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Government is a bad match for Trump鈥檚 management style
Published: 2 May 2017
Donald Trump鈥檚 100-day-old presidency has come up short according to nearly any metric. As the U.S. President has failed to get major legislation passed, or to fill some key government positions, he has taken to governing by executive order. But even those orders haven鈥檛 really produced the results he was looking for.
Still, President Trump has surrounded himself with captains of industry with as little experience in governing as he has. The upshot is a lack of movement on even seemingly easy GOP issues like repealing Obama鈥檚 healthcare law.
Desautels Professor Henry Mintzberg calls the concept of running a country like a business 鈥渟illy.鈥� Of the current administration, he says that 鈥淚t鈥檚 the blind leading the blind.鈥�
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