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Mr. President, Time to Rein In The Chaos (by former head of Intel, Andy Grove)
Wash Post ^ | 3 11 2009 | Andy Grove

Posted on 03/11/2009 10:35:08 AM PDT by dennisw

Our health-care system may well be ripe for a major overhaul, as are our energy and environmental policies. Widespread recognition that all of these reforms are overdue contributed to Barack Obama's victory in November.

But if the chaos that resulted from initiating such an overhaul were piled on top of the unresolved status of the financial system, society and government would become exhausted. Instead, the administration must adopt a discipline; not initiating a second wave of chaos before we have a chance to rein in the first.

The point is, all administrations, including this one, have a finite capacity to deal with the details of monumental problems -- and the financial system's troubles certainly are monumental. Equally important is that society has a finite capacity to understand what created the problem, what the likely solutions are going to be and, most important, what can be expected from the new order of things and when.

Leading an organization, let alone a society, out of the chaos phase and into a new order requires explicitly clear and consistent messages from the top. The leader must paint a picture of the new and fill in lots of detail so that all relevant parts of society understand what they need to do to contribute. The answers to the questions "What is wrong?" "What are we going to do?" "How are we going to do it?" and "What should we expect?" should be drummed home relentlessly. This needs to be an ongoing process, where clarity, consistency and repetition are key.

First things first. Strive to achieve stability in our financial system. When the momentum is clear enough to allow trust in the system to return, then tackle the next mega-problem. As Machiavelli said, "One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andygrove; bho44; first100days; intel
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1 posted on 03/11/2009 10:35:08 AM PDT by dennisw
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Obama wants chaos because he can get more power.


2 posted on 03/11/2009 10:36:27 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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If the Washington Pest is worried, so should the Obama Administration be worried. But my prayers are that they would be Liberal Democrats to the utmost and be unable to temper their course.


3 posted on 03/11/2009 10:37:47 AM PDT by sr4402
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But if the chaos that resulted from initiating such an overhaul were piled on top of the unresolved status of the financial system, society and government would become exhausted.

As if it were planned by an enemy...
4 posted on 03/11/2009 10:38:39 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: dennisw

“overhaul” is code for “more gov’t programs”


5 posted on 03/11/2009 10:40:45 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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Andy Grove obviously never heard about not wasting a good crisis. He may have written something else here, had he done so.


6 posted on 03/11/2009 10:43:52 AM PDT by randomwalk (Liberalism is a psychosis...)
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To: AD from SpringBay
As if it were planned by an enemy

The enemy within.

The end result will be disaster.........people will start pushing back and pushing back hard.

That Coward obama, signs everything with a flourish, until today.....not even a photograph as he signs this 410 billion dollar mess.

7 posted on 03/11/2009 10:44:07 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: dennisw

Rein in the chaos? CHAOS IS THE OBJECTIVE, Mr. GROVE!!!.................


8 posted on 03/11/2009 10:44:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (The Zero has more Chicago Bull than Michael Jordan...................)
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Exactly. And this is the last thing they want to do:

“Leading an organization, let alone a society, out of the chaos phase and into a new order requires explicitly clear and consistent messages from the top. The leader must paint a picture of the new and fill in lots of detail so that all relevant parts of society understand what they need to do to contribute. The answers to the questions “What is wrong?” “What are we going to do?” “How are we going to do it?” and “What should we expect?” should be drummed home relentlessly. This needs to be an ongoing process, where clarity, consistency and repetition are key.”

The key is to implement the system BEFORE the details are known, just as in the stimulus bill, the bailouts and the new budget. This new “great communicator” prefers to explain fait accompli, not plans in the future.


9 posted on 03/11/2009 10:48:36 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Exactly!
Just look at how long it took for the ‘progressives’ to create this disaster by using massive government intervention to create this private credit deflation fiasco!
Fix It? Are you kidding?


10 posted on 03/11/2009 10:49:25 AM PDT by griswold3 (a good story is more compelling than the search for truth)
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It is difficult to imagine that Obambi has caused so many problems for himself in just 7 weeks. Now we have titans of the business world like Andrew Grove publicly urging Obambi to get his act together.

Even if Obambi does get it going, it will take a year to convince everyone he does. He may have wrecked his Presidency faster than any other.

schu

11 posted on 03/11/2009 10:51:35 AM PDT by schu
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To: griswold3

Nobody in MSM or Fox is saying this. It should be obvious unless I am wrong and Obama is a Special kind of stupid and does not realize what a power grab his policies are.


12 posted on 03/11/2009 10:53:26 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: caseinpoint

The Zero told everyone exactly what his plans were from the beginning. Nobody, except the Right, was listening blinded by the aura of “hope and change”...................


13 posted on 03/11/2009 10:53:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (The Zero has more Chicago Bull than Michael Jordan...................)
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14 posted on 03/11/2009 10:54:25 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Red Badger

And we can remember how those who warned about Obama were branded alarmists or racists.


15 posted on 03/11/2009 10:55:11 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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Repost:
Even ‘progressives’ understand the human nature of ‘greed’.
“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867


16 posted on 03/11/2009 10:56:02 AM PDT by griswold3 (a good story is more compelling than the search for truth)
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The natural antidote to greed is family and faith. Both of those institutions have been under attack for decades to the point where families are decimated and faiths are co-opted or villainized. Without those antidotes to keep them in mind of future generations and their brothers and sisters under God, people think of little beside their own animal lusts. At most their loyalty goes to the particular tribe with which they identify. Communists knew this, of course, and so they were particularly vehement about attacking family and faith and pressuring people to adopt the government as their tribe. In our own society the attacks have been more subtle but no less effective.


17 posted on 03/11/2009 11:02:34 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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"Leading an organization, let alone a society, out of the chaos phase and into a new order"

Grove shows his neo-Marxist leanings here. In summary, he's telling Opossum that he's doing the right things, only too quickly.

18 posted on 03/11/2009 11:04:41 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: griswold3

Right on!


19 posted on 03/11/2009 11:11:14 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: caseinpoint

As Tom Wolfe has stated, we lost our country (or society) in the 1970’s. When the 10 commandments were allowed to be removed from the public square, man’s conscience became untethered from God’s Law and subjected to man’s laws or whims.

The current situation isn’t actually all government or market failure but mainly, IMHO a societal failure of morality.


20 posted on 03/11/2009 11:15:13 AM PDT by griswold3 (a good story is more compelling than the search for truth)
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