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Trump wasn't a real CEO. No wonder his White House is disorganized.
Trump wasn’t a real CEO. No wonder his White House is disorganized.
Running a family business isn't the same as running a public corporation.
By Bert Spector February 21
Bert Spector is associate professor of international business and strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made much of his business experience, claiming he’s been “creating jobs and rebuilding neighborhoods my entire adult life.” ... The fact that he was from the business world rather than a career politician was something that appealed to many of his supporters.
It’s easy to understand the appeal of a president as CEO. The U.S. president is indisputably the chief executive of a massive, complex, global structure known as the federal government. And if the performance of our national economy is vital to the well-being of us all, why not believe that Trump’s experience running a large company equips him to effectively manage a nation?
Instead of a “fine-tuned machine,” however, the opening weeks of the Trump administration have revealed a White House that’s chaotic, disorganized and anything but efficient. Examples include rushed and poorly constructed executive orders, a dysfunctional national security team, and unclear and even contradictory messages emanating from multiple administrative spokesmen, which frequently clash with the tweets of the president himself.
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So why the seeming contradiction between his businessman credentials and chaotic governing style? ... Well for one thing, Trump wasn’t a genuine CEO. That is, he didn’t run a major public corporation with shareholders and a board of directors that could hold him to account. Instead, he was the head of a family-owned, private web of enterprises. Regardless of the title he gave himself, the position arguably ill-equipped him for the demands of the presidency.
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This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
Bert Spector is associate professor of international business and strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.
Running a family business isn't the same as running a public corporation.
By Bert Spector February 21
Bert Spector is associate professor of international business and strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made much of his business experience, claiming he’s been “creating jobs and rebuilding neighborhoods my entire adult life.” ... The fact that he was from the business world rather than a career politician was something that appealed to many of his supporters.
It’s easy to understand the appeal of a president as CEO. The U.S. president is indisputably the chief executive of a massive, complex, global structure known as the federal government. And if the performance of our national economy is vital to the well-being of us all, why not believe that Trump’s experience running a large company equips him to effectively manage a nation?
Instead of a “fine-tuned machine,” however, the opening weeks of the Trump administration have revealed a White House that’s chaotic, disorganized and anything but efficient. Examples include rushed and poorly constructed executive orders, a dysfunctional national security team, and unclear and even contradictory messages emanating from multiple administrative spokesmen, which frequently clash with the tweets of the president himself.
....
So why the seeming contradiction between his businessman credentials and chaotic governing style? ... Well for one thing, Trump wasn’t a genuine CEO. That is, he didn’t run a major public corporation with shareholders and a board of directors that could hold him to account. Instead, he was the head of a family-owned, private web of enterprises. Regardless of the title he gave himself, the position arguably ill-equipped him for the demands of the presidency.
....
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
Bert Spector is associate professor of international business and strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.
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