Conservative Mangement Style vs. Liberal Management Style

[bryant69]

We have seen in the last 28 years or so five presidents. Carter, Reagen, Bush, Clinton, W Bush.

Carter and Clinton were famous as hands-on presidents. IN fact this was often seen as a weakness in the Carter Presidency; he was so hands on that he often seemed paralyzed by the minutea. Of course Clinton had more success, but was also very hands on.

Reagen and our current President have a much more distant Management Style--they delegate most of their stuff out--and trust their staff to handle things. This helps explain why Bush and Reagen get such wonderful vacations, and Clinton was, apparently, always overworked.

Now keep in mind that there are advantages to both approaches. Obviously someone with Clintons energy was able to make the hands on approach very successful--while a more hands off approach frees your staff to fulfill your orders (and it provides plausible deniability in the event of, say, the Iran-Contra affair?

Where do we think the Democratic Candidates are going to be? I was thinking of this in relation to Dean, who seems very much like he'd be the more hands on type--but that's not based on anything but his image.

Just curious--although perhaps this is one of those subjects that is of much more interest to me than to anybody else.

Bryant
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