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Hes a Performance Artist Pretending to be a Great ManagerDonald 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 dont think theres anything of scale that hes had his hands on that he hasnt made a hash of, biographer Tim OBrien said in an interview last week.
Ramping up, fellow biographer Gwenda Blair added, her tone dry, is something hes 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 dont 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, Lets take advantage of the economies of scale here. He didnt think like that.
And as the 80s flipped to the 90s, the consequences of Trumps unorthodox decisions were clear. All those businesses are gone, of course, Nobles said, because they werent as successful as they could have beenand 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-offa 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 hes 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. Hes always created competition and chaos.
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/hes-a-performance-artist-pretending-to-be-a-great-manager-214836
Javaman
(62,532 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,150 posts)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
(11,119 posts)And this leak business is serious drama (although I think the real leaker is VP Pence).
Johonny
(20,879 posts)ananda
(28,874 posts)rather a performance conman.
mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)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
(904 posts)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.