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Today is the 3rd day of the 18th week, the 2nd day of the 5th month, the 122nd day of 2017, and:
- Baby Day
- Brothers and Sisters Day
- Childhood Depression Awareness Day
- International Scurvy Awareness Day
- National Concert Day
- National Fire Day
- National Play Your Ukulele Day
- National Teacher Day
- National Truffle Day
- Poem on Your Pillow Day
- Roberts Rule of Order Day
- Take a Baby to Lunch Day
- World Asthma Day
- World Tuna Day
ON THIS DAY: In 1194 King Richard I of England gave Portsmouth (a port city in Hampshire, England) its first Royal Charter. In 1611 the King James Version of the Bible was published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. In 1670 King Charles II of England granted a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America. In 1829 after anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declared the Swan River Colony a British colony in Australia. In 1939 New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig's streak of 2,130 consecutive games played came to an end when the ailing slugger removed himself from the lineup. In 1941 General Mills began shipping a new cereal called "Cheerioats" to six test markets. (The cereal was later renamed "Cheerios.") In 1952 the world's first jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, made its maiden flight from London to Johannesburg. In 1955 Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 2000 President Bill Clinton announced that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. In 2012 a pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
So it would appear from his tweets that our 45th President has discovered the main difference between being the President of a company and the President of a country.
As the President [and/or CEO] of his companies, his job is two-fold – set the agenda/course of the company [objectives] and represent them in the marketplace [branding]. To accomplish his objectives, all he has to do is tell his senior management what he wants done and when it should be completed – it is their job to flesh out his decree and come up with the strategy for implementation. He sets the pace, the agenda and the priorities. If his senior management team doesn’t accomplish what he wants when he wants it done, they get fired and replaced while he goes about being the “face” of the organization to the press and the consumers/customers.
Contrast this with the expectations of the President of a country – he has limited power, needs to provide precise details of his plans, and has to build consensus amongst fractious groups with their own agendas and priorities. We learned some forty years ago when Jimmy Carter was President that the United States Government [and I suspect any government] cannot be run like a business because it takes a completely different skill set. Carter was an intelligent man and a good business leader, but he was weak and ineffectual in the Oval Office. Now we have Trump in there and he is learning the exact same lesson in his first 100 days – unlike Picard, you cannot just say “make it so” and something happens. The same negotiating and organizational skills that made Carter and Trump successful in the executive suite are just not translating to the international stage. The difference between Carter and Trump is that the former seemed less flamboyant and more likable while the latter is very much more contentious and controversial.
If you look at the way that DJT is handling himself in office, you can clearly see that his behavior - the flamboyant remarks, the trips for golfing, the nepotism, the exercise of privilege -- is totally consistent with what many owners of large businesses . And I think he has brought us to a crossroads where we must choose: Do we express extreme frustration about the “swamp” by starting to restructure all of the executive, legislative and judicial branches to reflect the personalities and agendas of the sitting Presidents in the name of “national security” and “getting things done”? Or do we trust the Government to actually function? Do we even agree what the purpose of the federal government is anymore? Capitalism VS Citizens would seem to be our choice, although I don’t quite understand why we have to do either/or and cannot have both….
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