Last Chance Saloon
Trump has been busy firing senior manager for his campaign for the past few months. The casualty list includes a political director, a campaign manager and now the latter's successor have all bit the dust. I know that Paul Manafort resigned but he would have been hard pressed to explain to the media why his own boss had hired two new inexperienced team members to "assist" him.
The best part of the story is that Trump will never admit his campaign is in trouble right until polling day. A troubled organization often have rapid turnover of senior management. Unless it is owned by some autocratic person in which his underlings will be playing musical chair. The turnover should be quite worrying especially in the light of a few facts. First, his full time staff has only about 70 people. In lean organizations, turnover causes problems because the rest of the team needs to pick up the slack when a person leaves and it takes time for the new person to get up to speed. Secondly, Trump has a nepotistic hiring practise for senior managers. (His 3 adult children, a son in law and a former golf caddy turn social media director.) which means that the load is borne by even fewer people. If you think that his family will work tirelessly for their father, you may want to check out the vacation this month. (A perk I believe that is given to all the remaining 60 plus staff?) Finally, the campaign has less than 3 months left to go. Things are also not looking good for Trump according to all the polls at the moment and the polls for Trump have been going south for a while.
But this is a problem with a lot of bosses. They spend their last resources acting like things are normal but their actions are full of last ditch measures (Eg. Firing people) or grasping at straws.(Eg. Hiring managers that have no experience). And it is usually their people that pay the price for their bosses' drinks at the last chance saloon.
The best part of the story is that Trump will never admit his campaign is in trouble right until polling day. A troubled organization often have rapid turnover of senior management. Unless it is owned by some autocratic person in which his underlings will be playing musical chair. The turnover should be quite worrying especially in the light of a few facts. First, his full time staff has only about 70 people. In lean organizations, turnover causes problems because the rest of the team needs to pick up the slack when a person leaves and it takes time for the new person to get up to speed. Secondly, Trump has a nepotistic hiring practise for senior managers. (His 3 adult children, a son in law and a former golf caddy turn social media director.) which means that the load is borne by even fewer people. If you think that his family will work tirelessly for their father, you may want to check out the vacation this month. (A perk I believe that is given to all the remaining 60 plus staff?) Finally, the campaign has less than 3 months left to go. Things are also not looking good for Trump according to all the polls at the moment and the polls for Trump have been going south for a while.
But this is a problem with a lot of bosses. They spend their last resources acting like things are normal but their actions are full of last ditch measures (Eg. Firing people) or grasping at straws.(Eg. Hiring managers that have no experience). And it is usually their people that pay the price for their bosses' drinks at the last chance saloon.
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