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Trust

Trust is in the headlines again.

The recently-departed Governor of New York is recently departed because he betrayed the trust of his State and his family.

The newly-arrived Governor of New York, one day after his well-received and rousing inaugural speech, tells the voters through a series of newspaper interviews that both he and his wife have had extramarital affairs.

Yet another author of a best-selling memoir is exposed as a fraud.

The beginning of the major league baseball season brings with it the off-season stories of steroid use and Congressional testimony and public apologies.

A climate of this kind invites and encourages cynicism, and when that is the prevailing attitude, it is hard to make a convincing case for integrity and quality.

There is always skepticism inherent in the initial negotiations of a service provider like a virtual assistant.  You can display your past performance in an expensive website and offer a page full of referrals, but as in most walks of life, you only truly prove your professional trustworthiness by repeated good performance, every single day.

Integrity is the habit of honesty and fairness, thoroughness and striving for excellence.  And it gives you the ability to stand proudly and comfortably behind results that not only benefited your client, but are the best possible proof that you will perform as advertised.

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Obama and the Racial Divide

With the eloquence we are all now used to, Barack Obama’s recent speech in Philadelphia gave yet another indication that he intends not to walk away from the challenges of our time.

Faced with the incendiary remarks of his pastor, and their instant dissemination in the press, he used the opportunity to present himself and his campaign as a new response to the need to close the racial divide in America. 

Many before him have been able to paint a clear picture of the problem without offering a workable solution.  Indeed, he also characterized himself as an “imperfect” vessel for the task.  But he did admonish both sides to look at the mistakes in their positions and assumptions, and in so doing realize the common ground that has always existed, and the exploitation both sides have been subject to.

One can only hope that such a stance will propel a more meaningful dialogue in this area, because fresh approaches to cooperation are as desperately needed as the solutions themselves. 

That is the real excitement of this campaign.  Critics talk about rhetoric being the engine, but it’s really the idea that we all can come up with a different and productive way of running our country, and presenting ourselves to the world.  Nobody’s talking about a world or a country without problems, without arguments, just without needless deaths, and conflicts with no end, and where an effort to get at the root causes of intractable situations can be made.

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It’s All in the Details

As the Democratic candidates for President debate endlessly, the headlines always concentrate on broad themes.  Who won?  Did either one make an inappropriate remark or show an embarrassing lack of knowledge?  What was their body language like? 

Then we get the sound bites, and by this time, most of us are wearily familiar with the Need For Change vs. the Need To Be Ready on Day One.  But the truth of a candidate’s positions is never found on a carefully lit stage for one place, it’s found on the campaign website where you might find out just how the grand plans we hear about health care and immigration and national security are going to translate into action after the inauguration. 

They say life is in the details, and it’s no less true for the virtual assistant and the small businessman as for the big time politician.  And not only in the sense of doing thorough work for clients, error-free and double-checked, but in the human sense, too.

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