Originally Posted by dynalow

I would have assembled a better team...and monitored progress against an established timeline. And I would have kept my superiors informed of problems.
That's what I would have done. That's what they failed to do.

I have little doubt both you or I could have done a better job than Sebelius.

Let me tell you a story. My daughter called me from LA a few years ago. She had been on her new job out there a few months and her boss put her in charge of coordinating a tour of an entertainer they had under contract. They were flying from Europe to Japan and they hit a snag. One of the band guys left some needed travel documents behind or had not updated someything and he was being denied entry into Japan. She calls me on her way back fron the spenfing two hours in the Japanese consulate in LA in a panic.First thing I tell her was you must call your boss and tell him your problem. I also told her to have a suggestion or two to offer as possible alternatives.
I don't know what she told him or how they got the problem resolved, but the show went on.

"The effective executive gets the right things done." Period.