Welcome
I am a freelance writer and international consultant, committed to providing informative articles and advice based on my experience. My areas of expertise include: government performance audits, accountability, good governance, health, business, religious/political history and social justice. My work has been featured in a number of public financial management journals in recent years.
Favorite quotes:
"No matter how beautiful the strategy, one should occasionally look at the results" -- Sir Winston Churchill
However, as accountants & auditors have discovered, it's often not that easy because:
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." -- James P. Wesberry, Jr. Thus we need dynamic ways of measurning and evaluating performance and feeding the results of that measurement with recommendations for improvement back to Management. If requisite actions are not considered and taken it must be reported to the people and their representatives.
Since I began my career as an operational/performance auditor in the public sector, I have had the opportunity to travel and work in many countries of the world - in all continents except Antarctia. During those years I have come up with some my own perspectives on the history of the progression of culture=>religion=>governance=>economy and how they interact, our market-based economy in transition, and social justice. I would like to share my points of view with each of you. If you have a suggestion or counter position that point or on a related area for an article, I would enjoy sharing and exchanging those ideas with you. The method is Socratic. I am building on some of these concepts first as articles, and then amplifying them with case studies into books that can hopefully serve as supplemental reading for students and the general public.
My vision:
"What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world, so that someday, if we are blessed with the chance to look back on our time here, we can know that we spent it well; that we made a difference; that our fleeting presence had a lasting impact on the lives of other human beings."
-- President Obama's eulogy for Senator Ted Kennedy, August 29, 2009
Lavra Monastery, Kyiv. Photo taken from bell tower by Jim Hamilton
