The multinational company I worked for was being led by a guy just like Biden. Only this leader sounded wonderful as he’d been a trial lawyer and he had mastered body language so that it was automatic and convincing. But his actual leadership skills, the decisions he made, were insane. The whole company, and the Democratic leaders, as demonstrated in this case by the quotes in the article, went insane right along with him.
After a frustrating meeting where we’d again tried to commit sanity, a fellow manager came into my office and said, “They build castles in the air and then move into them.” That’s what this article reminds me of. By-the-way, that company crashed and burned. The remains were sold off to other companies and all the local employees lost their jobs. The people responsible for the disaster got golden parachutes. Life isn’t fair.
“After a frustrating meeting where we’d again tried to commit sanity”
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Sanity rarely wins out over persuasive insanity, especially in cases of mass formation psychosis.
I once worked on a big project with a good team of contractors and an inept team of DEI type project managers. The contractors tried in vain to point out the flaws in the underlying assumptions and target dates in the plan to no avail. The project failed at a spectacular cost.
I later ran into one of the “managers” who moved on (well, upwards actually) to infect yet another project with their unworkable ideas.
I had a boss like that once.
He was younger—did not have dementia—but was a smooth talking insane sociopath.
I got lucky—he got hired away by another company after he was my boss for just a few months.
The company that hired this kook as a senior exec...wait for it....
drumroll...
Disney!