57. NahnCee:

I’m trying to remember – isn’t there a management theory taught to MBA’s that if you want to change an organization you have to do it within the first 30 or 60 or 90 days…

I’m not familiar with that theory in a formally expressed sense, but my professional background is in the broadcast industry, and that’s pretty much the way it was done whenever a new owner took over a property.

That said, sometimes it works well, and sometimes it doesn’t. We sometimes lose sight of the fact that theories are just tools, and matching the right tool to the job can make all the difference in the world to the outcome.

It’s entirely possible that Obama and his people are attempting to implement just this type of strategy from a purely management perspective.

My comments to barry, however, derive from more of a gut feeling I have that the real “powers that be”, the one that plucked a pliable tool named Obama from obscurity to serve as their tool, are being driven to force the agenda prematurely by something they fear, something which is at present unclear.

Of course, I have no hard evidence, so as I told barry, we’ll just have to hope we live long enough to see… /grin