Gone but not forgotten All I want for Passover is the confidence of a white dude with a Masters in Business Administration! Politico's Nahal Toosi has a gonzo story out today on how Rex Tillerson almost MBA'ed the State Department to death with management consultants. Did those douchbags from Deloitte know dick about diplomacy? They did not! And yet they were only too happy to offer their opinions on America's foreign policy apparatus for the low-low price of $300/hour. And the country was saved!
Sad confession...I was an ISO-9xxx/14xxx trained auditor(in-house only). I one very excellent trainer/mentor who taught me to not be a nazi and to see that the documents produced needn't be bulletproof, obtuse, or War and Peace tomes. KISS! The real difficulty was keeping the producers/users of said documents from being crazies. IMHO...teh ISO initiatives make sense, but implementation and certification/auditing/consulting has made this all fabulously fruitful for some.
Rex Tillerson's performance at State presents significent evidence that he is not a major league organizational talent. While CEO of ExxonMobil, his greatest contribution was that he didn't do significent harm or damage.
If he was any good at his job, he would have needed security to isolate him from the State Department personnel. Of course, doing to the State Dept. what Twit wanted was a hinderence. But then again, doing to the State Dept. what Twit wanted is a sure sign that he is not very competent.
Without a doubt he rose to the top of Exxon witha skill set of: smoother talker, good public speaker, great meeting skills, good email skills, great ass kissing skills that were widely practiced and an ability to jump on good bandwagons and abandon sinking programs. Smooth talkers are ascendent in American corporate circles.
Many other private sector eaders were successful as cabinent secrataries in the past. in fact President Obama was criticized for only having three cabinet members with private sector background.
We used to refer to the consultants brought in from a large, well-known firm as "Do Little and Do Nothing". They would have done a lot less damage if they'd only stolen watches and collected a fee.
Sure these guys screwed the pooch. But let us not overlook the SERIOUS drug problem that is glossed over in this story.
Americans abuse many drugs: LSD, PCP, DMT, THC etc. And Fearless Leader has proclaimed all of these drugs as BAD. But where is the love for the poor raving victims of that most addictive drug of all...MBA?
The MBA addict gets his or her first kicks with MBA in college level courses in Business Administration. But they soon have to use heavier doses more frequently. And when their four year program runs out they have to start shelling out SERIOUS MONEY to get into an MBA program at some elite school run by LIBERALS! But the MBA has clouded their judgment. They are now slaves to the drug. And once they go out into the real world all they can do is try to shape reality to fit their MBA infused dream world.
Medical Science has come up with some effective treatments for this addiction. Johns Hopkins has reported a successful treatment where the patient is strapped to a hospital bed and left to rave for about twelve years. As usual bleeding heart liberals keep pushing for that twelve years to be cut back to ten years.
Government is not a business. The purpose of business is to get as much money from your customers as possible while not going to jail. The purpose of government is to provide as much service to your citizens as possible. The two things are really, really different. And the State Department is supposed to carry on communications and agreements between nations while not going to war - making money has nothing to do with it. If it costs a billion dollars to avoid a war that will cost 100 billion dollars that's a good thing.
As I recall, Six Sigma was originally Motorola's "brand" for their SPC system, so pretty early. When Dr Deming invented Statistical Process Control, it was a good thing (particularly for the Japanese, who paid attention).
But SPC was a measurement and control system for manufacturing physical things, and for designing them so they would work, even at the statistical limits of the manufacturing process (e.g,, six sigma).
Once people started trying to apply the system to non-physical things (software, "business processes"), it devolved into consultantspeak gibberish.
Obligatory: A management consultant is a person who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is,
Sad confession...I was an ISO-9xxx/14xxx trained auditor(in-house only). I one very excellent trainer/mentor who taught me to not be a nazi and to see that the documents produced needn't be bulletproof, obtuse, or War and Peace tomes. KISS! The real difficulty was keeping the producers/users of said documents from being crazies. IMHO...teh ISO initiatives make sense, but implementation and certification/auditing/consulting has made this all fabulously fruitful for some.
Rex Tillerson's performance at State presents significent evidence that he is not a major league organizational talent. While CEO of ExxonMobil, his greatest contribution was that he didn't do significent harm or damage.
If he was any good at his job, he would have needed security to isolate him from the State Department personnel. Of course, doing to the State Dept. what Twit wanted was a hinderence. But then again, doing to the State Dept. what Twit wanted is a sure sign that he is not very competent.
Without a doubt he rose to the top of Exxon witha skill set of: smoother talker, good public speaker, great meeting skills, good email skills, great ass kissing skills that were widely practiced and an ability to jump on good bandwagons and abandon sinking programs. Smooth talkers are ascendent in American corporate circles.
Many other private sector eaders were successful as cabinent secrataries in the past. in fact President Obama was criticized for only having three cabinet members with private sector background.
We used to refer to the consultants brought in from a large, well-known firm as "Do Little and Do Nothing". They would have done a lot less damage if they'd only stolen watches and collected a fee.
It made me really sad, I loved reading Dilbert growing up and now hes just anothrt Trumpkin deplorable. His comic isnt funny anyway either.
still relevant satire (after 20 years)http://www.waltzingrhino.co...
I thought a consultan was a crook pretending to be a Sultan
Hahaha, a pun
jesus christ. i am so embarrassed for my country.
here is a 'secondary' chinese city.
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jesus christ america.
Only if you charged them three figures and had no idea where to go next with your tech,
Sure these guys screwed the pooch. But let us not overlook the SERIOUS drug problem that is glossed over in this story.
Americans abuse many drugs: LSD, PCP, DMT, THC etc. And Fearless Leader has proclaimed all of these drugs as BAD. But where is the love for the poor raving victims of that most addictive drug of all...MBA?
The MBA addict gets his or her first kicks with MBA in college level courses in Business Administration. But they soon have to use heavier doses more frequently. And when their four year program runs out they have to start shelling out SERIOUS MONEY to get into an MBA program at some elite school run by LIBERALS! But the MBA has clouded their judgment. They are now slaves to the drug. And once they go out into the real world all they can do is try to shape reality to fit their MBA infused dream world.
Medical Science has come up with some effective treatments for this addiction. Johns Hopkins has reported a successful treatment where the patient is strapped to a hospital bed and left to rave for about twelve years. As usual bleeding heart liberals keep pushing for that twelve years to be cut back to ten years.
Government is not a business. The purpose of business is to get as much money from your customers as possible while not going to jail. The purpose of government is to provide as much service to your citizens as possible. The two things are really, really different. And the State Department is supposed to carry on communications and agreements between nations while not going to war - making money has nothing to do with it. If it costs a billion dollars to avoid a war that will cost 100 billion dollars that's a good thing.
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible soundHe pulls the spitting high tension wires downHelpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on themHe picks up a camero and he throws it back downAs he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
Oh no, they say he's got to go go go godzillaOh no, there goes tokyo go go godzilla
History shows again and againHow nature points up the folly of men
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it's all his wife's fault!
Then collects his fee and walks away, keeping your watch
As I recall, Six Sigma was originally Motorola's "brand" for their SPC system, so pretty early. When Dr Deming invented Statistical Process Control, it was a good thing (particularly for the Japanese, who paid attention).
But SPC was a measurement and control system for manufacturing physical things, and for designing them so they would work, even at the statistical limits of the manufacturing process (e.g,, six sigma).
Once people started trying to apply the system to non-physical things (software, "business processes"), it devolved into consultantspeak gibberish.
If he were a major league organizational talent he'd have left ExxonMobil long ago and be part of some private investment/equity group.