I hate many common sports analogies, where a presidential debate is likened to a boxing match, and the election itself, to a horserace.
What I do love are football analogies, especially for business, or any organization with structure, management, leadership, and human resources issues.
I believe the head coach of an NFL team is much like a CEO who happens to operate in an extremely visible, objective and measurable workplace, with clear wins and losses and statistics. The head coach has intense management duties, encompassing all of the traits of classic business management, from leadership, through program implementation and control, delegation and vast responsibility. In fact, an NFL head coach’s hair tends to go gray at a rate almost consistent with our own President Obama’s hair. (Sorry, no link. That was based on anecdotal data only, but still more reality-based than Mitt’s statements).
Speaking of Mitt, please join me just below the vomitt stain…
Mitt Romney has a clear track record of self-enrichment along with his public service. Mitt’s modus operandi during his business career was to “harvest” a business, after allowing it to stew in Bain’s juices for a set period of time. The goal was to make money. The motivation was to make money for the investors in the business. ANY AND ALL eventualities from this business operation formula were mere side effects of the money-making investment endeavor.
Once again, I see a great football analogy here, which makes quite clear Mitt’s business technique.
I am an Eagles fan, and my wife a Giants fan. I hate the Dallas Cowboys. God, how I hate them. But damnit, years ago, I had to respect Jerry Jones, their owner. (Notice I said “years ago”). Sure, he wanted to make money and be uber-famous, but he wanted to win the Super Bowl. His goal was to win the Super Bowl, and that goal and attitude permeates an entire organization….FROM THE TOP DOWN.
Mitt is more like any number of shitty teams, who are in it only for the money, and never think of the real goal, the Super Bowl. They are content to collect their annual guaranteed check: their 80 million plus share of the TV contract, year in and year out, and charge their loyal loving fans thousands of dollars for lousy on-field product, forcing them to shell out for preseason games and $20,000. licenses for the future right to buy seats to see more intentionally-lousy product. They charge 25 bucks just to park the car, and twelve for a beer. They gut the organization of $$$ and talent, hiring lousy cheap coaches and scouts, making players pay for their own socks, and basically becoming an embarrassment: a money-making hollow, useless, uncaring embarrassment.
These NFL owners are some of the top CEOs in the country. They know very well what they are doing, every step of the way. They hire inept cheap talent to scout and coach players, so yes, as football teams, they are quite lousy and ignorant. However, as businesses, they are successful gold mines.
I give you Mitt Romney.
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