Daily Archives: February 4, 2009

Ain’t as Easy as It Looks

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When someone is running against an incumbent - in politics or in business - it is always easy to critique and to say, “That is wrong. Here is how it should be done.” If you say it with enough conviction, people will believe you too.

Shadow boxing and saying “I can do better” is a good way to get elected or sometimes to get the new job or promotion.

But the day to day reality of leading and managing an enterprise comes with a series of tough decisions and life is complicated and full of surprises. Sometimes things don’t work out with no fault of your own.

Our new President had a tough day. Two key folks that he supported withdrew their nominations. Add these nominations to Bill Richardson at Commerce. Ouch.

Three bad choices for key management positions, you just know someone is keeping notes and tabs on the other side and will use this information the same way our new President would have done with this info against the incumbent.

The circle of life will continue.

Same old same old.

Blame. Recrimination. Gotcha.

We are For Real

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Don’t you think?

We have played a pretty tough schedule post All-Star game: Boston. Detroit. Ottawa. New Jersey.

We have garnered 7 of 8 points.

We have played quite well against the tougher foes in the East. We have a 14 point lead over the number 2 team in the Southeast division.

But we are all still restless. We know we can play better defensively and play better on the penalty kill. We still seem to be bitten by the injury bug with Clark, Johnson, Kozlov and Pothier.

As an aside, I knew Mike Green would play with a chip on his shoulder post All-Star team snub. He is looking like a first team All-Star on D to me of late!