Hes a Performance Artist Pretending to be a Great Manager

[Beacool]

By Michael Kruse
February 28, 2017

More than 27 years before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, Bruce Nobles, then the president of the Trump Shuttle airline, assessed with some befuddlement the business and managerial practices of his boss. Nobles had climbed a conventional corporate ladder at American, Continental and Pan Am, companies with org charts any MBA would recognize. The Trump Organization, on the other hand, was smaller, looser and much more freewheeling, and working for Trump, Nobles discovered, was a markedly different experience.

“It surprised me how much of a family-type operation it was, instead of a business kind of orientation where there is a structure and there is a chain of command and there is delegation of authority and responsibility,” Nobles told a reporter from Newsday in the fall of 1989. “As the organization gets bigger, and it seems to be getting bigger all the time, he’ll have to do a better job of actually managing the place as opposed to making deals.”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/hes-a-performance-artist-pretending-to-be-a-great-manager-214836

I love the title of the article. This is the actual quote: “He’s not a great manager,” O’Brien said. “He’s a performance artist pretending to be a great manager.” It's very telling because that's what he's doing as president. He's about smoke and mirrors, but not actual job performance.

We are so screwed with this unstable man as president.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I don't think he's actually pretending;

I think he really believes he's a great manager.

[unblock]

2. Exactly - big difference between pretending to be something and claiming to be something.

[TeamPooka]

3. If you ask him there's never been as good a manager as he is ever. No one is a better manager blah

blah blah

[unblock]

5. i am the only one, yada, yada, yada

[Beacool]

4. Oh, I agree.

Tony Schwartz, the real author of "The Art of the Deal", tried to warn people about Trump in interview in The New Yorker.

“Trump has been written about a thousand ways from Sunday, but this fundamental aspect of who he is doesn’t seem to be fully understood,” Schwartz told me. “It’s implicit in a lot of what people write, but it’s never explicit—or, at least, I haven’t seen it. And that is that it’s impossible to keep him focused on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes, and even then . . . ” Schwartz trailed off, shaking his head in amazement. He regards Trump’s inability to concentrate as alarming in a Presidential candidate. “If he had to be briefed on a crisis in the Situation Room, it’s impossible to imagine him paying attention over a long period of time,” he said.
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Schwartz believes that Trump’s short attention span has left him with “a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance.” He said, “That’s why he so prefers TV as his first news source—information comes in easily digestible sound bites.” He added, “I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life.” During the eighteen months that he observed Trump, Schwartz said, he never saw a book on Trump’s desk, or elsewhere in his office, or in his apartment.
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“Lying is second nature to him,” Schwartz said. “More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

IMO, there's something mentally wrong with Trump.