Tag: dysfunction

Warring West Wing factions dismay management experts

The following article by Annie Linskey was posted on the Boston Globe website February 18, 2017:

President Trump was accompanied by (from left) Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice Prsident Mike Pence, press secretary Sean Spicer and Flynn on Jan. 28 during a phone call with Vladimir Putin.

Donald Trump rode into the White House on a promise that he’d be a strong leader who could run the government with the efficiency of a CEO. He’d hire “the best people” and manage the country with the same success that he has had running his business empire.

The reality has been much, much different.

Management experts from across the country view Trump’s tumultuous style in the White House as deeply troubling, unlikely to produce the type of helpful internal team debate that can solve difficult problems and well outside the norms of a coherent management philosophy. Continue reading “Warring West Wing factions dismay management experts”

5 Reasons It’s So Hard Not To Help Donald Trump

The following article by @LOLGOP was posted on the National Memo website January 30, 2017:

You probably hate using the words “President Trump” as much as I do.

Even if you do not invest the office of the presidency with mystical properties, you still recognize its extraordinary power to do good, or to strand thousands of people who are in the process of becoming permanent residents of the United States in countries and airports around the world.

“I am the President of the United States, clothed with immense power!” Tony Kushner has Abraham Lincoln say in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. Continue reading “5 Reasons It’s So Hard Not To Help Donald Trump”