I spent the 25 years managing businesses in highly competitive and fluid environments – the last one for 53 consecutive quarters in the black in on of the toughest environments of all, a smaller organization developing and selling big ticket systems to F500 and governmental MIS in competition with the likes of IBM and HP.
In that job I met and worked with management in around 50 such organization, some well run and thriving, some being poorly managed down the road to extinction.
And in my judgment what we are looking at in the case of this administration is a classic sort of organizational incompetence characterized by an in-over-his head CEO who, along with his chosen advisors, is disinterested or even actively hostile to recognition of the realties under which the organization is operating.
And what you have in that article above is a classic response with such situations: denial - which in such situations always eventual ends up in the same place, “The customers are so stupid they don’t even know what’s good for them.”
This judgment doesn’t have anything to do with ideology – you think I want Hillary Clinton as President?
It’s just the way I see it based on personal experience.
And to me that’s very, very scary.
It is laughable to see negative, namby-pambys --- who don't have the facts and are, themselves, in denial when confronted with them --- accusing fact-providers of being in denial.
I'd bet my bottom dollar that you also thought Ronald Reagan was in over his head, too, didn't you. You sound like a Pat Buchannan supporter, to me.
You also sound like a know-it-all micro-manager. They are the only ones who get "scared" when they can't have control over everyone and everything.
Fearful "Monday-morning quarterbacks" usually descend into total irrationality when people ignore their efforts to get them to believe that if "they" were in charge, everything would have been done "right". bttt
Your CEO analogy is bogus, because a President cannot choose the Governor, like a CEO can choose a division manager. He's stuck with who the people voted for in that state.