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Government is a bad match for Trump’s management style

Published: 2 May 2017

Donald Trump’s 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’t 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’s healthcare law.

Desautels Professor Henry Mintzberg calls the concept of running a country like a business “silly.” Of the current administration, he says that “It’s the blind leading the blind.”

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