I started creating my own personal concept for this after speaking with another physician in the Summer of 2022 as we reflected upon the leadership disasters of Spring 2020. We were both practicing in the inpatient setting in NYC during that.
I call it faux leadership. It's that group of people that look like leaders in a credential way, speech, or in manner of dress who are chronically on the lists of search committees. Because true emergencies are rare these people compete on looking like leaders rather than acting like a leader.
Some symptoms of the condition that manifest in the medical field:
- long emails explaining the 'unprecedented' situation and asking for our understanding and patience. The email cannot communicate any important ideas.
- when protocols do change, describe how this is no change at all but rather a continuation of the perfect plan that was ordained at the beginning.
- punish anyone in the ranks below who questions the approach or merely leads by doing reasonable things.
- praise people who have done clearly counter productive or directly harmful things because their intentions were pure(ly in line with the faux leadership talking points).
- create and/or approve policies and procedures that are performative and could sound good to some (daily check ins to say you don't have COVID symptoms) but do nothing to protect workers or patients.
- unilaterally ration care and surgery to seriously ill patients without allowing individual physicians to decide if they want to take on the risk of caring for ill patients, to whom we have supposedly have dedicated our lives to.
- fail to ever make true tradeoffs such as reducing/lightening documentation requirements so fewer physicians can take care of more patients. Instead live in a fantasy world where people just have endless energy to pour into work.
- instead of speaking directly to people causing team strife or performing poorly, send out vague, passive aggressive emails. Bonus points if you impose new, burdensome rules that do not fix the issue and only encumbered the people already rowing together.
- bring in outside consulting groups to have built in fall boys when implemented ideas fail.
- do not make decisions even in critical, time limited situations, instead set up committees with (not really) diverse view points that will come to consensus weeks (if you are so fortunate) after the threat has passed.
- punish people who make reasonable decisions on the frontline in dire circumstances.
And the worst part is that the faux leaders block, hinder and subvert real leadership. Worked in a large hospital, and was surprised that so much of the “leadership” was non-medical.
You will note that in the most critical situations, code blues and in the operating theater, clear levels are hierarchy are accepted and expected. Without a clear leader these situations are generally doomed. However, when you enter into areas where success is less well defined, these goons loom. That is the reason why it is so critical for these faux leaders to erode clear goals and purpose. Confusion of an organization is key to demoralizing it.
She's born in Egypt, a socialist and Muslim - how in the hell does she get dual citizenship in UK and the U.S.? Answer: She did it through marriage, and divorce to very rich men, lol. She's post-nationalist, post-American, post-classical liberalism - which is exactly who our elite want running things. Of course these riots happen under her. It's also important to note that Columbia has been nurturing radical Muslims and Jihad for 50 years. Eduard Said's "Orientalism", a Marxist faux history that ignores 1400 years of Islamic imperial conquest, enslavement (sexual and otherwise), slaughter and destruction, was created at Columbia. Obama was a favored student of Said and Obama is also befriended Rashid Khalidi who continued Said's nonsense and vicious ideological work. The entire point is to position the West as the apex predator/oppressor, as though Islam was a lil lamb that the Western wolf set upon.
The rot began long ago. It took 100 years to get here. Wake up.
“Ironic that Shafik fled civil unrest, only to bring it to the West.” And she’s not alone. It’s amazing to watch the hoards of people flocking to the west not to embrace democratic and free society that’s made us the envy of the world but to tear it down.
Yes. Their culture and their religion has nearly destroyed their home countries, and our government has allowed them to come here and work to destroy ours.
It's always amazing to me when they say how inclusive they are. It either demonstrates a complete lack of awareness or willful blindness. They are about as intolerant as it gets.
Inclusive of every progressive moronic idea and ideology. Inclusive of every infiltrator and invader that advocates torching the founding principles of the country. I’m so thankful she is sitting in the cesspool of the country and her inclusive student body and faculty will ensure her tenure is guaranteed regardless of what a shitstain Columbia has become. Mail the donors wise up and run her dumb ass out of the country
I am sure that the fact that she is Muslim had nothing to do with her deliberately allowing the Columbia campus to be overrun by Hamas supporters, and the chaos that ensued. The Jews on Colombia's board, and other donors, are simply and blindly suicidal.
Not blind - they supported it - but it was supposed to be targeted against the white patriarchy. In their shortsightedness, they didn’t anticipate that according to their own oppressor/oppressed dialectic, they themselves (Jews) could be classified as oppressors. They’ve lost control of their Frankenstein and now are engaging in damage control to try rein it in.
Shafik is a reflection of demorat elitist values. She is a globalist that when she has to govern locally, she is a zero ie totally inept. She should be fired immediately and the whole Columbia governance needs to be replaced!
There is an easy, simplistic way to solve higher education problems in America - take away every single government penny out of them, including student loans.
Without the money/fuel, there is no way commissars like this ugly and wretched woman can get paid a million dollars. No government money = no DEI. Tuition expenses would tumble and market forces will dictate how much a higher education is worth.
I know, just a dream... it is the only thing no one can take away from us, the proletariat.
38% of the money that runs the Ivy League where most of this nonsense comes from, is donated by wealthy billionaire alumni donors as tax donations. Those are the people you have to turn.
Amazing how the language used to describe her personal successes echoes the language she uses to describe her complete failure in handling the pro-Hamas student encampment and associated mayhem. I have seen this a lot in our own government—people who were present during crises act and speak as though that is some kind of accomplishment, even if it went poorly.
It is like Tojo, if he were so appointed, being lauded for “managing unprecedented domestic and foreign polycrises from 1941-44 through his constant and focused leadership role in the imperial government.”
People are starting to turn away from these horrible institutions and if you combine that with the fact that the next generation of students won't 'happen' because youth don't want to start families, these places will be in real trouble. Profile Smith College...they had quite the fall from grace ala a Jussie Smollett incident and a firing of an alum who refused to make everything about race. An Ivy-adjacent but once a proud place of nurturing young women who wanted their voices to matter. Thanks again, Yuri, for your sardonic viewpoint of these places that no longer deserve our respect.
Nah. As long as the Ivy's are a sure ticket to the 'elite' jobs and grad schools, people will go. Greed is more important than integrity or liberty or even our nation to most Americans at this point. By stripping us of our culture and self-respect, all most Americans have left is materialism. So they will keep going as long as it 'pays'.
The problem with most high achieving women is so many of them lack leadership skills. They don’t have charisma or authority that emanates from them and hence cannot inspire followers other than their identity groups. Everyone knows most are in these positions of power because powerful men put them there. No one has respect for unearned privilege. This big push for inclusion has resulted in a crisis of mediocrity in every institution in our nation. Consequences happen. Of course you can’t say these things to most women because emotional. There are many exceptions: Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II, Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar) to name some more contemporary examples.
Yeah. A certain type of woman wants to be obeyed because she's a woman. And she will leverage whatever male constructed systems to get that obedience. Just wait until one of these women is a US President. Bet on World War 3 at that point.
I love your writing. And biting sarcasm. The thing is, I know this kind of person and their cohort very well, I was once a part of it, yet I also know the blue collar community (and even the unskilled labor community) and everything in between.
I'd say for the record, that today, the Ivy League student protestors are the ACTUAL pool of unskilled labor, but not according to traditional labor economists. He.
I thought your comment about 'bureaucrats....pat(ting) each other on the back all day' was insightful, I wouldn't say its bureaucrats per se, but it is absolutely true that the academic/think tank/NGO/intellectual/media bien-pensant cohort absolutely engages in rituals of self-admiration and self-congratulation on a routine basis. This lady is absolutely part of that.
This cohort in question has, of course, always existed, and will always exist, but post WW2 the heads of academic institutions (and most businesses) were war veterans from the officer class, and in most cases had real experience in pressure under fire and dealing with common people, so they were well prepared to deal with social unrest and social friction. Today's cohort is entirely removed from dealing with Blue Collars and messy real life, so poor decisions, decision made abstracted from reality, are increasingly being made in all sectors.
I wrote to Minouche Shafik directly and also several times to alumni relations. I got one answer. It was the most generic, uninspired word salad, probably vetted by some lawyers. Did I potentially miss other replies? No, because the university was silent since October.
It's incredible and I cannot fathom the depth of failure. The school didn't make any effort to at least keep alumni posted on what's going on, and what the plan for a resolution is. Maybe 2 or 3 messages that some policy has been updated.
I can't express how disappointed I am. I've always wanted to send my kids there as well, but it's not going to happen, no way.
Great analysis of how this system works and I’m so glad I dropped out of college when I did decades ago not knowing what a commie Petri dish it is. It’s unbelievable how interlocked these people are to the globalists and how they happen to find their way into positions like this. Knowing this it wouldn’t surprise me in the least that there are “poets” grown in these universities who are carrying on these ideologies in their work.
I started creating my own personal concept for this after speaking with another physician in the Summer of 2022 as we reflected upon the leadership disasters of Spring 2020. We were both practicing in the inpatient setting in NYC during that.
I call it faux leadership. It's that group of people that look like leaders in a credential way, speech, or in manner of dress who are chronically on the lists of search committees. Because true emergencies are rare these people compete on looking like leaders rather than acting like a leader.
Some symptoms of the condition that manifest in the medical field:
- long emails explaining the 'unprecedented' situation and asking for our understanding and patience. The email cannot communicate any important ideas.
- when protocols do change, describe how this is no change at all but rather a continuation of the perfect plan that was ordained at the beginning.
- punish anyone in the ranks below who questions the approach or merely leads by doing reasonable things.
- praise people who have done clearly counter productive or directly harmful things because their intentions were pure(ly in line with the faux leadership talking points).
- create and/or approve policies and procedures that are performative and could sound good to some (daily check ins to say you don't have COVID symptoms) but do nothing to protect workers or patients.
- unilaterally ration care and surgery to seriously ill patients without allowing individual physicians to decide if they want to take on the risk of caring for ill patients, to whom we have supposedly have dedicated our lives to.
- fail to ever make true tradeoffs such as reducing/lightening documentation requirements so fewer physicians can take care of more patients. Instead live in a fantasy world where people just have endless energy to pour into work.
- instead of speaking directly to people causing team strife or performing poorly, send out vague, passive aggressive emails. Bonus points if you impose new, burdensome rules that do not fix the issue and only encumbered the people already rowing together.
- bring in outside consulting groups to have built in fall boys when implemented ideas fail.
- do not make decisions even in critical, time limited situations, instead set up committees with (not really) diverse view points that will come to consensus weeks (if you are so fortunate) after the threat has passed.
- punish people who make reasonable decisions on the frontline in dire circumstances.
Pinned this epic How To
And the worst part is that the faux leaders block, hinder and subvert real leadership. Worked in a large hospital, and was surprised that so much of the “leadership” was non-medical.
Correct. This is a key feature not a bug.
You will note that in the most critical situations, code blues and in the operating theater, clear levels are hierarchy are accepted and expected. Without a clear leader these situations are generally doomed. However, when you enter into areas where success is less well defined, these goons loom. That is the reason why it is so critical for these faux leaders to erode clear goals and purpose. Confusion of an organization is key to demoralizing it.
Faux leadership…what a great term.
Goodness. How in the hell did you wear a mask that long?
It had to insult your intelligence.
One of these people is a leader... one is not: https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/leadership?r=1neg52
She's born in Egypt, a socialist and Muslim - how in the hell does she get dual citizenship in UK and the U.S.? Answer: She did it through marriage, and divorce to very rich men, lol. She's post-nationalist, post-American, post-classical liberalism - which is exactly who our elite want running things. Of course these riots happen under her. It's also important to note that Columbia has been nurturing radical Muslims and Jihad for 50 years. Eduard Said's "Orientalism", a Marxist faux history that ignores 1400 years of Islamic imperial conquest, enslavement (sexual and otherwise), slaughter and destruction, was created at Columbia. Obama was a favored student of Said and Obama is also befriended Rashid Khalidi who continued Said's nonsense and vicious ideological work. The entire point is to position the West as the apex predator/oppressor, as though Islam was a lil lamb that the Western wolf set upon.
The rot began long ago. It took 100 years to get here. Wake up.
Well said
Spot on
At the risk of being too self-promotional, I posted a piece on Columbia's history of support for Islamists and Palestine in particular. Fills in more color... https://thisiswhatlosingfeelslike.substack.com/p/if-columbia-is-a-surprise-you-have?r=1ri4xv
“Ironic that Shafik fled civil unrest, only to bring it to the West.” And she’s not alone. It’s amazing to watch the hoards of people flocking to the west not to embrace democratic and free society that’s made us the envy of the world but to tear it down.
Color revolutions for everyone!
Taste the rainbow!
Yes. Their culture and their religion has nearly destroyed their home countries, and our government has allowed them to come here and work to destroy ours.
"Ironic"? Nope, rather, that's the entire purpose of importing her..
It's always amazing to me when they say how inclusive they are. It either demonstrates a complete lack of awareness or willful blindness. They are about as intolerant as it gets.
Inclusive of every progressive moronic idea and ideology. Inclusive of every infiltrator and invader that advocates torching the founding principles of the country. I’m so thankful she is sitting in the cesspool of the country and her inclusive student body and faculty will ensure her tenure is guaranteed regardless of what a shitstain Columbia has become. Mail the donors wise up and run her dumb ass out of the country
I am sure that the fact that she is Muslim had nothing to do with her deliberately allowing the Columbia campus to be overrun by Hamas supporters, and the chaos that ensued. The Jews on Colombia's board, and other donors, are simply and blindly suicidal.
Not blind - they supported it - but it was supposed to be targeted against the white patriarchy. In their shortsightedness, they didn’t anticipate that according to their own oppressor/oppressed dialectic, they themselves (Jews) could be classified as oppressors. They’ve lost control of their Frankenstein and now are engaging in damage control to try rein it in.
Shafik is a reflection of demorat elitist values. She is a globalist that when she has to govern locally, she is a zero ie totally inept. She should be fired immediately and the whole Columbia governance needs to be replaced!
There is an easy, simplistic way to solve higher education problems in America - take away every single government penny out of them, including student loans.
Without the money/fuel, there is no way commissars like this ugly and wretched woman can get paid a million dollars. No government money = no DEI. Tuition expenses would tumble and market forces will dictate how much a higher education is worth.
I know, just a dream... it is the only thing no one can take away from us, the proletariat.
38% of the money that runs the Ivy League where most of this nonsense comes from, is donated by wealthy billionaire alumni donors as tax donations. Those are the people you have to turn.
Amazing how the language used to describe her personal successes echoes the language she uses to describe her complete failure in handling the pro-Hamas student encampment and associated mayhem. I have seen this a lot in our own government—people who were present during crises act and speak as though that is some kind of accomplishment, even if it went poorly.
It is like Tojo, if he were so appointed, being lauded for “managing unprecedented domestic and foreign polycrises from 1941-44 through his constant and focused leadership role in the imperial government.”
complete lack of accountability spreads from the top down
People are starting to turn away from these horrible institutions and if you combine that with the fact that the next generation of students won't 'happen' because youth don't want to start families, these places will be in real trouble. Profile Smith College...they had quite the fall from grace ala a Jussie Smollett incident and a firing of an alum who refused to make everything about race. An Ivy-adjacent but once a proud place of nurturing young women who wanted their voices to matter. Thanks again, Yuri, for your sardonic viewpoint of these places that no longer deserve our respect.
Nah. As long as the Ivy's are a sure ticket to the 'elite' jobs and grad schools, people will go. Greed is more important than integrity or liberty or even our nation to most Americans at this point. By stripping us of our culture and self-respect, all most Americans have left is materialism. So they will keep going as long as it 'pays'.
Can we assume they are all vaxx damaged?
No, because they all probably didn't get "vaxxed" or got a shot of saline. The "vaxx" is for the sheep, not the elites.
As I said back in December, what needs to be done with higher education is boycott and defund; restore and reinvent.
https://markmarshall.substack.com/p/mamas-dont-let-your-babies-go-to
The problem with most high achieving women is so many of them lack leadership skills. They don’t have charisma or authority that emanates from them and hence cannot inspire followers other than their identity groups. Everyone knows most are in these positions of power because powerful men put them there. No one has respect for unearned privilege. This big push for inclusion has resulted in a crisis of mediocrity in every institution in our nation. Consequences happen. Of course you can’t say these things to most women because emotional. There are many exceptions: Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II, Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar) to name some more contemporary examples.
Yeah. A certain type of woman wants to be obeyed because she's a woman. And she will leverage whatever male constructed systems to get that obedience. Just wait until one of these women is a US President. Bet on World War 3 at that point.
I love your writing. And biting sarcasm. The thing is, I know this kind of person and their cohort very well, I was once a part of it, yet I also know the blue collar community (and even the unskilled labor community) and everything in between.
I'd say for the record, that today, the Ivy League student protestors are the ACTUAL pool of unskilled labor, but not according to traditional labor economists. He.
I thought your comment about 'bureaucrats....pat(ting) each other on the back all day' was insightful, I wouldn't say its bureaucrats per se, but it is absolutely true that the academic/think tank/NGO/intellectual/media bien-pensant cohort absolutely engages in rituals of self-admiration and self-congratulation on a routine basis. This lady is absolutely part of that.
This cohort in question has, of course, always existed, and will always exist, but post WW2 the heads of academic institutions (and most businesses) were war veterans from the officer class, and in most cases had real experience in pressure under fire and dealing with common people, so they were well prepared to deal with social unrest and social friction. Today's cohort is entirely removed from dealing with Blue Collars and messy real life, so poor decisions, decision made abstracted from reality, are increasingly being made in all sectors.
I'd love to see the class all these pseudointellectual leaders take to learn their hand gestures. Mountains and mountains of bullshit.
I wrote to Minouche Shafik directly and also several times to alumni relations. I got one answer. It was the most generic, uninspired word salad, probably vetted by some lawyers. Did I potentially miss other replies? No, because the university was silent since October.
It's incredible and I cannot fathom the depth of failure. The school didn't make any effort to at least keep alumni posted on what's going on, and what the plan for a resolution is. Maybe 2 or 3 messages that some policy has been updated.
I can't express how disappointed I am. I've always wanted to send my kids there as well, but it's not going to happen, no way.
Great analysis of how this system works and I’m so glad I dropped out of college when I did decades ago not knowing what a commie Petri dish it is. It’s unbelievable how interlocked these people are to the globalists and how they happen to find their way into positions like this. Knowing this it wouldn’t surprise me in the least that there are “poets” grown in these universities who are carrying on these ideologies in their work.