‘Bush 101: All Talk, No Management.’
By on May 6th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
‘Bush 101: All Talk, No Management.’
U.S. News reports “there could be a brand of Bush 101 taught in business schools soon” if Babson College business professor James Hoopes has his way. Hoopes has landed a publisher for his book, Hail to the CEO: The Failure of George W. Bush and the Cult of Moral Leadership. “His premise: President Bush, a Harvard University M.B.A. grad, is proof that business schools focus more on leadership than on management.”
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If I were Harvard, I’d revoke his degree now before it bites them any harder than it already has…
May 6th, 2007 at 2:06 pmAll hat, no cattle?
May 6th, 2007 at 2:06 pmHis thesis assumes GB actually went to class!!
May 6th, 2007 at 2:07 pmBush 101, No Style over No Substance
May 6th, 2007 at 2:08 pmPost Turtle 101.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:10 pmNot that Bush actually learned anything at Harvard.
Look how liberal these programs of study at the Kennedy School of Business are:
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/main/programs.htm
Once they let you in, you’re pretty much going to get the sheepskin.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:12 pmthe idea that a moron like this could pass high school is remotely possible, with a lot of help.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:13 pmbut getting through college in any form is absurd and would certainly have a trail of donations, quid pro quo?
Bush 101
May 6th, 2007 at 2:15 pmor
How Not To Succeed At Anything In Life
Uhm. U.S. News got it completely wrong. This is inaccurate.
The book is saying that B-schools are too focused on Leadership and not on management. The Babson professor is trying to get this re-evaluated.
As the author explains later, “Bush “doesn’t do nearly enough managerial work such as planning for the postwar occupation of Iraq or getting the supplies to New Orleans” (emphasis added).
May 6th, 2007 at 2:17 pmpardonez moi… as an mba instructor for 20 years, i vehemently disagree that biz schools teach leadership rather than management… leadership – REAL leadership – is precisely what they DON’T teach… rather, they focus on the mind-numbing minutiae of MANAGMENT disciplines such as finance, marketing, supply chains, information, computerized decision models, statistical analysis, micro and macro economics, etc, etc… this is why we have these incredibly narrowly-focused ceo’s who can’t think beyond the bottom line… george w. bush wouldn’t recognize REAL leadership if it bit him in his made-fit-by-cycling white ass…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
May 6th, 2007 at 2:18 pm“How Not To Succeed At Anything In Life
Comment by Raven — May 6, 2007 @ 2:15 pm”
Exactly.
‘Couldn’t find oil in Texas’… Doesn’t that pretty much sum up his business sense?
May 6th, 2007 at 2:19 pmThis is Bush’s managerial style:
“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”
He didn’t get that from Harvard. He got that approach from the bible:
“He that is not with me is against me.”
May 6th, 2007 at 2:22 pm–Jesus (Matthew 12:30)
all family name and connections… nothing else
May 6th, 2007 at 2:26 pmUnder Clinton you had some of the greatest public policy managers ever and we saw a win win win situation throughout the economy for the poor and the rich alike. Under Bush we saw the immediately saw the dot com bubble burst… which is a LOAD OF CRAP. It was not a bubble… it was an economy shift akin to the industrial revolution… and somehow we all got fleeced and my mutual funds and retirement savings went into some white collar criminals pockets.
So one can talk about leadership and management all they want, but this course will really need to focus on criminality and cronyism to accurately reflect the Bush style.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:32 pmEthics? Smethics 110
The Unitary Executive: Constitutional Superman 111
Congressional Oversight: When Not Enough Is Too Much 120
Advanced Brush-Cutting Technology 220
May 6th, 2007 at 2:40 pm12 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq attacks – 3 minutes ago Yahoo Home Page
BAGHDAD – A roadside explosion outside the Iraqi capital on Sunday killed six American soldiers and a journalist, the military said, among 12 U.S. deaths reported on a day when two car bombs killed at least 44 Iraqis at a Baghdad market and a police headquarters.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:41 pmthis professor is profoundly uninformed about the content and focus of mba curricula… i care not if he’s currently teaching in an mba program, he is seriously misguided… as an mba instructor for 20 years, it is my opinion that the major failures of graduate biz education in the u.s. are many… one of the biggest is that they DON’T teach leadership, they teach MANAGEMENT… oh, sure, there are tons of courses that are labeled “leadership,” but, in my experience, they don’t begin to teach authentic, principled leadership… instead they teach MANAGEMENT disciplines like finance, marketing, information management, decision-making, etc., etc… oh, sure, they have tons of courses labeled “leadership,” but they don’t begin to teach authentic, principled leadership, instead often opting for studying the Great Men like iacocca, gates, jobs, packard, dell, bezos, merck, porras, and welch, people who have achieved their success by an incredibly narrow focus on shareholders and the bottom line…
as for george w. bush, he wouldn’t recognize leadership if it bit him on his kept-fit-by-cycling white ass…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
May 6th, 2007 at 2:43 pmAfghan soldier kills 2 U.S. troops Yahoo page also
May 6th, 2007 at 2:43 pmGetting Daddy and His Business Friends to Bail You Out Failure after Failure 101
May 6th, 2007 at 2:47 pm3379 thats 25 since Bushes veto on Tuesday and 28 this month in 6 days average 5 per day
now Bush business lessons in classrooms whats that the shitas touch class
America would be bankrupt in 3 years totally –
why not write a book Presidencies for Dummies
May 6th, 2007 at 3:00 pmRepublicans are not beating down the door to follow Bush by enlisting, that’s for sure.
And on the domestic end the only thing he’s been able to do is sneak in a provision into the Patriot Act allowing him to obstruct justice.
So how is he a good leader?
May 6th, 2007 at 3:25 pmManagement by gimme a hallelujia! What a thesis.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:27 pmFor more on the failure of George W. Bush as America’s first MBA president, see:
May 6th, 2007 at 3:32 pm- “Cheater in Chief: Bush as the MBA President.”
- “Bush, Iraq and the 7 Habits of Highly Defective Presidents.”
All talk???? He can’t even do that right.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:38 pmBush pledges help for tornado victims
thats the victims been given a kiss of death
now to a life in tents for 5 years and free credit cards unless they spend money on them
May 6th, 2007 at 3:41 pmGraduating from Harvard used to actually mean something. Sigh.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:54 pmWay back when he was just getting started, he reminded me of all the execs I had worked for and didn’t like. The “do as I say, not as I do” school.
(The execs I had worked for and did like also shared some common traits, most notably, they never asked anything of us they wouldn’t do themselves, and often did.)
May 6th, 2007 at 4:14 pmAnyone in this administration needs a copy of “The No Asshole Rule”. Man, talk about a case study.
May 6th, 2007 at 4:35 pmhow could bush, the consummate failure at everything including being human ever be evidence of a school teaching either leadership or management? bush is representative of neither.
May 6th, 2007 at 4:38 pm.
I would like to hear from his professors to hear what kind of REAL work was done and what was their grading scale?
In my view, Bush has given a “bad” name to anyone who attends Harvard! Lets not exclude all universities, colleges that aim to give a student a degree with some meaning in their studied profession. See what money can get you…a plaque on the wall and if you really want it you may just learn something also!
Harvard+Bush=a bad thing!
May 6th, 2007 at 4:56 pmAll cheerleader, no study.
All fratboy, no student.
All drugs, no brain.
All talk, no sense.
All hat, no cattle.
May 6th, 2007 at 5:07 pm“His premise: President Bush, a Harvard University M.B.A. grad, is proof that business schools focus more on leadership than on management.”
It would appear that business schools also need to focus on ethics and responsibility. Or is that too much out of vogue?
May 6th, 2007 at 5:10 pmDubya’s management skills will be an example of the “Peter Principle” for being promoted to the level of incompetency. Dubya is a sock puppet for KKKarl Rove and Darth Cheney.
May 6th, 2007 at 5:26 pmThis is the growing GOP cover story: It wasn’t the ideology, it was the execution of it. Bad management is to blame. Just put the White House under new management –that is, Rudy Giuliani– and all will be well.
It’s a crock. It was the ideology. Enron wasn’t an accident, it was a premonition. And so was the Savings & Loans scandal 25 years earlier. Republicans lie to their base with talk of God, the Ten Commandments, smaller government, personal responsibility, lower taxes, and world domination, BUT, once in power, they just loot the treasury. And those fundamentalists Christian will forgive them, because that’s what they do –they are so gullible.
If Congress wants some proof, demand that Dubya open up the Presidential papers to Reagan and Bush Sr. These weren’t hidden by Dubya’s command for no reason at all. Heck, no. Half this administration was committing fraud and larceny back in the good old Iran-Contra days. I say, force a little history on America. Confession is good for the soul.
May 6th, 2007 at 8:56 pm“His premise: President Bush, a Harvard University M.B.A. grad, is proof that business schools focus more on leadership…”
Leadership over idiots and fools.
May 6th, 2007 at 9:21 pmWilly, yet another Republican situation that brings to mind BILLY MADISON. “I will take business ethics for $400″.
May 6th, 2007 at 9:33 pmBush proves that Harvard teaches failure?
May 6th, 2007 at 9:58 pmUsing Bush a s an example of the failures of business schools is like using Kurdt Cobain as an example of the failures of US drug policy and gun control. Hoopes is being incredibly disingenuous.
Bush bought his Harvard degree.
AF
If Broken, Still Strong.
May 6th, 2007 at 10:07 pmBush is a complete idiot. However, he did beat the best the Democratic party could offer. Twice.
May 6th, 2007 at 11:29 pmNo, paul, he didn’t. Try again, you neocon puppet.
May 6th, 2007 at 11:35 pmComment by paul — May 6, 2007 @ 11:29 pm
We agree on your point that George Bush is an idiot.
His electoral results, however, are not due to him alone, much less his charisma or dashing personality.
George Bush gained votes due to the fact that he surrounded himself with a team of people more than willing to waddle in the fetid cesspool of dirty politics -never above personal attacks, insults, smears, and fearmongering.
In other words, he was (and still is) unable to stand on his own merits, instead having to put others down so he can look good. If you find that to be a source of pride, be my guest.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:30 amI can’t imagine how anyone but a neocon could come to the conclusion that Bush is proof of how MBA programs teach leadership. He is a manipulator, not a leader.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:36 amProfessor Yoshihiro Tsurumi, one of Dumbya’s teachers at Harvard, has written critically about the behavior of his famous former student. Tsurumi even changed his citizenship from Japanese to American, just to have the freedom to talk out against Bush prior to the 2004. Those interested should google his name.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:37 amI think that Gary Shandling said it best on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher–but he was talking about the trash-talking Mayweather has been doing to de la Hoya….he said that he believes all of the posturing and name-calling is rooted in Mayweather’s overwhelming fear that he is about to get his ass kicked and is scared to death, which is exactly what I think is happening with W today.
May 7th, 2007 at 7:09 amI’ve used a method of truth extraction on all of his statements for awhile, and it never fails–
take W’s statement (or Cheney, Rove, any of the appeasers currently surrounding POTUS) rotate 180 degrees, and there you have the truth. Try it, it’s easy and it really works!
Has anyone been able to get a copy of his thesis?
If it actually exists, I wonder how much did his family pay to have it done, and told the author to use small words that Georgie could pronounce? Since he feels so entitled to everything he gets, he thinks because he paid for it he did it.
Did he have to do an “oral” for his thesis, I would have loved being a fly on the wall. Its amazing what money can do?
This illiterate, immoral, unethical, moron, small, small man, leads this country based on a bogus resume that his family bought and paid for to the detriment of all of us?
Harvard and Yale should be so proud, and share with this idiot the blood on “their” hands.
Pray for the families who have lost loved ones, after all in George Bush’s noble cause, only the people unable to pay their way through life actually have to live in the real world.
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