April 7, 2011

What if...

President Obama were CEO of a large corporation - a corporation with budget problems... From Warren Meyer at Forbes:
Why Do We Accept the Government Budget Process?
For years, I held various planning roles on the corporate staff of several Fortune 50 corporations. Part of my job was to pull our plans and budgets into a coherent whole for our CEO to discuss with the Board of Directors.

Watching the progress of the Federal budget talks in Congress and the Administration, I cannot help comparing these to similar discussions in the private world. It takes some pretty strong collective cognitive dissonance to accept budget �logic� in Washington that we would laugh at in any other venue. This week I will present a series of four vignettes, imagining Washington budget logic dropped into a corporate board room.
Warren then presents: "The �Vote Present� Plan", "The Unrealistic Plan", "The Fake Cut" and finally "Closing the Washington Monument". Pitch perfect and funny as hell if it weren't happening to us right now. These people would get their collective asses handed to them in the private sector... Posted by DaveH at April 7, 2011 8:48 PM
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