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Still, and email is not the way to pass on this sort of information. A phone call would be better and some personal word to the wise face time would be best.

This is clutzy, especially since Cain is selling himself as a folksy, charming guy.

Think of all the CEO's and entrepreneurs out there who actually wildly successfully, e.g., Steve Jobs, etc.

"Steve, you shouldn't have yelled at that manager and trashed the work his team did, even if it stunk. You should have taken him aside in private and had a warm fuzzy private converstation with him so as to not damage his all-important self esteem."

IMHO, I see private-sector style management here. In government, NOBODY gets fired, people are rarely repremanded; it's la-la land.

Very often - very often - in the real world (oops, I mean private sector) an executive or business owner will issue and "edict" in writing because there is stupid behavior going on, originating from a few individuals. This provides all that's needed to get it to stop in most cases, it uses very little of the exec's time, and it provides a solid basis for action to be taken against those who commit the infraction in the future.

Personal face time is at a premium for a Presidential candidate; there are thousands of things that the candidate would like to do but can't because of both time and money limitations. While many political campaigns are undboubtedly loaded with personality issues and squabbling, a more private-sector style of management will seek to avoid those things becoming a campaign drain.

One side of Herman Cain's "sales pitch" is "folksy and charming". The other sides include private-sector, entrepreneurial-style management, private-sector style math and logic-driven solutions, etc. Being a "nice-guy" does not mean that Herman will let people who report to him to chatter at him constantly in an attempt by those people to gain political power, curry favor, manipulate, etc.

Another post talked about non-disclosure agreements like it was odd for a political campaign. Well, they're certainly not odd in the private sector, and they certainly make sense.

I've heard so much from disgruntled campaign staffers in general this election cycle that it seems to me wisest to completely ignore what they say about their prior employers. Completely.

All of this really gets at why Cain is steadly climbing. IMHO, the American people, by and large have had it with DC politicians and Cain is just the tip of the iceberg that Washington, DC is about to start running into.

IMHO.