Grading Our MBA President

[WilliamPitt]

Grading Our MBA President
By William Fisher
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Sunday 09 April 2006

There is a consensus among CEOs and business school professors that there are just short of a dozen indispensable characteristics that are essential for an effective chief executive. Since the current chief executive of America Inc. is the first to hold a Masters degree in Business Administration, how does George W. Bush stack up?

What are these basic tenets? And how's our president doing?

1. Have a coherent vision for your organization's future.

When he ran for President in 2000, the cornerstones of George W. Bush's vision for America were a more competitive but more compassionate market economy, more "ownership" of more things by more people, a better-educated, healthier, more self-reliant and more ethical population that believed in the power of religious faith and acted accordingly, all working together under a smaller, more fiscally responsible government dedicated to maintaining a leadership role in the world. By example, America would continue to be the light at the end of the tunnel for the oppressed, the punished, the persecuted.

It was not until after the attacks of 9/11 that we heard anything about the president's mission to "spread democracy" throughout the world.

GWB promised to be a "uniter." Yet today, six years on, the US is more sharply divided about more things than at any time since our post-Civil War history.

As globalization has changed patterns of production and consumption, we are less, not more, competitive on the world stage. It may be only natural for business to outsource jobs that can be performed more cost-effectively elsewhere, but our economy has been unable to replace the jobs it has lost with higher-skilled and better-paying ones. A substantial proportion of our higher-skilled workers - engineers, scientists, information technologists - come from other countries as visitors or immigrants. The President's "No Child Left Behind" initiative was a positive start, but it has been woefully under-funded. Every international test shows us lagging far behind other industrialized countries in the skills we need to fill the jobs of the future - principally science and mathematics. More than 40 million people are without health care, millions of others continue to live below the poverty line, and the gap between "haves" and "have-nots" has become a chasm.

More: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040906Z.shtml

[ClintonTyree]

1. What could we possibly expect....

from a student who achieved higher levels of academia with "social promotions" rather than honest, work obtained results. "Gentleman's C's" were the order of the day for the spoiled, rich legacy who's family name was the only reason he was ever admitted in the first place. :eyes: A slacker. He was a slacker then and he's a slacker now. The problem being that instead of fucking up a Chem Lab 101 experiment with remarkable ease he's fucking up and entire planet. And no matter what his grade in this exercise, the outcome will be long-lasting and most often irreversible. There are no "Gentleman's C's" on the world stage. There is either success or failure and George W. Bush has failed. Miserably.

[radfringe]

2. telephone pollster

last week from christian science monitor called the house - my partner opted to do the poll

one of the questions was "on a scale of 1-5 (1 low, 5 high) how do you rate the president's performance"

my partner replied "anything lower than a 1?"

pollster: (chuckling) no, sorry, but we do get asked that alot....

on edit: note - this was before the feces hit the rotating blades about the leaks leading to bush*'s office

[opihimoimoi]

3. Grade? F.......He has failed his Mission, his People, The Planet, and

his Faith. In addition, he has failed the Pub Party...but then, the Pub Party had to know this dude was not a good contender but backed him anyway...making them accessories to the fact....They too get an F.

[radfringe]

6. using the Hogwarts OWL grade system

he would get a "T" for troll

[boobooday]

4. Harvard's MBA program

Should lose their accreditation for 'awarding' a degree to a monstrosity like Bush.

[rfranklin]

8. C'mon, his Poppy paid in full for that sheepskin!

It was affirmative action at its best! The feeble-minded and chronically lazy sons of the white massas are pulled up by their bootstraps and lifted into the upper class professions--as it was and shall always be.

[boobooday]

9. Well I guess it is appropriate they use 'sheepskin' then

Although it is degrading to the sheep.

[LizW]

5. When describing the Bush administration in business terms

the inescapable comparison is the mafia "bust-out".

The crime organization takes over a legitimate business by force and intimidation, usually capitalizing on some or overextension, and proceeds to use the assets and credit line of the ligitimate business to funnel great amounts of funds into its own coffers. They don't pay the creditors and the business ultimately is ruined, but the criminal organization is scott-free and much richer. Bushco is doing this to America on a massive scale.

[Lena inRI]

7. Not even an F. . .

EXPEL the sociopath!

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