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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (68766)	4/27/2018 8:03:58 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Respond to of 363706

I assume you're speaking of "transactional" vs. "transformational" (those are the two terms I learned in my obligatory management courses, but I can't remember the differences). That's not what I had in mind. I meant something more like linear vs abstract or serial vs top-down. I have a friend who is transactional. When something shows up in his "inbox," he disposes of it expeditiously however seems fit at the moment. Next item up. Items are discrete. But as to your comment, the "willing base" here isn't the key audience. Sure seems to me like that's the audience he cares about, the one he goes home to with a collection of applause lines. What is required is to impress upon decision makers the importance of what he's doing. I don't see him trying to collaborate with outsiders let alone win anyone over. Outsiders are enemies either to be bullied or discredited. That's the way he knows how to operate, the way he has always operated, the hammer alone in the toolkit. You can win transactions with either of those power tactics. Impressing decision makers, not so much. Transactions don't build anything or convey anything. The thing about a transactional approach to big problems is that you get a lot of Phyrric victories because the parts are nor recognized as parts, thus uncoordinated. They still go on the shiny-object list, but they don't win any wars. Is is folly to judge the intellect of a president by the slickness in his language. You can determine the type of intellect by the person's use of language. ...his experience in life is considerable. Fifty years worth of one-year's experience.