How Not to Succeed in Business (Leadership failures by Obama administration)

Business Week ^ | 3/2/09 | Jack & Suzy Welch

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It used to be that you heard the lament, "If only government could be more like business…."

Those days are over—and how.

But if last week in Washington is any indication, government doesn't yet have a lock on the kind of effective leadership that characterizes business at its best. Consider just a few key events: The Treasury Dept. bemoaned the complexity of the problem it was supposed to be solving. The Vice-President announced that every government plan has a 30% chance of failure. And the President tried to thread the needle between lambasting the past, like a candidate on the campaign trail, and heralding the future, like an elected leader with a vision.

Politics as usual? Absolutely.

But an example of how to build confidence and motivate people? Not exactly. In fact, the behavior in Washington last week could be organized into three lessons of how not to succeed in business.

• First, business leaders gain nothing by showing uncertainty and indecision.

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It used to be that you heard the lament, “If only government could be more like business….”
Anyone who thinks that government, which is nothing but force and coercion, can be anything like business, which is free association and cooperation, is a total idiot.

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I think what they are trying to say is that what we have is A 2 bit Jeremiah Wright,Jesse Jackson,Al Sharpton Poverty Pimp Huckster as President .
This guy just Blames everyone else for everything as Wright did ,The United States is the Origin Of all evil and you are going to get your due now that I am in Charge ,Lisyen to his appointees ,We Are Cowards ,Carbon Dioxode is going to be a Controlled Substance,Tax us on the Miles we drive , No more Talk radio,the internet is going to be Controlled by the Goverment,all this and more in only a Month!