NYT: How Management Experts Rank The First Two Weeks Of The Trump White House

[Initech]

For someone who promoted his management skills and campaigned as an “organizational genius,” as Anderson Cooper of CNN put it, it has been a rocky White House debut for Donald J. Trump, the first president to go directly from the executive suite to the Oval Office.

“Chaos” seems to be the word most often invoked, closely followed by “turmoil.” (One exception: the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, who said he preferred “action-packed.”)

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In less than two weeks, Mr. Trump created upheaval at the nation’s borders, alienated longtime allies, roiled markets with talk of a trade war and prompted some of the largest protests any president has faced.

The conservative editorial page of The Wall Street Journal bemoaned a refugee policy “so poorly explained and prepared for, that it has produced confusion and fear at airports, an immediate legal defeat, and political fury at home and abroad.”

Even the top House Republican, Speaker Paul D. Ryan, who had released a statement praising the immigration order, later distanced himself, saying, “It’s regrettable that there was some confusion with the rollout.”

All new presidents undergo a learning curve. But Mr. Trump promised a seamless transition and, with a real chief executive in charge as opposed to a career politician, an administration that would function as a well-oiled machine.

So it doesn’t seem premature to ask some leading management experts for an assessment of Mr. Trump’s first weeks, purely from the viewpoint of organizational behavior and management effectiveness, as I did this week.

The unanimous verdict: Thus far, the Trump administration is a textbook case of how not to run a complex organization like the executive branch.

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[yallerdawg]

1. If destroying the business and its reputation was the goal...

he has fulfilled the promise we warned about!

This is more in line with a hostile takeover in perfect Gordon Gekko-style.

No management skill required - just greed: intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.

[DetlefK]

2. Fun Fact about project-management:

Some statisticians took a look at why projects fail: In 80% of the cases poor planning was to blame. (Lack of ressources was ~70%, unrealistic premises was ~60% ...)

Now... It's good that there isn't a famous somebody who has little interest in planning complex projects.

[underpants]

3. That was a nice soft scathing.

It was mentioned that people expected him to change. Why would they? Aside from the White House THIS IS how he manages his business. A bubble that reacts and caters to his every whim. He doesn't really have a product. He sells his name. Now supposedly he has developed golf courses but for the most part he takes existing courses remodels them and then markets them. He's literally a paid spokesman. There is no policy review it's just appearances and marketing. He really doesn't stay with a project. He skips to the newest thing and someone else manages the old ones. At one point in his bankruptcy years he only controlled 5% of his "empire".

He's not a leader of an organization and never has been. He's basically a Kardashian at this point.

[Initech]

4. Guys like that don't change.

And Bill Maher was right last week - the GOP apologizes for nothing. With all the evil shit they do, continue to do, and continue to get away with doing, doesn't matter if it's constitutional or not, they don't care.