Sunday, November 26, 2017

Change Agent Rex Tillerson Takes Rusted State Dept. Down To Frame – “Career Diplomats” Apoplectic

NEVER TOO MUCH WINNING!


The Taming of The Shrewd – Change Agent Rex Tillerson Takes Rusted State Dept. Down To Frame – “Career Diplomats” Apoplectic…

Walking in a Winner Wonderland.  Oh yeah, the New York Times writes about the bloated bureaucracy and career diplomats being removed from the U.S. State Department as if it’s a bad thing.  The condescending DC elites cannot fathom why they are unable to stop Secretary of State Rex Tillerson from cutting the rust out of the enterprise and streamlining the mission.
No-one, repeat NO-ONE, could have pulled off what T-Rex is accomplishing except T-Rex himself; with the full support of President Trump, of course. The former leader of the worlds largest private business, Exxon-Mobil, is now systematically bringing efficiency and effectiveness to the worlds largest public institution, the State Dept.
One fundamental question: “what is your specific and quantifiable value to the core DoS mission; and how do we measure your effectiveness therein”? The lack of reasonable answers within the bureaucratic ranks is leading to massive downsizing.
Making America Great Again means Making Interventionism Irrelevant Again – The New York Times outlines why the diplomatic retention of irrelevant snobbery is vital to those within the State Department’s cocktail circuit influence network.  At the rate Tillerson is going he might even eliminate the entire staff for the Assistant Cultural Ambassador to the U.N. Center for Biodiversity and Southern Hemispheric Aquatic Species Rights. That’s the threshold where things are really going to get ugly:

1 comment:

thelastenglishprince said...

Read the complete article at work about an hour ago and then found it posted to Ibloga.

What an Exxon executive can do for Foggy Bottom is what Toyota did for Parkland Hospital on small scale.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/toyota/2017/11/20/toyota-improved-major-hospitals-er-purple-lights

Not sad to see Patrick Kennedy leave. He was in the chain of command that denied a more robust security configuration for Ambassador Stevens.

The fact is that bureaucracy and efficiency are mortal enemies. Only in the private sector, do we cut staff to the bone and "go lean" - hence, my own 24 hours of work in the past 48 hours. Were this DepState - my last 48 hours might have been comprised of sixteen hours of work or less.

Yes, T-Rex is doing what needs to be done but he is not paid to be popular.