Real Leadership
Real Poser
Posted on 10/13/2010 7:06:25 PM PDT by STARWISE
“If there’s anyone who knows more about drilling, boring and penetrating tight holes and crevases - basically places normal people would never go, and certainly places God never intended us to go, it’s our LGBTQ crew right here,” said Obama. /sarc
I’m disgusted. Bambi hates Chile, the most capitalist and educated country in Latin America, and was only forced into offering aid several days after their major earthquakes earliet this year. IIRC, Chile said thanks but no thanks to the aid.
We should be making a big deal of this. It was American technology, but paid for by the Chilean government and Obama had nothing to do with it. Still, if Bambi were an American (which he is not) he’d be out there seriously promoting this rescue and every single person involved in it.
I had gone out for dinner and was sitting in a bar here when I saw the final miner come out, and everybody in the bar cheered.
I just lol'd.
It’s a miracle ... and American help and technology
played a HUGE part.
MUST SEE this from the Wall Street Journal .. it’ll make your heart swell with pride and gratitude.
Opinion Journal: Capitalism Saves Miners
and here
sunken .. that video is fabulous and a MUST SEE! Thank you .. ;)
He provided his own quick wit and sense of command and used absolutely everything he'd ever learned.
That is truly heroic.
He had confidence that SOMEBODY could drill a hole and get them out of there hence the 17 day long period of iron discipline.
He was right!
This sounds like the underground version of the Shackleton expedition to the South Pole during WWI!
Shackleton and a few of his strongest men went far across the southern sea to find rescue help. But a great deal of credit goes to Frank Wild, who kept morale and spirits up on desolate Elephant Island. To the remaining men he would say daily, "any day now" they should get ready, the rescue ship would return. And return it did, with not a man lost.
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing, is an incredible book. I would not be at all surprised to learn the shift supervisor had read it.
My heart goes out to those brave men and their supervisor.
Yes, capitalism saved them, but the hippy will say that capitalism put the miners down there to begin with. Then what do we say?
Was it Eric Cartman that said I hate #$cking hippies.
Real Leadership
Real Poser
THEY’RE OUT!!!! THEY’RE ALL OUT!!! PRAISE GOD!!!
BTW, on the safety manuals, I want to be this guy's ghost writer ~ but we'll use him as the source of how to ACT FAST, which he did.
He obviously treated it as a combat situation and did it all. I particularly liked the part where he had them organized into teams and everybody was assigned a job right there at the start. Every man was given the opportunity to see to his own salvation through work with his friends, neighbors and coworkers ~ no matter how hopeless their situation really was, they were working to save their lives.
That's the main thrust that'd make a good chapter, but I think it could permeate whole book and make some of the least interesting stuff RIVETING.
It’s now an EMPTY MINE!! Thanks be to God!
The shift boss’s discipline in crisis is similar to how Shackleton organized his men when they were marooned at the South Pole — he kept them organized and busy, and responsible for their individual and collective welfare. It was military discipline imposed on a catastrophic situation, and it worked.
Yes, this shift boss should write a book of his own, I agree!
I actually had tears streaming down my cheeks as I watched those miners being rescued. It indeed was miraculous, and all need to thank God first and foremost for it.
His leadership, calm and provision of structure
to the group were amazing! Whattaguy!
Had this been stateside, Obama would have assembled a blue-ribbon commission of Ivy League intellectuals to study the problem. Their initial recommendation would have been to immediately halt all drilling of water wells, etc. in the continental US until additional government-mandated safety measures were in place.
Good thing the US companies operating in Chile were not so constrained...
Good thing the US companies operating in Chile were not so constrained...
~~~
And all praise to el Presidente Panera .. who was
bold, and told and let the experts in the field do
their thing.
Yep. He showed superb judgment in not letting national pride get in the way of getting the men out. He assessed the situation and made the choices to get the job done. That’s leadership. I would say we should pull a switcheroo—grab him and throw him in the White House—but then the good people of Chile would be stuck with our self-inflicted national gangrene, and that just wouldn’t be right. Oh well, we can start cutting away at it on 11/02.
Thanks, STARWISE!
Piñera just put on quite a display of what real executive leadership can accomplish, quickly bringing the best people and tools together to get a difficult job done. Very impressive.
If Obama had been Chile's president, those miners would have died. Obama would then have exploited their deaths for political gain. "Never let a crisis go to waste."
Capitalism vs. socialism, the real world vs. elite grad school.
Noticed that also....The President of Chile had mentioned the gratitude to the American people and their support earlier in the day...as Shep said “made my heart swell” ...but no mention of talking to BO.....He was probably on the golf course and couldn’t work it into his schedule....Sort of like the gulf oil crisis.
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