I’m one of those people who think that the best way to see if a person is well suited for his/her job, especially if it involves management, is to see how he/she performs his/her job under extreme preassure, when things are going to hell and people’s lifes are in the balance. By that meassure there are two people who should be fired. Obvious # 1 is Bush that didn’t do anything when he heard about the plane hitting the WCT and still nothing after the second one hit. And for a person who occupies the job as, as the americans call it, “the most powerful man in the world” that’s a pretty sucky thing to do.
But the close runner-up is now Laila Freivalds, our secretary of state. When I first heard about the disaster in asia when I got up on sunday 26th I kinda understood it was serious as hell but knew there was nothing I could do and was pretty sure the powers that be did all they could. Little did I know that meant going to the theater and not showing up for work until 11 am monday morning which is what she did. And now she’s seriously saying they didn’t know how bad it really was! If I get a call that we have a hard drive failure on our primary server in the weekend, I’m not gonna be able to relax or enjoy anything without trying to find out just how bad it is! But on TV there was Lottie Knutson being interviewed for a long time answering alot of questions and doing her best to be as responsible as she could and became like a familiar face as the “go-to” girl on this thing in sweden. Who was she? She’s in charge of public relations & information at one of our travelling agencies! But she knew how bad it was and desperately pleeded for help already on sunday evening. That’s pretty bad…
Someone who’s perfect for his job by this meassure however is LeRoy Cain, flight director at NASA when Columbia was suppose to come back. When he feared the worst he did exactly what he was supposed to do and kept the place cool.
Me? Well I proved in Copenhagen I can handle the stress and improvise myself out of a terrible situation…
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