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What? Palin lied? Oh...nooooooo.....
Eisboch wrote:
"A Real Boater" wrote in message . .. wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:02:00 -0400, A Real Boater wrote: Palin, saying she did not authorize the expenses for the travel, cited that trip as a primary example of the insubordination that led to Monegan's firing. And if this is an example of her "executive experience", Alaska can keep her. WTF, the Public Safety Commissioner has to get his itinerary approved? Talk about micro-managing. Try this in Washington and her head will explode. When I worked for the teacher's union, one of my subordinates in a regional office needed a camera for some of his newsletter work. At one weekend board meeting, the 30-member board debated that purchase for two hours and finally turned it down. Money was not tight. So, after the meeting, I gave him the camera I was using and bought another. I had the power of the pen up to $5000; he did not. The camera was about $125. I have a really hard time with micromanagers. If he was your subordinate and you could authorize and sign up to $5k, why did he have to go before a 30 member board for a $125 capital expenditure? Something doesn't add up. Eisboch He reported to me for his assignments, but he reported to the regional administrator there for operational (non-salary & fringe) budgetary purposes. I had authority to recommend the hiring and discipline of my subordinates, and to direct their activities. I don't know how it works these days, but that is how it worked back then. The board was deep into micromanaging in those days. The problem was the organization was emerging from its old style of governance into a more political structure. The old way was a professional staff exec director who ran the professional staff and an elected president and board who ran the politics. The board more and more was intruding into staff management. The old exec director model is gone. Those were really the fun days of my young career in trade unionism. I had just joined the union staff after working on two political campaigns in Michigan and after a stint working for SW Tom's hero, Saul Alinsky. I spent a few months on the union flying squad and then was sent to New York to handle a few assignments. Hehehe. When Nixon imposed his wage-price regs, I had to fly back out to Chicago and tell 2000 teacher leaders why classroom teachers were not going to be exempted. Now that was a interesting presentation. But not as much fun as dumping caskets full of books on the steps of a board of education building. |
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