We are now all working under the bad boss. You know him. He’s the one who comes in thinking he knows everything, and instead of taking the time to watch, listen, and ask questions, just smashes everything up. It takes years for people to clean up after him.

As just one of many examples, it seems few disagree that USAID had notable problems as an agency. But the good boss, (not the one with the expensive suit and ready buzzwords who duped the board into hiring him), puts a pause on new programming while he takes a look at what needs to be improved, and then gets input from employees before moving forward. What’s already been funded he lets alone. After all, the good boss knows you need to pay your bills.

He doesn’t ravage the good and necessary along with the misguided and ineffective.

The good boss doesn’t destroy the good will of his customers and partners by vaporizing the “soft” but very real power that their gratitude and loyalty had earned him.

Who benefits from the bad boss’s approach? In this case, Russia and China look on, smirking.

The pendulum will swing back. Eventually some of the damage will be repaired. In the meantime, people across the world, including infants and children, will starve, get infected or die. That’s fact. It’s already happening.

I don’t understand why that’s what has to happen in order for the people who hired the bad boss to feel like they accomplished something.

Patricia Crosby

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