Sunday, January 11, 2004
Ex-Secy of Commerce Should Know Better
I'll be glad when the tell-all books finally go away. Of course, that won't happen until every subordinate close to every powerful person understands such books never accomplish a thing, usually. Other than making the author look real small and stupid.
When I was younger, before I wrote professionally for a large air freight company and then for myself, I worked as an administrative/executive secretary to the president of an oil company, assistant to an ad agency boss, and assistant the viice president of a huge retail chain. In my fourteen years the culture in the executive wing, regardless of company or industry, was supported by the complete loyalty, expected from all people in power.
So when Paul O'Neill comes out with his sour grapes book this week, I have to again remind folks that the president has every right to run his shift his way. He is president, after all. And if he wants to sit in a room of deaf people, like a blind man, then it is his right. By the way, what does that mean? Whatever they were doing, it seems to have worked.
Another excerpt I've read concerns the fact that the Bush Administration had been planning the Iraq war before 9/11. Yeah. And? Iraq was in noncompliance with the UN. Bush and his neocon friends know how dangerous these people were becoming...they understood the importance of democractic beachhead in the middle east. Iraq's a perfect choice.
Count your blessings we have a president who understands the importance of taking the fight to the enemy and proactively places your safety ahead of all else. This is the fight of the millennium; there is no more important job for this president to accomplish.
O'Neill's book is silly, and he deserves to be humiliated. "We (at the White House) never listened to Paul anyway; why should we now?" Frankly, this is one CEO who shoulda known better.
Thanks for the read.
When I was younger, before I wrote professionally for a large air freight company and then for myself, I worked as an administrative/executive secretary to the president of an oil company, assistant to an ad agency boss, and assistant the viice president of a huge retail chain. In my fourteen years the culture in the executive wing, regardless of company or industry, was supported by the complete loyalty, expected from all people in power.
So when Paul O'Neill comes out with his sour grapes book this week, I have to again remind folks that the president has every right to run his shift his way. He is president, after all. And if he wants to sit in a room of deaf people, like a blind man, then it is his right. By the way, what does that mean? Whatever they were doing, it seems to have worked.
Another excerpt I've read concerns the fact that the Bush Administration had been planning the Iraq war before 9/11. Yeah. And? Iraq was in noncompliance with the UN. Bush and his neocon friends know how dangerous these people were becoming...they understood the importance of democractic beachhead in the middle east. Iraq's a perfect choice.
Count your blessings we have a president who understands the importance of taking the fight to the enemy and proactively places your safety ahead of all else. This is the fight of the millennium; there is no more important job for this president to accomplish.
O'Neill's book is silly, and he deserves to be humiliated. "We (at the White House) never listened to Paul anyway; why should we now?" Frankly, this is one CEO who shoulda known better.
Thanks for the read.
