Posted on 03/23/2020 10:54:14 PM PDT by JBird77777
VP Pence's abilities and experience are political, not managerial.
FEMA personnel can't possibly have the experience to run optimally this major, vital operation. So Pence and the FEMA head should hire the best talent available in America to carry out the task force assignments.
Possibly hire someone like Tim Cook to oversee everything. He would take a leave of absence from Apple to do this.
Seasoned, experienced teams should be hired in at least these two vital areas. These teams should probably be hired intact from companies such as Apple, Microsoft and 3M.
1. Supply chain/manufacturing team to manage production/procurement on a centralized basis of all testing kits, personal protection equipment (masks, gowns, goggles, etc.), ventilators, and other key products, as required by hospitals.
2. Product distribution team to assess these hospital needs and arrange distribution of these products directly to them.
A third team should be hired to determine needed bed/ICU capacity by location, determine deficiencies in current capacity, and provide the additional capacity. This team probably should be acquired intact from companies experienced as closely as possible with this process, possibly in the retail or manufacturing or warehouse business.
Similarly, a fourth team should be hired to match medical personnel with hospital needs.
Nope, Pence is doing just fine. But thanks for the input. ;-)
For example, managers in hospitals may progress to greater positions in hospitals or hospital holding companies but they do not go on to manage airlines or oil producers or TV studios.
Moreover, even exceptional business managers often find it hard to transition to government positions because of the thicket of statutes, rules, court cases, and agency practices that have to be accommodated. Only with the active backing of the President can such obstacles be quickly overcome if at all.
Pence's key role on the federal coronavirus task force is that he represents the President. When Pence says, "I'll talk to the President about that" or "the President wants this to happen" everyone knows that to be the case. The usual result is that almost everyone suddenly gets with the program.
Aw, go hug a Chinaman!
Having switched over from doing the actual work to managing the work, I can tell you the difference. A manager sets the goals, hires the people and verifies that THEY have the tools, funding and facilities to get their jobs done. He collects their data, analyzes it, asks questions to ensure the goals will be met. If they won’t he goes back to his control and asks for the resources. He will need to present data to obtain those resources and in doing that he may bring along his subject matter experts. VP Pence is most likely the perfect candidate to do all of these tasks. This has the added bonus of giving him face time for when he runs for the presidency in 2024.
Tim Cook does not have the skills to do this. No emergency experience whatsoever.
Emergency management is very different from normal management.
Bullshit. FEMA has more than sufficient experience to handle this, painfully gained through MANY crises. Go peddle this **** somewhere else.
JBird - go scrounge for more worms.
Uh, he managed the entire transition team of hundreds, which included experts from many, many fields: economics, healthcare, foreign relations, domestic labor sectors, etc, etc.
I worked for a Naval supply officer. Wow. Crazy. He knew where every stick of RAM was installed in an office he did not work in. Military gets supply chains built for complex things that are rare. A mask, respirator, etc. are well established and just need to be mass produced. Yesterdays news conference had a military guy there in charge of the supply. Tim Cook can get a bunch of iPhones on a cargo ship from China to the US, US military can build a supply chain in the middle of a desert.
The key issue is whether or not Pence’s task force is accomplishing the goal, and whether or not someone else could manage it considerably better, perhaps reporting to Pence.
The primary goal is to meet the logistical needs of Americans - convenient/fast test kits, PPE, respirators, other medical supplies, beds, icu availability - as efficiently as possible.
There are current and growing deficiencies in all of these, which is costing lives, time and money. In addition, hospital staffs are bidding against each other for these scarce resources and duplicating effort, unnecessarily driving up prices, which ultimately costs the American taxpayer more than necessary.
Under most circumstances, I’m a total capitalist. But not this one, when so much American life, health, and livelihood are at risk, and the available resources don’t meet the demand.
Good grief! Get serious.
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