Comments on: Jobs, leverage & the future: Thoughts about the challenges of an economic hard place http://www.viralhousingfix.com/2010/01/25/jobs-leverage-the-future-thoughts-about-the-challenges-of-an-economic-hard-place/ Information, analysis and commentary on media & marketing Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: StephanieBShuttson http://www.viralhousingfix.com/2010/01/25/jobs-leverage-the-future-thoughts-about-the-challenges-of-an-economic-hard-place/comment-page-1/#comment-1617 StephanieBShuttson Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:33:27 +0000 http://www.viralhousingfix.com/?p=2767#comment-1617 The return of Lewis and Clark from their trip to the Pacific strengthened the belief that the country beyond the Missouri was not fit for habitation or use. The following year, 1807, one of the expedition's former members <a href="http://www.kennettnationalbank.net" rel="nofollow"><b>kennett national bank</b></a> was busy prospecting for beaver and other fur-bearing creatures. This rugged, hard-headed mountain man, John Colter, worked his way into the high plateau country in what is now northwestern Wyoming. The return of Lewis and Clark from their trip to the Pacific strengthened the belief that the country beyond the Missouri was not fit for habitation or use. The following year, 1807, one of the expedition's former members kennett national bank was busy prospecting for beaver and other fur-bearing creatures. This rugged, hard-headed mountain man, John Colter, worked his way into the high plateau country in what is now northwestern Wyoming.

]]> By: danielrmccarthy http://www.viralhousingfix.com/2010/01/25/jobs-leverage-the-future-thoughts-about-the-challenges-of-an-economic-hard-place/comment-page-1/#comment-873 danielrmccarthy Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:09:24 +0000 http://www.viralhousingfix.com/?p=2767#comment-873 I've got the same optimism about a mid-course correction by Obama. I don't think it will be wholly integrated in his approach with the State of the Union. He's still synthesizing things. What I think we've seen this year is that his pace and the pace required of his office aren't synchronized. Afghanistan is the best example; he needs to work through problems deliberately in order to come to a solid personal decision. When he took office, he needed to make fast and decisive decisions about which people were going to fill which slots and deal with triaging the system. I don't know that he's lost his independence. He just can't control the pace. Which, as we both know, is one of the biggest challenges of a new manager and leader -- understanding how to be confident in his decisions while setting the right pace for the organization. <br><br>This manager is still learning. I've got the same optimism about a mid-course correction by Obama. I don't think it will be wholly integrated in his approach with the State of the Union. He's still synthesizing things. What I think we've seen this year is that his pace and the pace required of his office aren't synchronized. Afghanistan is the best example; he needs to work through problems deliberately in order to come to a solid personal decision. When he took office, he needed to make fast and decisive decisions about which people were going to fill which slots and deal with triaging the system. I don't know that he's lost his independence. He just can't control the pace. Which, as we both know, is one of the biggest challenges of a new manager and leader — understanding how to be confident in his decisions while setting the right pace for the organization.

This manager is still learning.

]]> By: danielrmccarthy http://www.viralhousingfix.com/2010/01/25/jobs-leverage-the-future-thoughts-about-the-challenges-of-an-economic-hard-place/comment-page-1/#comment-703 danielrmccarthy Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:09:24 +0000 http://www.viralhousingfix.com/?p=2767#comment-703 I've got the same optimism about a mid-course correction by Obama. I don't think it will be wholly integrated in his approach with the State of the Union. He's still synthesizing things. What I think we've seen this year is that his pace and the pace required of his office aren't synchronized. Afghanistan is the best example; he needs to work through problems deliberately in order to come to a solid personal decision. When he took office, he needed to make fast and decisive decisions about which people were going to fill which slots and deal with triaging the system. I don't know that he's lost his independence. He just can't control the pace. Which, as we both know, is one of the biggest challenges of a new manager and leader -- understanding how to be confident in his decisions while setting the right pace for the organization. <br><br>This manager is still learning. I've got the same optimism about a mid-course correction by Obama. I don't think it will be wholly integrated in his approach with the State of the Union. He's still synthesizing things. What I think we've seen this year is that his pace and the pace required of his office aren't synchronized. Afghanistan is the best example; he needs to work through problems deliberately in order to come to a solid personal decision. When he took office, he needed to make fast and decisive decisions about which people were going to fill which slots and deal with triaging the system. I don't know that he's lost his independence. He just can't control the pace. Which, as we both know, is one of the biggest challenges of a new manager and leader — understanding how to be confident in his decisions while setting the right pace for the organization.

This manager is still learning.

]]> By: dankaplan http://www.viralhousingfix.com/2010/01/25/jobs-leverage-the-future-thoughts-about-the-challenges-of-an-economic-hard-place/comment-page-1/#comment-697 dankaplan Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:38:33 +0000 http://www.viralhousingfix.com/?p=2767#comment-697 Dan - Great writing and great perspective. An additional thought I might throw in, which is a perspective on how the voters turned so quickly against the President. (He won Massachusetts by 26% just 14 months ago!) I think Obama did not understand his own election. He went to Washington and quickly started playing like a Washington insider. He did not comprehend, or perhaps take full advantage of the mandate the voters had given him. They wanted change. Real change. The President ended up pushing agendas that, while worthwhile, were not tied to where the voters were. Health care reform is wonderful, but it's not what the voters want right now. The phenomenally astute political operation that got him elected ended up with a tin ear once they moved into the West Wing. The really cool thing about the Massachusetts election is they (the White House) can make course corrections before they run into a real disaster this fall. We will see which Obama we get with the State of the Union this week -- a president who remembers how he got elected, or a president intent on an agenda that is out of synch with what the people of East Bridgewater were looking for a year ago. (Incidentally, I have been reading "This Time It's Different" and bottom line, as you say, we are doomed to repeat our cycles over and over.) Dan – Great writing and great perspective. An additional thought I might throw in, which is a perspective on how the voters turned so quickly against the President. (He won Massachusetts by 26% just 14 months ago!) I think Obama did not understand his own election. He went to Washington and quickly started playing like a Washington insider. He did not comprehend, or perhaps take full advantage of the mandate the voters had given him. They wanted change. Real change. The President ended up pushing agendas that, while worthwhile, were not tied to where the voters were. Health care reform is wonderful, but it's not what the voters want right now. The phenomenally astute political operation that got him elected ended up with a tin ear once they moved into the West Wing. The really cool thing about the Massachusetts election is they (the White House) can make course corrections before they run into a real disaster this fall. We will see which Obama we get with the State of the Union this week — a president who remembers how he got elected, or a president intent on an agenda that is out of synch with what the people of East Bridgewater were looking for a year ago. (Incidentally, I have been reading “This Time It's Different” and bottom line, as you say, we are doomed to repeat our cycles over and over.)

]]>