Posted on 10/31/2013 5:45:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Vice President Joe Biden joined the president and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in apologizing for the Obamacare enrollment site, saying he and President Barack Obama are not technology geeks.
Neither he and I are technology geeks, and we assumed that it was up and ready to run, Biden said in an interview with HLN on Wednesday.
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“Neither he and I are technology geeks”? Seriously? Biden actually said that? Where are the grammar nazis from the media that went after Dan Quayle with a vengeance?
Then why the hell did you and the big guy give orders about how the website was to be designed?
Yes, that’s what I meant. Disgusting politicians.
But ‘base’ would have been a more approriate word perhaps.
Carnegie said he had only one real talent. He was able to figure out which men were better at something than he was. He then recruited them and delegated the necessary authority to them.
A manager/leader cannot be and does not need to be an expert in every field. But he does need to be able to figure out which people working for him are able to handle a job, give them an objective and then delegate the authority to reach it.
I guess the fact that it wasn't did not qualify as a "big f'n deal"...
Delegate, yes, but challenge your managers with probing questions. Its easy for me to see what’s right with a project; what’s often not so easy is being able to identify and mitigate against potential pitfalls. You want to know what things could go wrong and that’s largely what you need expertise for. Keep the project out of trouble.
If they fail, you fail.
Churchill and Roosevelt they ain’t.
Back in 08, the MSM told us Caliph Baraq was the hippest techno guy in govt....
If that day ever happens, don't say, “I have no idea what to do in this war, I'm no dogface.” Shirking your responsibility won't cut it. No more than your administration purposely causing the websites to fail so that we will all be stuck with the Stalinesque single payer plan.
Millions will die if Obamacare is put into place as the Socialists desire. It doesn't bother them becuase the hero of the Socialists and Progressives said,
“The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic”
Agreed, but my point was that none of this requires true expertise in the technicalities of the project. Although it is of course very useful if you have it.
An autobiography I read of a British officer during WWII (reaching brigadier) referred to his primary job as man management. In his opinion there was little difference in that aspect of the job whether it was a brigade or a corporate division. Management techniques differ of course, but the main issue of managing people towards a desired goal is the same.
Their ends always justify their means. And when their end results are catastrophic, one must assume their means were even worse.
To your point, from a management standpoint it can indeed be a negative to be too steeped in a technical discipline. In my experience, people like that often get lost in the weeds and have a tendency toward micro-management.
Joe Biden: President Obama and I not tech geeks True, they are just geeks!
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