Be he right or be he wrong, there is no question that Donald Trump is a leader. He has supreme confidence in his ability to make things happen. And he is right more often than he is wrong ... which really angers his opponents. And very often these opponents would rather Trump lose than the United States win. This is a perverse type of political hostility. When President Trump moves in an unconventional direction with Afghanistan withdrawal or Iranian denuclearizing, fake-news pundits squirm and scream, “That is not the way to do it” ... forgetting that their previous mindless approaches were totally ineffective. What’s that definition of insanity?
I find it strange that liberals often find it preferable to do nothing administratively than be shown as having a hand on the throttle and a eye on the rail. I recall that many of my lefty friends called Mayor Rudy Giuliani a Nazi as he led New York City back to live-ability. And now the mayor of this city, de Blasio, would rather exercise at the gym than run his city ... with the result that it once again is a mess. This same insanity is being repeated in other Democrat cities ... Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Portland, Chicago, etc., etc.
Why, in the minds of Democrats, does responsible management equate to totaliarism? And laissez faire and permissiveness equal “justice?” There can be no real progress without making decisions and shaping operations. Yet they call themselves “progressives!” Railing against the phantom bugaboos of racism, bigotry, misogyny and antisemitism is not a substitute for leadership. And every so often the American people wake up and realize this truth.
"Responsible management"? You make me reminisce on CEOs I have worked under who, despite great credentials, were truly buffoons. One had the good fortune of a marketing VP that could steer the company in the best direction. Another was clearly just a board member holding the tiller while waiting for a better CEO to come along. Another was so out his league that an attack by a predator hedge fund caused him to jump ship months later. Yet another pair came from Lotus and from Exxon's foray into tech; they had money and VCs but their vision had blinders and could not adapt to a changing landscape. All but one of those failed after a couple years.
ReplyDeleteResponsible management is a seasoned team of professionals that works together to reach common goals. The team is loyal to the firm, not the CEO. They pound the drum to the same beat.
Trump is a one-man-band. As he has said, he negotiates by making hard terms, pulls them back, doubles them, then tries for the big close. He is a "whale" at the craps table, playing with the global economies.