{"id":57680,"date":"2025-09-17T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=57680"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:19:02","slug":"qotd-indecision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/17\/qotd-indecision\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Indecision"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>For those who&#8217;ve seen <em>Band of Brothers<\/em>, there&#8217;s a very telling conversation between Carville and Winters, as the sergeant complains about his platoon commander, Lt. Dyke:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s not that he makes bad decisions; it&#8217;s that he doesn&#8217;t make any decisions at all.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any time you see that situation in a manager, any manager, it is a flashing neon sign of incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons why Marxists make such poor managers is that if they are presented with a situation which cannot be addressed by Party doctrine, they are largely indecisive. Even worse, if that doctrine runs counter to good management, they will use that as the underpinning for their indecisiveness. We saw this a lot under Obama, who was pathetically underqualified as a manager, having had no executive experience in his entire life before becoming POTUS. More often than not, when faced with a decision, he simply froze and allowed events to dictate the outcome, even if that outcome was inimical to the interests of the country he was supposed to be governing. (And to prove my point above, his Marxist doctrine held that the United States was a malignant force in world affairs, so allowing harm to befall the country was \u2014 to his mind \u2014 actually the proper thing to do as it &#8220;corrected&#8221; or atoned for America&#8217;s past sins.)<\/p>\n<p>Kim du Toit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2020\/06\/04\/failure\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Failure&#8221;, <em>Splendid Isolation<\/em><\/a>, 2020-06-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who&#8217;ve seen Band of Brothers, there&#8217;s a very telling conversation between Carville and Winters, as the sergeant complains about his platoon commander, Lt. Dyke: &#8220;It&#8217;s not that he makes bad decisions; it&#8217;s that he doesn&#8217;t make any decisions at all.&#8221; Any time you see that situation in a manager, any manager, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,7,5,53,41,13],"tags":[158,572,261,101],"class_list":["post-57680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-history","category-military","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-leadership","tag-management","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-f0k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97917,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57680\/revisions\/97917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}