Poor leadership in action...

Just a few thoughts about leadership...

1. President Obama and using fear as a means of getting your way - If you're doing this, your base is going to fade away real quick. This isn't Chicago...so get over it and be the leader that you "claim" to be. Oh, BTW - stop with the campaign machinery that is on the Internet...if you can't get things straightened out by Labor Day, the electorate is gonna turn on the Democrats in 2010, and you'll find yourself dealing with the GOP in the majority in the House.

2. Jerry Jones (owner of the Dallas Cowboys) - this was off the Dallas Cowboys blog maintained by the Dallas Morning News:

Jerry made it clear that the Reeves departure was not about a control battle. And Jerry made it clear that no coach/consultant/executive has ever or will ever get ultimate control as long as he's roaming the Valley Ranch hallways.

"Not one time with any head coach in 20 years does anyone have an authority to hire a football player, fire a football player, draft a football player, hire a coach, an assistant coach," Jerry said. "In 20 years, not one coach has ever had it. I've always had it. I want to make that clear."

The Cowboys are a team that seem to be a textbook case of "the inmates running the asylum", where teamwork is a dirty word for some of the players, and Jerry seems to let the team run itself. This is a franchise that is in an almost constant state of turmoil, with problems on and off the field, and the Owner/GM (Jones) calling all of the shots.

I've worked both of these situations before while in the Navy, and I've told the "leaders" the truth - THEY SUCKED! Both people paid for the ineffective leadership with their promotion chances diminished, and they were the butt of jokes in the Officer's Wardroom and CPO mess....