Re: Scientists against Bush or Swift Boats against Kerry - whom would you believe? Tin cans don't have minds!

From: Jack Love (jackxxloveyy_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:05:12 -0800

On 08 Nov 2004 05:52:34 GMT, gherbert@retro.com (George William
Herbert) wrote:

>*** Morris <ramorris@isomedia.com> wrote:
>>When the President of the United States calls you, you FIND OUT what's going
>>on.
>
>***...
>
>The President being on the phone with you does not improve
>lateral communications channels. There's nothing magic about
>the President calling you that makes serious structural
>communications problems go away. The 9/11 commission
>report clearly details what was wrong and it's hard to
>see how any single person at any level working with the
>system as it stood and reacted could have fixed that.
>
>Throwing weight around and screwing with subordinates
>inappropriately is a good way to make crisis response
>worse not better.
>
>Being so upset with Bush that you would prefer grossly
>abusive and ineffective crisis management behaviour to
>what he actually did is disturbed behaviour on your part.

It's pretty clear that Mr. Morris hasn't managed anything much more
complex than a Cub Scout patrol or he'd have a bit more clues in hand
about how difficult coordination of numerous groups gets when top
management starts pointlessly stick their oars in.

>
>-george william herbert
>gherbert@retro.com