Shouldn't I be on ignore?
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Shouldn't I be on ignore?
Highly ineffective, as well. In doing too much, he'd get nothing done.
Conjecture. You are assuming that people who care about details will not hire people to help them manage. You are boxing people into your stereotypes without being realistic.
The only effective POTUS in the last 30 years was also the only one who DID sweat the details.
People who do not care about details may not care about hiring good people .
The last 2 POTUSs were failures, because they were the sort of leaders that you think are good.
Trying to hire every employee at the federal level to match your cultural values means you'll not even get your government fully staffed, even after ten years. If you trust others to meet your culturl values, those values that are different from the prevailing culture will be diffused the further the hiring gets from you.
We are conflating a realistic scenario with my hypothetical.
I understand that my hypothetical is not going to happen, that is why I called it hypothetical.
However, if I had the power to hire and fire at will, as well as rewrite the laws, and revamp all government institutions, I would hire people who are on board with my objectives, and get a heck of a lot done a lot quicker than you think. I certainly would not be taking field trips to every organization. I would hire people to do the implementation, and hire other people to keep track of those people. I am not saying that it would happen, because I would not have that power, but if I did, things would happen.
Of course not everything would be finished in a year, or 10, or 20, but there would be changes.
I understand that my hypothetical is not going to happen, that is why I called it hypothetical.
However, if I had the power to hire and fire at will, as well as rewrite the laws, and revamp all government institutions, I would hire people who are on board with my objectives, and get a heck of a lot done a lot quicker than you think. I certainly would not be taking field trips to every organization. I would hire people to do the implementation, and hire other people to keep track of those people. I am not saying that it would happen, because I would not have that power, but if I did, things would happen.
Of course not everything would be finished in a year, or 10, or 20, but there would be changes.
Actually , my hypothetical presumed that the culture of government was already unified around my ideals.
In an alternative hypothetical, I could just rewrite all the laws and the constitution, and wait for these changes to permeate the government, and wait for the government to permeate other institutions. Admittedly, this process would take time, and the exact outcome would involve some evolution before it is completed, but rewriting the laws would effect culture to a large degree, unless there is a revolution halting the enactment of the new and improved legal system. The revolution would likely not come from what is generally thought of as culture though, it would more likely come from a subgroup of elite who would resist losing their power to the general culture.
In an alternative hypothetical, I could just rewrite all the laws and the constitution, and wait for these changes to permeate the government, and wait for the government to permeate other institutions. Admittedly, this process would take time, and the exact outcome would involve some evolution before it is completed, but rewriting the laws would effect culture to a large degree, unless there is a revolution halting the enactment of the new and improved legal system. The revolution would likely not come from what is generally thought of as culture though, it would more likely come from a subgroup of elite who would resist losing their power to the general culture.
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I understand that I would need a large staff to help rewrite the laws and the constitution.
It would probably take about 5 years, utilizing about the same resources that are currently spent on writing laws, and with the understanding that a lot of existing precedence and law would be just struck.
Total unity of existing government agency cultures would speed up the process considerably.
It would probably take about 5 years, utilizing about the same resources that are currently spent on writing laws, and with the understanding that a lot of existing precedence and law would be just struck.
Total unity of existing government agency cultures would speed up the process considerably.
No, under your scenario, you only have to make sufficient changes to shift the balance of power in the organization in favor of your objectives. Many people will be in favor of improving the organization and society. You are assuming that changes would be resisted, which is not necessarily the case. Also, most people will support whatever directions the organization takes if it is their own interests.
Obviously, I am not stating that i personally would micromanage individual personal decisions other than in my immediate surroundings.
As an alternative approach, there may be organizations that do massively resist improvement, in which case it may be simpler to just eliminate the entire organization. I realize that this is not usually practical, but the roadblock to doing that is not culture, but law, and you have already given me the power to wave my magic wand and rewrite the laws. Get ready for a tidal wave of change , baby!
