10 Reasons Why The Next President Needs To Be An Organizer

Two of our highly respected organizing colleagues Shawn Kershaw and K.J. McCorry have a wild sense of humor.

Shawn is a corporate organizing consultant from Philadelphia and K.J is an efficiency and productivity expert working out of Boulder, Colorado.  At National NAPO Conference in Reno recently Shawn and K.J. both came up with this fun list for the presidential elections.

The top 10 reasons why the next President of the United States needs to be an organizer:

1. When the red phone rings at 3:00 in the morning, the new President has to be able to find it.
2. It will save the tax payers money. Having an Organizer as President won’t need an appointment secretary, banquet manager, Chief of Staff, research assistant.
3. There would be a constitutional amendment, banning Post it Notes, "Annual Retentive" would be spoken of with pride and there would be no clutter left behind!
4. Organizers are detailed oriented. "Who ordered the 2nd Coke?" "Who ordered the second air strike?"
5. FranklinCovey has new line of planners with the Presidential Seal.
6. An organized would immediately have found the Weapons of Mass Destruction because they would have been filed under W (duh).
7. So, when we have a nuclear attack we are not thinking, "now hmmm where did I put that code?" 
8. At least there is a test to be a Certificated Professional Organizer (CPO).
9. Then we are pretty much guaranteed it will be a woman.
10. Because On Day 1, an organizer president will establish a new National Health Plan, secured Social Security, solved the housing slump, reestablished the US as a Superpower and, IF THERE IS TIME, address Global Warming.

Who says we can’t laugh at ourselves?

Readers– You may not be on the quest for the White House, but what kinds of things have you been able to accomplish with better organization?  We want to hear about your victories.

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