization or made serious … Continue reading →

From where comes the ideology of critical race theory. That is the theory that systemic racism is to blame for the ills of our society with the minority races being the oppressed and the white majority becoming the oppressors. One … Continue reading →

The radical left, Marxist oriented and Islamic  extremists have in too many instances infiltrated our school boards in the K through 12 school systems. The responsibility for reversing this dangerous trend rests squarely on the shoulders of parents of the students to run for school board … Continue reading →

For his own personal interest and to protect himself against being viewed as a traitor, Dr. Fauci may have consistently lied to the American public about the origination point of COVID-19.First, Fauci signed a grant during the Obama administration as an agent … Continue reading →