Is Your Boss "A REAL DICK CHENEY"?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 1:23pm

Jonathan Alter of Newsweek on Countdown with Keith Olberman Wednesday:



ALTER: ...In workplaces across America, if somebody says, "He's a real Dick Cheney," what they mean is, a guy who sounds like he has a lot of gravitas in those meetings at your company, and looks the part, but is actually, you know, kind of full of it and can't get the job done when it comes to making a profit.

And so that's where these guys are now. Their credibility for getting the job done has been eroded, I think largely because they surround themselves with these yes-men, the truth doesn't get up the chain of command, as we saw with these trailers. So they—because people feel like if they tell them the truth, they're just going to get their heads bitten off. And as a result, your batting average on decisions goes down, down, down, your competence level goes down, down, down, because you're not making well-informed decisions.

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Read the transcript to the Wednesday show