Originally Posted by
KRviator
But if you are the elected leader of a country going through such a terrible period, then bloody well lead! .... hell even just becoming a central point on the news every morning and evening for Australian's to focus on is better than standing on a beach in America, smirking and with a schooner in hand while people are dying at home..
You can make an analogy with the recent airport failings.
Show leadership - be there in the terminal where the unfolding crisis is happening and show your presence rather than hide out at the HQ Welcome back party and yoga session. The HQ building may only be less than a kilometre from the terminal but it might as well have been across the Pacific Ocean given the disconnect between corporate staff and frontline workers putting out daily fires.
Admit your failings, even if you believe they only made a minor contribution. It humanises you and lets workers know you're like them, humans. Instead of just shifting blame to everything else.
Instead you piss off your frontline workers and any failings are covered for by friendly media coverage which sees you get "re-elected" (stay on as executive management)
However the sharemarket sees the situation in the terminals as "well at least the revenue is increasing whilst management have cut costs so profit!" so they see it as a win for those with that profit. They don't care about the human element, that those at the coalface deal with daily.