Even though the president has agreed to a three week break in America’s longest running partial shutdown, shutdowns provide some unique opportunities. Should some “unessential services†be permanently shut down or downsized?
Peter Drucker, one of the most influential and respected business minds in American history, challenged businesses to exercise “organized abandonment.†He advised: “The first change policy as to be organized abandonment. The change leader puts every product, every service, every process, every market, every distribution channel, every customer, and every end use on trial for its life. And the change leader does this on a regular schedule. The question he has to ask is ‘If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we know now, go into it?’ If the answer is no, the reaction must not be ‘Let’s make another study.’ The reaction must be ‘What do we do now?’†What we do now, is eliminate what is no longer necessary.
We have a business man as a president. He is fighting the swamp and “business as usual†in Washington. “Business as usual†is what has allowed the Washington swamp to grow and keep growing. Automatic budget increases are expected and built into budgets. Take a minute to ponder—Just what have you missed since the start of the partial shutdown? There are times in your life your family had to make tough decisions of what to cut and get by with less. Why should the federal government budget be any different?
https://townhall.com/columnists/terrypaulson/2019/01/28/what-is-essential-n2540228
