Posted on 07/14/2013 11:17:19 AM PDT by Taxman
CEOs of large organizations all face the same problem – driving their agendas in organizations too diverse and geographically dispersed to manage directly.
They hire competent managers for their units, set goals and establish clear metrics for evaluating performance. As in politics, competition in business is tough, and CEOs must set ethical boundaries for their managers’ conduct.
In all this, the CEO’s personal conduct is critical.
Early in his presidency, Mr. Obama flaunted American constitutional tradition by pushing through major social legislation, ObamaCare, without a bipartisan compromise and consensus. And he relied on a legislative sleight of hand to pass the Senate.
Simply, Mr. Obama’s hard left agenda requires him to treat the constitution and Congress as mere inconveniences – expediency is his ethical standard.
For example, unable to obtain Congressional ascent, even among moderate Democrats, for limits on CO2 emissions and other environmental goals, the EPA – at his public behest – has written regulations imposing new and onerous requirements on business.
The Obama Credo of Management: We’ll do as we please, stop us if you can.
His failure as a CEO, now with grave political consequences, was to impose no limits on managers’ behavior and implement adequate controls – mechanisms for the CEO to monitor the performance of units and head off emerging threats to the survival of the organization. Regarding the latter, of paramount importance is to insulate the president from any fallout from their actions.
Cabinet secretaries and agency heads took their cues from the boss – at State, Justice and the IRS senior management would have had us believe they were unaware of what was happening in Benghazi, with the Associated Press, or at the Cincinnati Office of the IRS. And the president only learns about many problems when reported in the news?
Mr. Obama simply has been too busy giving speeches, raising money, and trying to turn every event to political advantage to keep tabs on his managers, as any good CEOs would do.
CEOs periodically meet with their principal managers – in groups and where necessary individually – to probe their tactics, offer assistance from their own wealth of experience, and discern areas where managers may be planting problems that will burgeon into crisis.
Failing at this, the president has managed to continence management failures that cost the lives of Americans abroad, weaken our national security, rock public confidence in government, and threaten our constitutionally guaranteed liberties.
Mr. Obama has a lot in common with one predecessor, Jimmy Carter – both failed as CEOs. The man from Plains is a decent and ethical man but micromanaged too much, whereas Mr. Obama acquired his moral compass in the Windy City and simply can’t manage at all.
Americans should not be surprised. Mr. Obama came to Washington with profound campaign skills but virtually no record as a legislator or manager. He spent seven years in the Illinois Senate as a virtual non-participant, bored and seeking higher office, and his four years in the U.S. Senate running for president.
Americans turned to him, because they were justifiably disappointed with President Bush and tagged John McCain with the blame.
Prior to his presidency, Americans never observed Mr. Obama running anything, other than a campaign. He had not been a governor or a congressional committee chair. In military terms, we made him a five star general before even serving as a lieutenant.
By his own actions, he is arrogantly ambitions but sadly incompetent. He has corrupted the foundations of our Republic, and for that he gets a failing grade.
Peter Morici is an economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and a widely published columnist.
If he was a private sector CEO, he’d be fired and in prison.
I’d give an F and expel him as President of The United States. As CEO of a commie destruction & takeover, I’d give him a B+ to A-. He should be in prison and water-boarded to discover who he really is.
You are right, of course! HST, We had that opportunity last Novemeber, and it was an epic failure!
We really have no one to blame but ouselves. Pogo’s wisdom still holds: “We have seen the enemy, and he is us!”
But, since realization of the truth is starting to settle in, perhaps it is not too late. If Obongo Bozo can “fundamentally change America,” we certainly can change it back.
The election of 2014 is coming. Let us make the down payment on Taking America Back in November, 2014.
Between now and then, we need to trash LIEberals daily, and cause the 100,000,000 or so Americans who did not vote in 2012 to get off their dead asses and help us!
Please see my response at #23.
Agreed. He is old and senile, now, and was probably old and senile most of his life!
LOL!
We mis-played the hand we were dealt, beginning in the primaries.
Hopefully, We the People have learned out lessons and can make a course correction before we hit the ice berg.
My choice is no stars, no ribbons, no medals!
Instead, provide him a vacation in an orange jump suit and hard time in the Big House!
Surrounded by his LIEberal/Socialist/Faxcist/Marxist/Islamacist posse!
I could go all day.
Anyone else?
I am reminded of an old college drinking song, which includes the phrase: “. . . for he’s a horse’s ass.”
Thank you.
Perhaps.
I favor the orange jump suit thingie.
I guess we are going to find out how much “True Grit” We the People have, aren’t we?
Then, I guess we’ll have to find another way, and I don’t know what that is.
I read an article the other day that suggested the 25th Amendment could be invoked.
Yet another article suggested that, since impeachment is not in the cards with a Democrat Senate, a federal lawsuit be filed alleging certain criminal acts and that he be arrested. Don’t know how that might work, but it is out there.
All We the People can do is keep the pressure on, and keep alive the hope that we can somehow right the Ship of State.
I really don’t have a solution to the problem, but I know there is one out there — we simply must find it.
That about covers it, I think.
Yes, we are.
The only hope we have is the state legislatures. Check out the Bill of Federalism by Randy Barnett. Also, Mark Levin has a new book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic.
Here’s a link to Randy Barnett, law professor at Georgetown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Barnett
If the states can at least kill Obamacare, that would go a long way. You cannot count on Washington—the corruption is too pervasive and systemic.
Thanks. I’ll check it out.
You’re welcome.
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