In my job I find the hardest part is to deal with decision making based on opinion, emotion, or spur of the moment ideas. This is the way the US government works. Every senior leader, regardless of whether he/she is a General or a Civilian makes multi-million dollar decisions based on nothing more substantial than a set of briefing slides. Then, regardless of whether the decision is good, bad or indifferent, their successor will want to review and probably change that decision. This leads to tremendous waste, and serves as a model of what the Obama administration believes is the way to run things.
In flying we had a saying. There was nothing more useless than altitude above you, runway behind you, and airspeed you don't have; for the Federal government it would be last years budget. Your money wasted last year should have no impact on the decisions we make this year.
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