LEADERSHIP TRAINING WITH HOSPITALITY KING TRUMP

Leadership training comes in two flavors: you’re born with it, or you learn it.

Those choices exclude too many, though.

Some rise to leadership based on circumstances.

Where someone would ordinarily lay back, the situation calls for them, for someone, to lean forward.

Did Trump, the Hospitality King, receive leadership training, or was he born with it?

Traditionally, a leader finds their role based on experience. They do something well enough that others notice them and want to learn.

For instance, when you see a guitar player’s fingers flying up and down the fretboard, what are you really seeing and hearing?

“Damn, they were born to play guitar. It’s like a gift from God.”

Or, is it something else? Like practice, practice, and more practice?

Which is it? Since God knows all and sees all, where is playing guitar like a god come in?

After lots of practice. After muscle memory. After dedicating time for practice and developing muscle memory.

How did Trump become an icon of self-centered boorishness that welcomes analysis from the medical and non-medical observers? Was it developed over years of practice and applying the skills learned in leadership training?

Leadership Training For The Hospitality King Trump

A man in his 70’s has had lots of exposure to leaders and influencers.

He’s seen leadership evolve and watched the results.

Somewhere along the line he got the results he wanted for the money and effort he put out.

Sound fair enough to you?

“You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes. . . . Almost all real estate developers did – and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport.” 

“Some fraction of Donald Trump’s losses can be attributed to depreciation,” Susanne Craig, one of the authors of the Times piece, wrote in a tweet, responding to Trump. “We found most of it was just bad business.”

Was it bad business for the guests in his hotels, the gamblers in his casino? We all know casinos aren’t in business to lose money, but somehow it happened to Trump.

Whose fault is still a mystery, because we know the buck doesn’t stop anywhere near his desk. His responsibilities are found elsewhere.

The glow of Trump’s success propelled him to the White House after a television show depicted him as a competent rich man.

From being a skeevy, handsy, old man in Hollywood, he became America’s #1 Citizen.

From there we learned more about his leadership training.

The General Idea Of Leadership

In the Trump universe the learning curve is short and flat, as you’d expect from someone who knows everything and doesn’t see the value in learning.

Does he seem like someone who’d say, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”

With that in mind, Trump sees himself as the smartest man in the room. Any room.

JFK had a White House dinner where he invited Nobel Prize winners.

He had this to say:

I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

How would this welcome sound in Trump-speak?

The people Trump gathered around him during his four years in the White House all come away with the stench of their time served, no matter how short.

The people with the worst stink were the military generals he recruited. And shamed.

How many times did the generals who served under him regret joining his crew?

Trump’s sense of military men and women as “killing machines” was what drew Trump to populate his cabinet early on with generals like Michael Flynn, John Kelly, James Mattis, and H.R. McMaster.

Unlike some perceptions, generals don’t get promoted from lower ranks. No one signs up and becomes a general right off. They go to colleges and schools and take on assignments that show them in a bright light.

Then they stood in Trump’s shadow

Did their lifetime of leadership training, both received and given, rub off on Trump?

Which one would you point to for the insurrection on Jan. 6?

Looking at three star Lieutenant General Flynn for that.

That’s poor leadership, general.