But if the entire company goes to shit on your watch.........i mean......the buck does stop somewhere, right? I don't think reasonable people (of which I THINK Gruss is one) blame Bush for EVERYTHING...but he's certainly the captain a ship that's hit about every iceberg in it's path.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Michael Dinowitz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gruss holds Bush accountable for everything. No compromise, no thought of > delegation, no thought of his political opponents doing wrong. Only Bush. I > have problems with that. > I'm a publisher. I'm ultimately responsible for everything I publish. I > have > an editor in chief (2 actually), both of whom have responsibilities to > interface with the writers. One of them is under contract and the other is > my wife. So that's now one level away from me. We have editors also under > contract who mostly communicate with the editors in chief. Another level > away from me. We have writers who are under contract who mostly deal with > the editors. I can go on and on but the bottom line question is - if > someone > down the line violates their contract without me or other people down the > line knowing about it, who's the blame? The person who did the violation or > me? I'm not absolving myself of responsibility but there is no way I'm > going > to accept that I, my wife, or anyone else down the line to the violator has > SOLE accountability. > That's the problem here. > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What *about* accountability and leadership. I think Gruss' point is > > that we don't see much of those from Bush. For what it is worth I > > agree, and Gruss and I don't agree on much. > > > > > Accountability. Leadership. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:273360 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
