Lance Armstrong and John McAfee, the founder of McAfee Antivirus are both strong examples of how the wrong life choices and a simple lack in regard for the decisions that you make can heavily affect you as a person, as well as that which you represent.
Lance Armstrong is a powerful and exceedingly successful athlete and has been for many years. However, when you look behind the scenes, you learn Armstrong was using steroids to succeed, and this strongly taints your vision of him and the sport that he excelled at. Then you look at John McAfee, who developed a powerful and trustworthy McAfee Antivirus but later chose to make some terrible decisions, including fleeing the country and dating a 17 year old Belizean lady. He is now also a prime suspect in the murder of his neighbor!
Consequences resulting from the actions of both of the gentlemen discussed above were heavy and disappointing. Lance Armstrong, once an inspirational athlete who was always looked up to has now been revoked of every award he received between the years of 1999 and 2005. Many believe this is because he was not honest about his actions.
If you look to other athletes who were accused of using steroids –such as Tiger Woods and Michael Vick, most were not treated quite as harshly. But this is simply because they were honest and up-front about their mistakes. In the case of John McAfee, he was no-less-than stripped of all his credibility. Not to mention the fact that he has successfully degraded the name of McAfee Antivirus. In both cases, it is a simple matter of trust. If people do not feel that they can trust a person, you can bet that person will lose their popularity; and fast.
Unfortunately for Armstrong, his Livestrong Foundation (dedicated to curing cancer) lost much of its credibility, which always results in lack of funding. This plainly exemplifies the fact that the actions of one person can affect so much more than they believe. The Livestrong Foundation lost millions of research dollars.
There were millions of people who looked up to Lance Armstrong for his pure athletic power and sportsmanship. He made people believe in themselves and in their ability to do whatever they set their minds to. When all of those fans learned of Armstrong’s incompetence, as you can imagine, they were greatly disappointed and discouraged.
The effects of McAfee’s actions are dramatically changing the lives of people around the globe. Many are questioning whether their computer antivirus can properly protect their computers and personal lives as well as they claim. With John McAfee on the lam and showing little in the way of sanity at this point, how can you expect people to trust and believe that the McAfee Antivirus is a solid program? This product is exclusively about trust. McAfee is not exactly proving it to be trustworthy. The Antivirus Protection Software Industry has been severely negative about McAfee Antivirus in recent years, simply because its founder is so heavily wrapped up in such negative and irresponsible ways. His decision-making skills are definitely surfacing and they are clearly showing his lack in ability to do the right thing! This is critically damaging his reputation and that of the antivirus which holds his name.
The stories of these men are not unique. Both John McAfee and Lance Armstrong are classic examples of what happens when a strong “leader” takes it too far. Armstrong took steroids to succeed and McAfee took his money and ran with it. Unfortunately, these stories won’t ever stop surfacing until our “strong leaders” learn to think before they act.
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