Management lessons learned from the US presidential campaign

What is the first thing comes to mind when the current US presidential camping is mentioned? I think most readers will agree with me that the first thing come to mind is the personal attacks that each candidate is waging and the time each candidate is spending on finding the faults of his opponent. What benefits the voters will gain from this?

If I were to vote, I don’t know yet which candidate to vote for, I cant tell which candidate is better for the country. Both candidates spend considerable amount of time on attacking each rather then spending time on telling the voters about their plans to lead the country for the next four years.

If your company were in the process to change the management team, what would you want to hear from the new (potential) managers? Would you want to waste your time listening to each candidate for the job talk about how bad the other applicants are or would you want all the applicants talk about how they will provide better management plans than the previous management team?

In the last few months, I have been working with one of our major contractors, our contract with them was up and it come to a renew, the renewal process included a bid that we had to submit (with other bidders) to win another year with them.

Throughout the bidding process, all bidders were submitting their proposals that showed their ability to do the job, no bidder wasted their time telling the customer how bad the other bidders were, they all focused on showing the customer that they were fit for the job.

Don’t waste my time telling me how bad the other guy is, tell me how good you are.