Yeah, OK. Gruss Gott wrote: >> Bruce wrote: >> I love it how people who have neither served or have never been to >> combat talk on and on about how "they" would fight such and such >> conflict. Gotta love them armchair quarterbacks. >> >> > > I say I can run a property development company to staggering profits > never having been a property developer. I say that this company: > > http://www.bain.com > > Gets their clients profits 30% about the S&P 500 and their consultants > have typically never worked in the industries they re-architect. > > How can this be you say? How can you fix a business you have no > experience in? How can you manage a team of soldiers if you have been > in war? > > Because well run endevours all have the same things in common: they're > SMART. Once you recognize that you can do anything. It's a great > life philosophy for jobs, home life, war, whatever. Once you do > things SMART then all you have to is execute which includes finding a > good team (and even when people do things SMART if they don't have a > good team that can execute, they'll fail). > > As for time-bound, it means that given that you've chosen a specific > goal, you should be able to plan such that you'll finish by time x. A > good plan will, therefore, have some slop built into it for unforeseen > items and contingency paths for things that may happen, but not for > sure. > > For Iraq what this meant was that they should've been able to achieve > their goal by time X and leave OR have a worked contingency plan to > exit should they not have met that goal. > > They did not and do not. Thus the commander-in-chief has failed his > troops and should be removed from command. > >
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