Update: Wingnuts and Lou Pritchett

I’m really indebted to my alert readers. Ronda happens to be getting her graduate degree from USF in the very subject - change management -that Lou Pritchett ( see post: “Open Letter to Obama - This is why we call the fringe right wingnuts”) purports to be one of the foremost experts in.

Here is what Ronda had to say:

I started reading this and I was wondering why I had never heard of this guy. “Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America ‘s true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world’s highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management.”

Heck, I have been studying and practicing change management and organizational development intensely for a several years now. So I pulled out one of the books I use in my grad school program titled, “Organization Change: Theory and Practice” (2002) written by W. Warner Burke, one of THE foremost leaders in the field of change management, to see if Mr. Pritchett was quoted or referenced. This is a textbook introducing and discussing the leading theories in change.

He doesn’t mention Mr. Pritchett or any of his “groundbreaking” work in partnering with other businesses. I read Mr. Pritchett’s website and he sounds like he was successfull in partnering with WalMart to drive sales at P & G, which must have made him a huge hit ($$$) at P & G. I think calling himself a leader in change management is a stretch though.

So, you start off with half truths and it goes on from there…. these politically motivated e-mails get tiring and I rarely read them anymore.

Exactly right, Ronda.

The next time you get one of these self-serving, politically motivated screeds in your email, I suggest you take about five minutes to check it out before you send it on to the next 500 of your closest friends. That’s about all the time it took for me to find out a lot about Mr. Pritchett, and then another 24 hours for my readers to post their comments.

If he stretches the truth about his career path, then it just might follow that he’d stretch other so-called truths as well …

This comes under the heading of my personal motto: Challenge your assumptions.

maven

Comments

[bluelyon]

I have a couple of friends that do this, and yeah, I always challenge them, right or left. I check and then send my findings back. I may be pissing into the Internet ether, but at least I can sleep at night.

[Jerry]

Dear Lou

You are the most recent in a long line of hypocritical corpratist racists I have encountered in my 55 years on earth. Unlike some of the others you don't scare me.

You don't scare me because you are an open book. Easily read and understood.

You don't scare me because even though you have benefitted your whole life from government subsidized public education, government subsidized military, fire and police protection, government susidized highway systems, government subsidized postal services and many other government services - you have joined the legions of hypocritical anti-government propagandists.

You don't scare me because you are the typical self-centered racist who sees American and America only as a reflection of himself.

You don't scare me because you make your living not producing anything of relevant importance but have joined the legions of pro-corporate bloviators like Hannity and Limbaugh and the audience for your ilk is fast decreasing.

You don't scare me because you, as other un-educated people, don't understand that we are a civilian run government and while military service to our nation may be laudable - it is no more honorable than service in any other way (teachers, police...etc).

You don't scare me because you sit in relative luxury while millions go without and denegrate their efforts at rising up from poverty through honest efforts by NEVER lending a hand and blasting our collective (government) efforts to do so.

You don't scare me because it's not so much that you don't have class - it's that you don't even know what it means to have class or character or humility or compassion.

You don't scare me because the radical right wing element you have associated yourself with is a vast minority of our nation and will eventually be purged entirely from our community simply by shining a light on the rocks you dwell under.

You don't scare me because the America: love-it-or-leave-it philosophy you espouse is as irrelevant, misguided an myopic as any we have collectively thrown onto the dustheap of history.

You don't scare me because your supply-side philosophy has (again) been shown to be false by our present economic tragedy cause by laissez-fair policies and that greed is not good and, in fact, only leads to the rich getting richer and the middle class disappearing.

You don't scare me because of people like you we will finally be able to reign-in the corporate pirates who have taken over our government.

You don't scare me because corporatists like you are quickly going the way of the dinosaurs. No longer will the greed of private interests be able to take precedent over the public good.

You don't scare me because through all your hypocritical blustering about a "government controlled" health care system I know you have family and close friends who have benefitted from Medicare or the VA system - both very efficient government controlled healthcare systems.

You don't scare me because with all your wealth and pro oil company stance - you and your childrens' children will have to breathe the same oil-polluted air and drink the same oil polluted water as the rest of us.

You don't scare me because like many un-educated people you seem ignorant of the fact that the reason we became a great nation was due to a tightly regulated business class - not by letting them run roughshod over our communities. Corporations are given license by The People to do business in America to benefit The People. If they don't - they should be shut down.

You don't scare me because your lame attempts at rewriting history will never obfuscate the truth that the strength of America comes from it's citizens acting collectively through its democratically elected government - not any boardroom who hold allegience to only profit.

You don't scare me because you cannot intellectually or morally argue that we are NOT our brother's keepers.

You don't scare me because you align yourself with multi-national pro-corporate anti-American forces. And, like other terrorists set on the destruction of our nation - you will be stopped. Through the one weapon that you cannot own - DEMOCRACY!

[terry maine]

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any
of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. *(but let me continue anyways)

Now that is priceless LMAO