A president is going to be in charge of a massive organization. Actually multiple organizations with dramatically different goals and focus.
You need some good organizational experience. You need a lot of experience knowing how to appropriately measure an organization. And you need experience hiring and firing and selecting Executive level people to run those organizations.
Governor’s get that experience at the state level. But they inherit a bureaucracy that usually doesn’t have the sort of fiscal or operational discipline as private industry. Trump has that experience, because he has been managing a large organization for 50 years. I really think his private company experience is far better than a governors experience, because it has the added discipline of making a profit. That forces you to make decisions much faster than in a state government.
Carson was a Neurosurgeon at John’s Hopkins. How many people did he manage? How many executives did he manage? My guess is a few nurses and office people as part of his practice and no executives.
Whoever gets elected will be trying to figure out what the various agencies do. What goals they want to set for that agency. What skills they need in the person to lead them. And a good president is going to be figuring out how to measure and control the organizations.
Carson will be at a decided disadvantage to any of the Goveronors or to Trump or to Fiorina when it comes to management skill. For that matter I think Cruz and the other senators will be at a disadvantage too.
At age 33, Dr. Carson became the youngest physician to ever head a major division at Johns Hopkins. He was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions from 1984 until ???.
In addition to being a professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatric medicine.
I agree with your post somewhat. In my career I was middle and then upper management, and I can tell you from my experience that a lot of it is hiring knowledgeable people that will work for your goals.
You seem to have a very extensive grasp of Dr. Carson's abilities./s
Did *any* of this matter when the Obie from Nairobi came to ascendancy?
I agree with you. A brilliant neurosurgeon is like a queen bee, prized for his singular, essential ability and supported in all other matters, even the most basic. Carson would need a legion of Valerie Jarretts. They wouldn’t be hard left statists but they would be a shadow govt.
Add to that his squishy principles and the threats the world is facing. Do we need another post turtle in the White House?