Post by badgolfermanTrump has moved with lightning speed to undo all the DEI bullshit, drain
the swamp, project American interests, isolate freeloading international
partners, and even scare Iran into negotiations. The Democrats are stunned
watching their underworld crumble apart and seem powerless to do anything
about it. The chaos is amazing so far.
I’m in favor of most everything he’s done, but I wonder how much of this
will actually go through before the courts start rolling some of it back.
It seems like he’s overreaching in some instances and pushing forward,
damning any potential pushback. He certainly isn’t sitting there wringing
his hands in worry like Biden would be doing. No doubt he feels like he has
a mandate from the American people to disassemble the government. I wonder
how this will affect the services everyone expects.
Just like the extremism of previous administrations, the next one swings
farther in the opposite direction. Imagine what the next Democratic
president will do when they undo Trump’s changes. That’s if there ever will
be another Democrat in the White House.
The movie ‘Twelve O’Clock High’ is often cited as a guide to timeless
leadership principles. Step One when a new leader takes over a group is
to shake up the existing status quo, the more of a shock the better.
Step Two is to then rebuild the group as it should be:
The other is “Twelve O’ Clock High,” which is about a manager taking
over a failing bomber group and whipping it into shape through a program
of stern discipline.
It is the harrowing story of the first B-17 bombers in England in World
War II and the terrible losses they took before long-range fighters were
available to escort them on combat missions over Europe. The movie was
adopted from a popular novel that was, in turn, based on a real event
that affected the Eighth Air Force in England during 1942 and 1943.
The new leader immediately incurs the hatred of aircrews when he comes
down hard on the lack of discipline. He deals harshly with slackers,
segregating the worst misfits into a crew known as “The Leper Colony”.
He openly criticizes mistakes, insists on a high level of
professionalism and is a straight talker who appreciates straight talk
in return.
Resentful of the new management style, all the pilots ask to be
transferred out of the unit. But the new commander sticks to his
principles. As the bomber group develops combat effectiveness and the
group’s performance improves, and the loss of life decreases, the pilots
change their minds and support the new commander and his leadership style.
This story dramatizes steps the leader took to restore the morale of
people who had come to regard themselves as “hard-luck failures” who had
accumulated the highest loss rate and the worst bombing effectiveness
record and motivated them to become a winning team.
The film highlights timeless leadership lessons such as creating a
strategy; setting clear expectations; creating performance standards;
giving clear directions; putting the right people in the right jobs;
communicating the “why”; restoring accountability, and pushing, pushing,
and pushing until the job is done.
Whether commanding a bomber group or managing employees towards making
their numbers, these leadership qualities are essential and universal,
especially in situations of extreme emergency and crisis."
https://josephgiglio.sites.northeastern.edu/2021/02/13/leadership-lessons-from-twelve-oclock-high/