Would you hire this man to run the most successful and generous corporation in the world?

Suppose for a second that the United States of America is a corporation, and you, a citizen, are a stockholder in that corporation. Further suppose that your corporation has been going through a rough patch for the last half a year or so after 30+ years of strength. And finally, suppose that the current President of your corporation is retiring, and you need to hire a new President. Forgetting for the moment, that your corporation has real enemy’s intent on literally destroying it, would you hire this man?

Imagine that this man comes to you and says he wants to change everything your corporation has done for the past 30 years as the most successful and generous corporation in the world. He doesn’t want to change a few things that your corporation has done successfully for the last 30 years. He wants to change everything. He is saying 100% change.

So you ask this man, have you ever done any of these things before? Have you ever run a corporation of any size? Have you ever been an employee of a corporation that has done the things that you are talking about?

This man replies to you that he has not, but he has heard about it. Then the man goes on to lecture you about all of your failings as stockholders. How you have been a moral failure for not giving more of your corporate earnings to help the poor. How he and only he can make your corporation what it really needs to be. How he is the one you have been waiting for lo these past few centuries.

When you ask this man for a resume, he replies you’ll need a court order to see it. When you ask this man for references, he tells you that he’s got a few new friends that you can talk to who don’t know him very well and have just recently changed their view of him, but other than that, he really hasn’t been close to anyone.

Finally, this man’s wife shows up. She tells you, you better get this man now, because after today, he won’t be available any longer. Oh, and by the way, until you decided to interview him to run your corporation, she had never been proud to be a fellow stockholder in the most successful and generous corporation in the world.



Would you hire this man? Really? Would you?