Posted on 02/18/2016 6:34:38 AM PST by reaganaut1
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[I]s it actually the case that people who proclaim themselves so loudly and so often to be winners actually succeed the most?
My research into business leaders suggests they don’t. On the contrary, it suggests that such bombast is one of a slew of behaviors embraced by spectacularly unsuccessful business executives. Unfortunately, many of these habits are part and parcel of the Trump leadership playbook.
For my book "Why Smart Executives Fail," I interviewed some 200 people at 50 companies to learn why some people in business don't merely lose, but lose big. I discovered an interesting pattern: Spectacularly unsuccessful people tend to display a number of behavior patterns in common.
One of the most common is a tendency to see themselves and their companies as dominating their industry, regardless of what is happening around them. For example the co-CEOs of Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, failed to appreciate the rise of the iPhone, going so far as to laugh off Apple’s (AAPL) new product as a nonstarter because it didn’t have a “real†touch keyboard. As we’ve seen with Donald Trump, denigrating your competition is one of the best ways to see this syndrome in action. Like Trump, the RIM CEOs felt certain they would win, and it cost them big time.
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But hasn’t Trump actually been very successful – isn't he a billionaire? Leaving aside the four bankruptcies, mostly due to problems at his Atlantic City casinos, there’s no question that his net worth today is in the billions. While no one can predict with certainty whether his business empire will remain intact in the years to come, CEOs who embrace unsuccessful habits, as Trump does, are particularly vulnerable to a downturn.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Sydney, are you jealous of his success, his money, or his cajones.
So words are more important than actions and using a person’s past behavior as the best predictor of that person’s future behavior is overrated?
Go hang yourself Sydney. You are a traitor to the truth.
And no, I’m not a Trump cheerleader.
Your going to have to do better than just pull stuff out of your ass and wave it around under a banner of “simple fact” to convince me you’re worth listening to.
I've looked at that. It was a poison pill.
George Soros is, so I would be careful of my comparisons. A billion dollars does not make a great person.
So, I’ve introduced legislation to increase the number of H-1B visas, if there are people who are educated and talented and creating jobs, the data shows for every H-1B visa holder that comes in, he or she creates 1.7 jobs for Americans here. I want job creations, I want innovators, I want new opportunities for America.†Cruz was asked about Disney’s use of H-1B visas to replace US workers who were forced to train their replacements, he stated that he didn’t know the facts of the Disney case, so he couldn’t comment."
It is becoming obvious that all of the mainstream media is being geared to help this country implode. Evil people.
Excellent points.
But today’s narrative is that Trump is a failure. A bad boss. And that “he didn’t build that.”
Please comply with today’s rhetoric. Thank you.
You could add; No other candidate has been able to get the media to pay for their campaign.
Only Trump has been able to do that.
The “poison pill” was that while he’d allow more H-1B visas, the minimum salary would be 110K/year. That took away the incentive to simply bring in H-1B employees to replace American workers because they were cheaper.
I love that Trump is self funding his campaign. That is one of the big reasons I’m supporting him.
OK, I’m “just guessing” that it’s the opposite. /s
I'll go a step further Cruz does not even have executive experience or even was on any committees dealing with the budget in the Senate. The guy is just light on experience. But for some of you being a darling of the conservative talk show elites like Beck and Uncle Levin is enough for you. If he says the right things, you are sold,....sheeple. It's you guys are looking for a messiah not us Trump supporters, I don't want another Reagan, I want a guy who will get the heck out of the way.
A challenge for you angry purists, give me one concrete thing despite a speech Cruz has done exactly to qualify him as a president, or that I should trust him? Remember my parameters...don't give me an example of him supporting a bill or giving a speech. Like finding a word that rhymes with orange there just isn't one. What we have a conservative demagogue in Cruz and I am not buying it. We all know Trump, he's bombastic, coarse, loud, and confrontational and we need that boldness now, not a radio talk show host.
Almost 9 whole months already.
The author was questioning Trumps ability to be an executive. The money comment had nothing to do with his character, just his talents as a businessman. If making a billion dollars was easy, everyone would be billionaires. Are you a billionaire?
An article of surpassing irrelevance, containing unsubstantiable wishful thinking and the corrosive envy of the sidelined onlooker.
“Just because he is a business man does not make him a good prez.”
He is not just a business man, but one of the most successful in this era, that got it the old-fashioned way.
> “One of the most common is a tendency to see themselves and their companies as dominating their industry, regardless of what is happening around them. For example the co-CEOs of Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, failed to appreciate the rise of the iPhone, going so far as to laugh off Apple’s (AAPL) new product as a nonstarter because it didn’t have a ‘real’Â touch keyboard. “
Finkelstein is D grade intelligent, at best.
He spouts off without knowledge, but he acts like he has knowledge.
RIMM was propped up by GW Bush’s CIA to intercept messages in Canada where there was no law against government agencies reading private messages, especially in the fear aftermath of the War On Terror. All US federal contractors procuring smartphone equipment were sole sourced to RIMM resulting in an immediate user base of 3 million users, and then the marketing took it from there. So RIMM took off as somehow a spectacular phenomenon, when in fact it was just another CIA funded enterprise like Oracle and many many others.
RIMM’s blackberry demise was not so much the emergence of Apple as it was the result of the US federal government perfecting backdoors and getting a submissive DC court to rubber-stamp warrants for the invasive monitoring they sought.
Problems in judge shopping had ensued since, but who cares? It’s Obama’s deal now.
Were there American competitors of Blackberry at the time? Yes, there was a superior American made smart phone manufactured by Palm. But Palm’s email processing was subject to US law, thus was unsuitable for propping up by intelligence agencies.
RIMM had a good run and made Canadians fell for a time that they were somehow special. Poor Canadians, those American sonsofbitches did you in again.
Meanwhile, Finkelstein is going to belch at us about his favorite downers on America’s frontrunner.
Burrrpppp ............
Oh, okay, so I guess Cruz’s actual words don’t mean anything.
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