THIS FOURTH BLOG: "The Vita"

                                              Mr. H. Jeffery Harris, Vita

H. Jeffery Harris is a native Kansan, Alumnus of the University of Kansas, and the Jayhawk Football Program of ’65-‘67. Harris began his professional career as a Social Advocacy Planner in Kansas City, Missouri, and after migrating to Oakland, California, for a career with the Xerox Corporation Harris began what some score as a stellar business career.

With Xerox Corporation, Harris held numerous management positions. In Dallas, Texas home of the Xerox Office Products Division, Harris served as the Director of Strategic Planning and Operations. This Market Development Group pioneered the Information Technology movement within the office, through the development and introduction of the Xerox Personal Computer. With senior management responsibility for strategic planning, engineering, finance and marketing support, Harris helped lead the most successful product launch in the history of the office products industry up to that time – a product introduction taking in over 150 million dollars in orders during the first sixty days alone. As he is fond of saying, “Information Technology began at Xerox not at IBM; we beat them by six months! It took opportunity, timing and most of all leadership. As a group we led a marvelous and historic effort.”

After a decade long tenure with Xerox, Harris along with his partners started HARAH, Inc., a distributor and retailer of all major Personal Computer brands. As Vice President of Ericsson of Sweden, Harris helped to introduce this worldwide provider of IT Systems to the USA market. Harris later orchestrated the leveraged buyout of BG Aero Structures, a Wichita, Kansas based aircraft parts manufacturer. By this acquisition, BGA became the largest manufacturing company of its type in the world – in equipment assets, employees, and the amount of acreage under roof, owned and operated by an African American businessman. Harris is the only African American in the United States, to have owned and operated a Business Journal newspaper. With 25 journalists and staff the East Bay Business Journal of Oakland, California, was launched in October 1996.

Harris has a true affinity for entrepreneurship, having owned companies in manufacturing, wholesale distribution, computer retailing, food service franchising, computer service, publishing and mergers and acquisitions. As a Transformation Strategist, Harris has aided numerous entrepreneurs and minority firms in change discovery, and in the execution of organization development and operational strategies; re-positioning firms for continued growth. Over the years Harris has taught fundamental business leadership principles and strategic business planning in seminars, created or assisted in developing volumes of business plans, and facilitated in the Disparity Studies leadership process. Harris is member emeritus of the Turnaround Management Association.

The passion for business is only exceeded by the zeal that Harris has to better the lives of children through education reform and he has participated in writing numerous Charter School proposals and in the development of Charter Schools. His reform activities in California and speeches on the topic of education reform focus on student personal accountability through a process of self-discovery, via his A Meaningful Life Curriculum and strategies for personal growth. He is an advocating voice for a Debt-less Education, if America is to maintain a global advantage.

Harris has five children: A Stanford University Masters graduate son, a genius son engaged in discovery, a Parsons School of Design graduate daughter, a daughter and junior attending Eugene Lang College – The New School for Liberal Arts; as well as a daughter and freshman attending Metropolitan State University-Denver. An ordained minister and motivational speaker, Harris is author of “Become Perfect” a call for spiritual reformation in the Church of America.

THIS THIRD BLOG IS: "THE THING ABOUT TRUTH"

                       "THE THING ABOUT TRUTH"

The thing about truth is that in the absence of belief truth remains unchanged. Truth does not depend on belief or on opinion to be what it is. Truth does not care about human acceptance for truth simply is what truth is. Truth is just there and forever the same in order to be truth. Very often truth is not what a human being prefers. Human beings very often prefer opinion. Opinion can be framed, shaped, molded and made to fit desire and want.

The thing about truth is that opinion can never be superior to truth because truth as all basis is, is that which comes first: opinion comes to questions truth and attempts to re-frame truth; to confuse change and cover up truth. The human being seeks to bend truth to human will and can not because over the process of time truth will be revealed in the end to be truth. That which it always was. Opinion seeks to make truth comfortable acceptable and easier on the will of the human being. This in order for human behavior to be acceptable in the heart of the human being. Still truth does not change to fit opinion for truth really does not care about acceptance opinion or the eyes of human beings. Truth can not even change truth so how could the human being ever change it? That is the thing about truth: it is unchangeable.

The thing about truth is that it is not dependent upon a human beings perception. Truth is not dependent upon human discovery or being found or seen to be truth. Truth is real unto itself and the human being must endeavor to recognize truth as real truth through a discovery process rooted in truth seeking. Not for the purpose of opinion making. Not in human perceptions, but rather through impartial dedicated relentless human discovery, let truth reveal the truth.

"To the end of the earth let me sail, let me fall off the ledge let me fail if flat the earth is; yea, in my quest for the truth let me die if not round the earth be!" Let this be the rallying cry of the truth seeker. Yes, the thing about truth is that truth is the beginning and is the same at the end if ever truth was truth. Truth is perfect complete final and very often by the human being hated. Truth is what is actually real and all too often feared.

THIS SECOND BLOG: Is from the Preface of my book "BECOME PERFECT."

                                                         Preface
Do you believe in human perfection? If not, why not? Are you like those who believe such thought is foolishness and a waste of time? If perfection were possible, would becoming perfect be entirely too much trouble, I mean, based on some likelihood of a personal cost? Would there be any value in becoming perfect? If you have thought about it, what type of person do you think a perfect human would be? Would they even be likable or beneficial? How would you describe a perfect human being?

Would they be fat, skinny, black complexion, white complexion or maybe something in between? Would this person be smart and funny, pretty or handsome, strong or weak, beauty or geek, or something altogether different? Or would they be tall and shaped in the manner that television suggests is a perfect build for a human being? In your thinking, would physical attributes have anything at all to do with a human being who is perfect? If becoming perfect were possible, is this something that you would consider as desirable? If it were possible are you interested? In my search for a meaningful life, the search has produced what some say are interesting answers to these questions. So I put it in a book. Perhaps these answers will have meaning in your own search. Here are some teasers of what is in this book.

First, there is such a thing as truth and it is actually not gray, as many people desire. Truth is actually very plain. Truth does not depend upon you having heard it at all. Or, that you have heard it over and over again, framed or formed by some type of brainwashing and social indoctrination. For truth does not require anyone’s belief or explanation for it to remain what it is. In the absence of belief, truth remains unchanged. Though revealed or not, heard or not. The earth is not flat though believed flat until truth was revealed. Belief never mattered for roundness to be truth.

Second, if you let it, truth leads to a meaningful life. When one arrives at the doorway of a meaningful life, what is found behind the door is also truth. Third, when you apprehend what is truth, a meaningful life can be attained. You will absolutely become a different person than you were yesterday, if you were not already engaged in truth. Fourth and final tidbit – you can become perfect, which has nothing at all to do with the physiological and has everything to do with God and the things of truth. God desires that we can become perfect, that we also live a meaningful life daily. And God has furnished the way for perfection to happen if this is something that we also desire.

Brother H. Jeffery Harris Author
Lawrence, Kansas, October 26, 2007

Become Perfect: THIS FIRST BLOG: Is from the Cover Flap of my book...

Become Perfect: THIS FIRST BLOG: Is from the Cover Flap of my book...: THIS FIRST BLOG: Is from the Cover Flap of my book " BECOME PERFECT. " "If one were to actually apply the Spirit, indeed t...

THIS FIRST BLOG: Is from the Cover Flap of my book "BECOME PERFECT."

"If one were to actually apply the Spirit, indeed the principles of Christ to the Christian Faith and through that prism, view the functional definition of Conservatism, then, one can only judge that Christian Conservatism is a shadow. It is not real.
          Evaluating through the prism of fruits from conduct, one must conclude, that Christian Conservatism is not Christ-like in conduct by its leadership, or in the movements results.
          Represented by the so called Religious Right, as a movement with fruit bearing conduct, Christian Conservatism, has done enormous damage to the Christian Faith in America. Indeed the Christian Faith has been high-jacked by the Religious Right!
          Causing some who may have proclaimed the Faith, such shame of association, they prefer “Spiritual” as their label, rather than Christian. Yet, they believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior.
          Webster defines Conservatism in this fashion: “The disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change.”
          The Church of America must indeed become the reality of Conservatism as to the Faith, not the shadow of it. An Almighty God has called and chosen, a lowly, unheard of Black Preacher from Kansas, to bring a word of correction unto the Church of America, as the end of effort draws nigh for those born prior to the year 1950.
          In this hour, it is these folk who represent the great burden on the Christian Faith. At top of mind for this particular generation, is the compelling history that leaves America as a divided house; with manifold divisions as the prism for viewing the world.
          The Religious Right has become the loudest voice of this divide; as a shadow within Christian Conservatism. Which by its fruit as a movement in America is not actually conservative by definition, but rather it is radicalism!
           In this radicalism, of shadow within a shadow, the adherence to the commandments and traditions of Jesus Christ have become marginalized.
           Within the pages of Become Perfect, Brother H. Jeffery Harris, an ordained minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ attempts to restore unto the Church of America, that which must be preserved: the life example, the teachings, and the principles of Jesus Christ that became a Faith, called Christianity.
           This book seeks to reveal the shadows, and reestablish the traditionalist mores of Jesus Christ, for engaging humanity as handed down by the Son of a living God!
           With a profound hope, that the Church of America will receive correction; in so doing, implement the behavioral principles delivered through the Word of an Almighty God: a Word with unyielding expectations about those who are loved by Him!
           At the end of the effort, Become Perfect is a work of faith, and a discovery of God’s truth. And what is that truth? His Father sacrificed Jesus for all humanity; Jesus Christ has left it to individuals to do His sacrifice, which is to love.
           An individual’s love for their neighbor represents the Blood-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ! Now, how is this love revealed? Through our daily conduct, one human to another in forgiveness, mercy, truth and grace, Christ’s love is unmistakable."