Posted on 07/12/2021 3:25:07 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Donald Trump, as president, was terrific. A breath of fresh air from the dull, boring, self-serving members of the swamp. But what really made him stand out was his delivery of work products of substance.
Donald Trump comes from the world of project management. When Donald Trump's organization builds commercial properties, it delivers them based upon not good intentions, hot air, and lying to the stakeholders by claiming activities are results. Stuff really has to be done. In Trump's private business world, this means well planned projects managed by competent project managers who live and die on meeting task schedules with solid deliverables.
Project management is an exciting discipline. It maps out all the work via a work breakdown structure, resources, and time required to deliver a project within the dollars allocated. Here are two essential elements of it: tasks and lessons learned.
A project is organized as a series of tasks that must be completed. Each one has a timeline, resources, dependencies, an owner, and a deliverable. This is the management environment Trump operated in and excelled at. This couldn't be said for many of his political appointees, who expected to get away with the usual delivering of nothing — the traditional big government incompetence. But Trump demanded results. He assigned task owners and concrete, clearly defined deliverables. I suspect that it had to surprise Trump and for sure the Trump voters at large that so many political appointees were so incompetent. Their résumés were more fiction than fact. The career swamp players. Probably no political leader, coming from an organization built upon competence, has had to face the challenge of delivering on his promises via work products being produced by first-rate bozos.
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Hopefully Trump has learned to say “you’re fired” to whole levels of upper management in the bureaucracy.
Trump knows how to fire. The problem wasn’t Trump. It’s Deep State. And until we restore our republic, the bureaucracy ain’t going anywhere.
Trump was great at project management but the biggest single difference between gummint and Trump's private projects was the ability to fire an asshole when he discovered he made a mistake.
When he put Wray on as fbi director, he probably realized he screwed the pooch very quickly, but there were too many others political hacks to overcome and he didn't want the heat.
In business, when he realized he hired a backstabber or just a plain loser, he fired him. Period.
The ability to easily fire both those you hired and those that are ingrained into the system was one major reason that Trump only finished about 25% of his projects.
He was great, but could have been so much better.
That might have been a better track record than what he accomplished in the private sector. Between the USFL and his Atlantic City casinos, the landscape is littered with a bunch of failed Trump business ventures.
That doesn't make him a bad guy -- or even a bad project manager. He took on risky ventures, and many of them simply didn't work out.
When he put Wray on as fbi director, he probably realized he screwed the pooch very quickly, but there were too many others political hacks to overcome and he didn't want the heat.
Trump probably wouldn't have recognized Wray if he bumped into him on the street the day before Wray's confirmation hearing. Trump didn't hire these @ssholes. They were hand-picked by the political establishment that was tasked with confirming them.
If Trump was left to his own devices, he probably would have hired Michael Cohen as the U.S. Attorney General. I'm only half joking about that.
Hopefully President Trump has a list of deep staters and knows how far into the organizations of government they go. Then he can skim the crap off the top and start things off in the right direction (goal being to reduce size and function of government and restore freedom to the citizenry)
Starting with the NSA, CIA and FBI communists. About 99% of these agencies.
That's akin to having a list of Chinese Communist Party spies. Spies are good at hiding their identities...that what being a spy is all about.
Same for the Deep State operatives.
That's why Trump kept making mistakes in appointments. Deep State sympathizers are everywhere. They exist in a gray area between the Deep State and patriots.
“Trump knows how to fire. “
He knows how to fire, but unfortunately didn’t know how to hire.
The biggest flaw in the first Trump term was he took a lot of very bad advice on who to appoint. Fixing that is crucial when he comes back in 2024.
Can't hire people who don't want the job. Also Mitch basically told Trump anyone not on his approved list would be DOA in the Senate.
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