He's not a great manager---He's a performance artist pretending to be a great manager"

[kpete]

‘He’s a Performance Artist Pretending to be a Great Manager’
Donald Trump sits at the top of the biggest org chart in the world. Why does he look so uncomfortable in the job?
By MICHAEL KRUSE February 28, 2017


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“I don’t think there’s anything of scale that he’s had his hands on that he hasn’t made a hash of,” biographer Tim O’Brien said in an interview last week.

“Ramping up,” fellow biographer Gwenda Blair added, her tone dry, “is something he’s maybe not so good at.”

“When we worked together,” Nobles said, “he had three casinos in Atlantic City and he had the shuttle, and all four companies had their own operating systems, and I went to him and said, ‘Why don’t we combine these things?’ And he said, ‘No. I want those guys competing against each other. I think it will make all of them stronger.’ Any normal businessman I know would have said, ‘Let’s take advantage of the economies of scale here.’ He didn’t think like that.”

And as the ‘80s flipped to the ‘90s, the consequences of Trump’s unorthodox decisions were clear. “All those businesses are gone, of course,” Nobles said, “because they weren’t as successful as they could have been—and should have been.”

So while smart, experienced political professionals have called the start to the Trump presidency unprecedented in the annals of the office, it is not unprecedented in the annals of Trump. Trump has managed in the Oval Office in Washington pretty much exactly the way he managed on Fifth Avenue in New York, say people who worked for him at different points over the last 45 years as well as writers of the best, most thoroughly reported Trump biographies. In recent interviews, they recounted a shrewd, slipshod, charming, vengeful, thin-skinned, belligerent, hard-charging manager who was an impulsive hirer and a reluctant firer and surrounded himself with a small cadre of ardent loyalists; who solicited their advice but almost always ultimately went with his gut and did what he wanted; who kept his door open and expected others to do the same not because of a desire for transparency but due to his own insecurities and distrusting disposition; who fostered a frenetic, internally competitive, around-the-clock, stressful, wearying work environment in which he was a demanding, disorienting mixture of hands-on and hands-off—a hesitant delegator and an intermittent micromanager who favored fast-twitch wins over long-term follow-through, promotion over process and intuition over deliberation.

“I think he’s the same Donald Trump as the Donald Trump I knew when I was working with him,” said former Trump Organization executive vice president Louise Sunshine, who worked for Trump for 15 years starting in 1972. “Same management style. He’s always created competition and chaos.”


the rest:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/hes-a-performance-artist-pretending-to-be-a-great-manager-214836

[Javaman]

1. he's a nut with money. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

3. A Nut With Daddy's Money

As i've said here numerous times, had he just invested his inheritance in a broad array of index funds, he'd have been able to live off about 30 million a year for the past 40 years (start at 10 and end up at 70), and still had more than $1 billion more than he claims as a net worth.

That's not exactly a guy who's self made. He has less money than if he had done nothing.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Exactly! He's performed his way into the White House!

And this leak business is serious drama (although I think the real leaker is VP Pence).

[Johonny]

4. This generations Rufus T. Firefly

[ananda]

5. No, not a performance -- artist --

rather a performance conman.

[mnhtnbb]

6. Truly. There's nothing artistic about the orange $hitgibbon.

[jimjc]

7. fraud

He's a fraud, con artist and psychologically un-fit to serve in any position above a latrine orderly.

And the only bigger fools are the ones that voted for him.

[MatthewStLouis]

8. He's really bought into all that right-wing hogwash.

These people (with no evidence, only faith) believe the "free market" can solve every problem. Just privatize everything and let everybody compete for a profit and things will turn out great (sarcasm). The big problem with self interest (selfishness, greed) alone is that it leads to poor outcomes for society as a whole. Regulation, responsive government, transparency, foresight, caring about people and things besides ourselves, caring about the public good: all these things, anathema to neocons, are vital parts of a healthy society.

Hopefully, we can figure out how to get the message out and educate people before it's too late. We have to stop assuming the stupidity of the other side is so willful and the truth is obvious. Apparently, they believe some really stupid things and we need to show them each and every dot they need to connect to get back to the truth.