Friday, February 24, 2017

Public vs Private: Trumps Qualification for being Presdient


          On February 21st 2017 Bert Spector opinion article "Trump Wasn't a Real CEO. No wonder his White House is disorganized"  is directed towards the American people, to help clarify the early disorganized mess that is going on inside the Whitehouse. Bert Spector, the associate professor of international business and strategy at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northwestern University. He has also written about the distinction between public and private companies. The American Bar Association wanted him to write about what new corporate lawyers needed to understand about how business works.
            Spector raises concern for the main qualification people liked in Trump becoming President. He claims that the title of CEO Trump gave himself as the owner of his companies is disingenuous considering his companies are all private LLC’s. Spector presents the argument, that being a CEO of a private LLC business is nothing like being a CEO of a Public business like that of the U.S. Government. The CEO of a private business has no one to answer to or any opposition of power other than himself. The CEO of a public business has checks and balances such as shareholders and board of directors to hold the CEO accountable.
            The President of America is very comparable to a CEO of a public business, he has checks and balances that the constitution put in place during the development of our country. So, with the idea of America being a public business, Spector presents the only evidence Trump has running a public business as CEO. The Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, lead to five separate declarations of bankruptcy before finally going out of business.
            I agree with Spector’s argument that we should have concern if Trumps main qualification is that of running his private business, and with his only experience of running a public company ending in disaster. So, we should hold President Trump to a standard of transparency and checks and balances our country was founded on, if we are to make “America Great Again”. 

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