{"id":52422,"date":"2020-04-11T19:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T00:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52422"},"modified":"2020-04-11T19:10:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T00:10:21","slug":"little-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52422","title":{"rendered":"Little Managers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Little Managers<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Steve Schapiro\u00a0Muhammad Ali, Monopoly, Louisville, KY\u00a0<\/strong>1963<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s funny how things go sometimes, how times roll -not just the good ones-. I said last week that all the world\u2019s \u201cleaders\u201d had failed terribly, and I\u2019m not taking that back. They all failed to a horrific extent at their no. 1 task when it comes to Disasters, Pandemics, whatever their respective governments file these events under: Prevention. But now we\u2019re in a whole new world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now these failed leaders move into a situation they actually MAY be able to handle. That is, the -crisis- management that inevitably follows AFTER the failure at their no. 1 task of Prevention. They MAY be able to pull this off because it\u2019s what they were trained to do: be little managers. You know them, because every company these days is full of them, and some will make it to biggest little manager status, through blind ambition and\/or licking up to previous little managers. Some may even become government ministers. Core characteristic: these people don\u2019t act, they re-act. Prevention is a job they\u2019re absolutely not qualified for<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Macron, BoJo, Merkel, Rutte, Xi, Abe, Conte, you name them, they\u2019re all little managers, they\u2019re not leaders, they have no ideas or visions, at least not original ones. People with original ideas don\u2019t become politicians, not in the climate we have created since the 1950\u2019s. The 20th century was poor anyway when it comes to vision, it was all about money, and no great vision has ever been derived from that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last century had Gandhi and Martin Luther King -and I would personally add Muhammad Ali-, and that combination says a lot about what we could have become vs what we have. In a way, the world chose money over itself. The 20th century was when Faust won, when humanity sold its soul. That it also sold its home, its planet, seems almost irrelevant compared to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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