Posted on 03/17/2025 5:07:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
President Trump is a remarkably creative problem-solver.
Business schools and military schools borrow extensively from each other’s academic literature. Although the workings of the boardroom and the battlefield might seem mismatched, there is considerable overlap. Both require leaders capable of assessing assets and liabilities dispassionately, developing short-term strategies that complement long-term objectives, and comprehending an adversary’s point of view. Both demand critical thinking.
Organizational theory, as a scholarly discipline, reflects the shared language of businesspeople and military planners. Business executives “go to war” against rivals and cordon off associates in “war rooms” when their firms’ interests are “under attack.” Military commanders seek to maximize “opportunity” and “leverage” while minimizing “loss.” Allocating resources efficiently and avoiding waste are crucial for both vocations. Just as an accountant is essential for a healthy business, a quartermaster is essential for a healthy army. In business and war, technical knowhow, tactical skill, and logistical expertise separate winners from losers, victors from the vanquished.
What is striking about President Trump’s return to the White House is how completely he embodies this business-military mindset. If a plan of action (a government program) is ineffective in achieving its goals, then the Trump administration terminates it immediately. If government bureaucrats within the Executive Branch’s ranks serve no purpose or fail in their day-to-day missions, then they are relieved of their duties. Just as fat, incompetent armies devour supplies and lose battles, bloated, incompetent bureaucracies devour resources and sabotage nations. Military commanders have no time to worry about an individual soldier’s feelings when operational success and lives are on the line. The chief executive of the United States has no time to worry about an individual bureaucrat’s feelings when the nation’s success and all Americans’ lives are at stake.
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The democRATs ruin the economy, make society unsafe and get soldiers killed.
Democrats are for DEATH, DESTRUCTION and ANTI-GOD!
Military leaders can be good politicians.
Businessmen can be good politicians.
You know who cannot be a good politician? The political class. They don’t actually know how to do anything other than raise money and spend money. They don’t solve problems. Why would they?
President Trump’s true genius is that THIS term he has been surrounded by popup think tanks of the greatest MAGA minds who’ve had four years to prepare for their ideal MAGA government and who and how to implement it, and President Trump is listening to them ...
[i use “MAGA” now, because i tend not to use the word “conservative” any longer because all meaning has been leached out of it by the rapidly shrinking legacy media continuously applying it to self-aggrandizing snakes like bill krystal, john kasich, karl rove, jennifer rubin, and pretty much the whole lot at national review ...
plus, MAGA is pretty much bullet-proof from destruction by the legacy media because 1.) they continuously attack it like it’s a dirty word, and 2.) it stands for “Make America Great Again”, which is anathema to the America Last, America Hating legacy media]
He certainly got a good education along the way, growing up in New York and doing property development there is probably quite a graduate-school in and of itself.
Ok, fine. Nice fawning piece.
But I expect more. The announcement last night on the j6 committee pardons certainly buoyed my confidence, but for the other matters it feels more like ‘hope’...
Indeed.
Trump isn’t just a businessman who built and ran a single company—he’s built and managed MANY businesses across many different industries.
His ventures span real estate, construction, hospitality, casinos, entertainment, publishing, broadcast media, model management, retail, financial services, food and beverages, business education, online travel, aviation, beauty pageants, and consumer products.
Oh, and golf courses.
Of course, he’s also had failures and faced near bankruptcy. If you think success is a good teacher, wait until you see what you can learn from failure.
Trump went to a military school for high school, then went to business school. Not much of a mystery.
We’ve started watching “The Apprentice”, which we never saw when it was on back in the day. Too busy with our lives.
It’s been very interesting. We’re still on season 1.
If anyone on the left had ever watched the show, they wouldn’t be a bit surprised by how Trump is going after things this second time around. He is the ultimate executive. He delegates to people he trusts, but he stays up with them and what’s going on.
If you think success is a good teacher, wait until you see what you can learn from failure.
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