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** UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter did well in the Navy and as governor of Georgia, but as president his approach faltered. He had a management strategy known as "spokes of the wheel", where he was the central hub and everyone else in the White House answered to him. However, this meant he would be handling ''all'' their responsibilities, rather than appointing capable leaders in those departments to do that work for him. Carter's governance also alienated Congressional Democrats, who were frustrated by how he micromanaged their procedures and ignored their advice and in favor of his own comparatively less effective approach. After he left the White House, he ended up having a successful career as a humanitarian and liberal activist, enough that historian Nigel Hamilton, who was critical of his presidency, said his post-presidential work made Carter "the American Gandhi".
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** UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter did well in the Navy and as governor of Georgia, but as president his approach faltered. He had a management strategy known as "spokes of the wheel", where he was the central hub and everyone else in the White House answered to him. However, this meant he would be handling ''all'' their responsibilities, rather than appointing capable leaders in those departments to do that work for him. Carter's governance also alienated Congressional Democrats, who were frustrated by how he micromanaged their procedures and ignored their advice and in favor of his own comparatively less effective approach. After he left the White House, he ended up having a successful career as a humanitarian and liberal activist, enough that historian Nigel Hamilton, who was critical of his presidency, said his post-presidential work made Carter "the American Gandhi".
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** UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter did well in the Navy and as governor of Georgia, but as president his approach faltered. He had a management strategy known as "spokes of the wheel", where he was the central hub and everyone else in the White House answered to him. However, this meant he would be handling ''all'' their responsibilities, rather than appointing capable leaders in those departments to do that work for him. This governance style also alienated his fellow Democrats in Congress, who complained that Carter brushed aside their proposals in favor of his own comparatively less effective ideas. After he left the White House, he ended up having a successful career as a diplomat and liberal activist, enough that historian Nigel Hamilton, who was critical of his presidency, said his post-presidential work made Carter "the American Gandhi".
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** UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter did well in the Navy and as governor of Georgia, but as president his approach faltered. He had a management strategy known as "spokes of the wheel", where he was the central hub and everyone else in the White House answered to him. However, this meant he would be handling ''all'' their responsibilities, rather than appointing capable leaders in those departments to do that work for him. This Carter's governance style also alienated his fellow Democrats in Congress, Congressional Democrats, who complained that Carter brushed aside were frustrated by how he micromanaged their proposals procedures and ignored their advice and in favor of his own comparatively less effective ideas. approach. After he left the White House, he ended up having a successful career as a diplomat humanitarian and liberal activist, enough that historian Nigel Hamilton, who was critical of his presidency, said his post-presidential work made Carter "the American Gandhi".
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** Before the war General George [=McClellan=] had been an Army captain and then an instructor at the officer school at West Point, where he was known as a organizational and logistics expert. In the early days of the war, [=McClellan=] won several small victories, and because he was about the only Union general winning ''any'' victories at the time (at least in the Eastern theater of the war, which then as now tended to get much more attention), this immediately catapulted him to being a national hero. He was promoted and made a number of absolutely critical reforms, including strengthening the defenses of Washington D.C., reworking and massively improving the logistics of the Union Army, [[note]]half the country suddenly leaving and declaring themselves an enemy nation had wreaked havoc on the ability of the army to acquire and transport necessary supplies, but after [=McClellan's=] reforms the Union armies were almost never short on food, equipment, or ammunition, unlike the armies of the Confederacy, who desperately scrambled for all of those things and still often went hungry and were undersupplied[[/note]] and he was rightly praised as a master when it came to training armies for the Union. However, when he was made overall commander of all of the Union Armies (including the key Army of the Potomac) following the retirement of [[OldSoldier the elderly General Winfield Scott]], [=McClellan=] tried to be a fighting commander instead of "just" an [[ArmchairMilitary organizational and logistics expert]], and proved to be a hopeless incompetent so indecisive, cowardly, arrogant, and insubordinate to President UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln that his poor performance as a field commander has been blamed for prolonging the war. His dithering infamously squandered every advantage he was ever given, ''including times when the written plans of the enemy army fell into his hands''. After being all-but forced out of the role of high command, [=McClellan=] attempted to parlay his early military successes into a political career, as he ran against Lincoln in the 1864 election, and tried to spin his failures as being the result of the Lincoln administration's interference rather than his own fault. However the fact that better commanders than him were showing success undercut his argument, and combined with a program to allow the soldiers in the ranks to vote, Lincoln won a second term and it ended [=McClellan=]'s ambitions for higher office permanently. Ironically, if he'd stayed in Washington doing what he did best in organizing and training armies and let someone better suited to battlefield command handle matters on the battlefield, [=McClellan=] likely could have been given a superior rank to UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant, as perhaps Chief of Staff.
** This trope also applies to [=McClellan=]'s replacement as commander of the Army of the Potomac, Ambrose E Burnside. Burnside was a gifted corps commander, but he himself knew he wasn't suited to command the entire army. He only reluctantly agreed when told that his hated rival Joe Hooker would be put in command if he refused. So Burnside accepted and led the Union to arguably their most humiliating defeat in the entire war at Fredericksburg where he sent in his troops repeatedly at an elevated, fortified enemy. He soon got demoted again, where he had more success, capturing Knoxville and defeating James Longstreet in Tennessee.
** General John B. Hood of the Confederate States of America was an example on the other side. An excellent brigade and division commander, he was merely competent at the corps level and performed poorly while in command of an army. When he was put in command of the Army of the Tennessee opposing Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, he did so much damage to his own forces due to his preference for [[AttackAttackAttack offensive maneuvers]] that by the time he was compelled to abandon Atlanta and retreat about 30,000 men were left in his army, down from a height of about 65,000. In comparison, Sherman's forces at their peak numbered 112,000 and retained 81,000 by the end of the campaign. Crucially, the Union forces could be quickly replenished, while the Confederacy was facing a dire manpower shortage. His army was ultimately utterly annihilated by the Union General George Henry Thomas, his old teacher, knocking an entire region out of the Confederacy and the war.
** The aforementioned James Longstreet was considered by General Robert E Lee to be one of his most capable subordinates, even referring to him as "my old War Horse". Following the unfortunate death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet was called upon to take up a larger share of the responsibilities in the army, which Longstreet and Jackson had been splitting until this point. However Jackson and Longstreet were very different commanders, [[note]]Jackson had developed a reputation for pulling off audacious attacks against superior forces and still winning, something which meshed well with Lee's own bold and aggressive tendencies, while Longstreet was more methodical, cautious, and had a ''strong'' preference for setting up formidable defensive positions and using them to break an attacking enemy[[/note]] and as a result Longstreet, while capable, did not duplicate Jackson's gift for stunning success at a time when the Confederacy was desperately hoping for stunning success. Some historians (mostly the ones who refuse to find any fault with Lee or admit that Pickett's Charge was at ''best'' a reckless idea from the start), give Longstreet partial blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, where he disagreed with General Lee's plans for the battle. The previously mentioned historians argue that Longstreet was slower to act in this situation and less forceful than he normally would've been, and is partially at fault for the Confederate defeat in the largest land battle in the history of North America.
** This trope also applies to [=McClellan=]'s replacement as commander of the Army of the Potomac, Ambrose E Burnside. Burnside was a gifted corps commander, but he himself knew he wasn't suited to command the entire army. He only reluctantly agreed when told that his hated rival Joe Hooker would be put in command if he refused. So Burnside accepted and led the Union to arguably their most humiliating defeat in the entire war at Fredericksburg where he sent in his troops repeatedly at an elevated, fortified enemy. He soon got demoted again, where he had more success, capturing Knoxville and defeating James Longstreet in Tennessee.
** General John B. Hood of the Confederate States of America was an example on the other side. An excellent brigade and division commander, he was merely competent at the corps level and performed poorly while in command of an army. When he was put in command of the Army of the Tennessee opposing Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, he did so much damage to his own forces due to his preference for [[AttackAttackAttack offensive maneuvers]] that by the time he was compelled to abandon Atlanta and retreat about 30,000 men were left in his army, down from a height of about 65,000. In comparison, Sherman's forces at their peak numbered 112,000 and retained 81,000 by the end of the campaign. Crucially, the Union forces could be quickly replenished, while the Confederacy was facing a dire manpower shortage. His army was ultimately utterly annihilated by the Union General George Henry Thomas, his old teacher, knocking an entire region out of the Confederacy and the war.
** The aforementioned James Longstreet was considered by General Robert E Lee to be one of his most capable subordinates, even referring to him as "my old War Horse". Following the unfortunate death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet was called upon to take up a larger share of the responsibilities in the army, which Longstreet and Jackson had been splitting until this point. However Jackson and Longstreet were very different commanders, [[note]]Jackson had developed a reputation for pulling off audacious attacks against superior forces and still winning, something which meshed well with Lee's own bold and aggressive tendencies, while Longstreet was more methodical, cautious, and had a ''strong'' preference for setting up formidable defensive positions and using them to break an attacking enemy[[/note]] and as a result Longstreet, while capable, did not duplicate Jackson's gift for stunning success at a time when the Confederacy was desperately hoping for stunning success. Some historians (mostly the ones who refuse to find any fault with Lee or admit that Pickett's Charge was at ''best'' a reckless idea from the start), give Longstreet partial blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, where he disagreed with General Lee's plans for the battle. The previously mentioned historians argue that Longstreet was slower to act in this situation and less forceful than he normally would've been, and is partially at fault for the Confederate defeat in the largest land battle in the history of North America.
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** Before the war war, General George [=McClellan=] had been an Army captain and then an instructor at the officer school at West Point, where he was known as a an organizational and logistics expert. In the early days of the war, [=McClellan=] won several small victories, and because he was about the only Union general winning ''any'' victories at the time (at least in the Eastern theater of the war, which then as now tended to get much more attention), this immediately catapulted him to being a national hero. He was promoted and made a number of absolutely critical reforms, including strengthening the defenses of Washington D.C., reworking and massively improving the logistics of the Union Army, [[note]]half the country suddenly leaving and declaring themselves an enemy nation had wreaked havoc on the ability of the army to acquire and transport necessary supplies, but after [=McClellan's=] reforms the Union armies were almost never short on food, equipment, or ammunition, unlike the armies of the Confederacy, who desperately scrambled for all of those things and still often went hungry and were undersupplied[[/note]] and he was rightly praised as a master when it came to training armies for the Union. However, when he was made overall commander of all of the Union Armies (including the key Army of the Potomac) following the retirement of [[OldSoldier the elderly General Winfield Scott]], [=McClellan=] tried to be a fighting commander instead of "just" an [[ArmchairMilitary organizational and logistics expert]], and proved to be a hopeless incompetent so indecisive, cowardly, arrogant, and insubordinate to President UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln that his poor performance as a field commander has been blamed for prolonging the war. His dithering infamously squandered every advantage he was ever given, ''including times when the written plans of the enemy army fell into his hands''. After being all-but forced out of the role of high command, [=McClellan=] attempted to parlay his early military successes into a political career, as he ran against Lincoln in the 1864 election, and tried to spin his failures as being the result of the Lincoln administration's interference rather than his own fault. However However, the fact that better commanders than him were showing success under that same administration undercut his argument, and combined with a program to allow the soldiers in the ranks to vote, Lincoln won a second term and it ended term, ending [=McClellan=]'s ambitions for higher office permanently. Ironically, if he'd stayed in Washington doing what he did best in organizing and training armies and let someone better suited to battlefield command handle matters on the battlefield, [=McClellan=] likely could have been given a superior rank to UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant, as perhaps Chief of Staff.
** This trope also applies to [=McClellan=]'s replacement as commander of the Army of the Potomac, Ambrose E Burnside. Burnside was a gifted corps commander, but he himself knew he wasn't suited to command the entire army. He only reluctantly agreed when told that his hated rival Joe Hooker would be put in command if he refused. So Burnside accepted and led the Union to arguably their most humiliating defeat in the entire war atFredericksburg Fredericksburg, where he repeatedly sent in his troops repeatedly at against an elevated, fortified enemy. He soon got demoted again, where he had more success, capturing Knoxville and defeating James Longstreet in Tennessee.
** General John B. Hood of the Confederate States of America was an example on the other side. An excellent brigade and division commander, he was merely competent at the corps level and performed poorly while in command of an army. When he was put in command of the Army of the Tennessee opposing Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, he did so much damage to his own forces due to hispreference for [[AttackAttackAttack preference for offensive maneuvers]] that by the time he was compelled to abandon Atlanta and retreat retreat, about 30,000 men were left in his army, down from a height of more than twice that in about 65,000. In comparison, Sherman's forces at their peak numbered 112,000 and retained 81,000 by the end of the campaign. Crucially, the Union forces could be quickly replenished, while the Confederacy was facing a dire manpower shortage. His army was ultimately utterly annihilated by the Union General George Henry Thomas, his old teacher, knocking an entire region out of the Confederacy and the war.
** The aforementioned James Longstreet was considered by General Robert E Lee to be one of his most capable subordinates, even referring to him as "my old War Horse". Following the unfortunate death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet was called upon to take up a larger share of the responsibilities in the army, which Longstreet and Jackson had been splitting until this point. However Jackson and Longstreet were very differentcommanders, [[note]]Jackson commanders,[[note]]Jackson had developed a reputation for pulling off audacious attacks against superior forces and still winning, something which meshed well with Lee's own bold and aggressive tendencies, while Longstreet was more methodical, cautious, and had a ''strong'' preference for setting up formidable defensive positions and using them to break an attacking enemy[[/note]] and as a result Longstreet, while capable, did not duplicate Jackson's gift for stunning success at a time when the Confederacy was desperately hoping for stunning success. Some historians (mostly the ones who refuse to find any fault with Lee or admit that Pickett's Charge was at ''best'' a reckless idea from the start), give Longstreet partial blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, where he disagreed with General Lee's plans for the battle. The previously mentioned historians argue that Longstreet was slower to act in this situation and less forceful than he normally would've been, and is partially at fault for the Confederate defeat in the largest land battle in the history of North America.
** This trope also applies to [=McClellan=]'s replacement as commander of the Army of the Potomac, Ambrose E Burnside. Burnside was a gifted corps commander, but he himself knew he wasn't suited to command the entire army. He only reluctantly agreed when told that his hated rival Joe Hooker would be put in command if he refused. So Burnside accepted and led the Union to arguably their most humiliating defeat in the entire war at
** General John B. Hood of the Confederate States of America was an example on the other side. An excellent brigade and division commander, he was merely competent at the corps level and performed poorly while in command of an army. When he was put in command of the Army of the Tennessee opposing Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, he did so much damage to his own forces due to his
** The aforementioned James Longstreet was considered by General Robert E Lee to be one of his most capable subordinates, even referring to him as "my old War Horse". Following the unfortunate death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet was called upon to take up a larger share of the responsibilities in the army, which Longstreet and Jackson had been splitting until this point. However Jackson and Longstreet were very different
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* An instance of this was one of the (admittedly many) contributing factors behind the TroubledProduction and eventual scathing failure of ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark''. While producer David Garfinkle had previously had some degree of experience with producing prior, he'd primarily been the one handling the accounting and lawyer based elements of the business while his partner Tony Adams, who had originally been set to serve as the primary producer for the play while having Garfinkle around to 'learn the ropes' so as to eventually become a proper artistic producer in his own right, handled the artistic/creative side of producing. Unfortunately, after Adams suffered a stroke on the day that the contract papers for ''Music/BonoAndTheEdge'' were being signed and [[DiedDuringProduction died in the hospital a mere two days later]], Garfinkle was forced to take full producer responsibilities on the fly. Garfinkle, well aware of how inexperienced and in well over his head he was, ultimately chose to let director Creator/JulieTaymor handle all the creative decisions while he worried about the financing. Unfortunately, without a steady supervising figure to tell her 'no' when as much was required, her artistic side ultimately got out of control, contributing heavily to the show's ultimate spectacular failure.
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* An instance of this was one of the (admittedly many) contributing factors behind the TroubledProduction and eventual scathing failure of ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark''. While producer David Garfinkle had previously had some degree of experience with producing prior, he'd primarily been the one handling the accounting and lawyer based elements of the business while his partner Tony Adams, who had originally been set to serve as the primary producer for the play while having Garfinkle around to 'learn the ropes' so as to eventually become a proper artistic producer in his own right, handled the artistic/creative side of producing. Unfortunately, after Adams suffered a stroke on the day that the contract papers for ''Music/BonoAndTheEdge'' [[Music/{{U2}} Bono and The Edge]] were being signed and [[DiedDuringProduction died in the hospital a mere two days later]], Garfinkle was forced to take full producer responsibilities on the fly. Garfinkle, well aware of how inexperienced and in well over his head he was, ultimately chose to let director Creator/JulieTaymor handle all the creative decisions while he worried about the financing. Unfortunately, without a steady supervising figure to tell her 'no' when as much was required, her artistic side ultimately got out of control, contributing heavily to the show's ultimate spectacular failure.
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* General John C. "J.C." Meyer was a [[AcePilot top-scoring fighter ace]] and a superb squadron leader in WWII and Korea, credited with 26 air-to-air victories and heroism for his actions over "Y-29" airfield. As the Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Air Command during the Vietnam War however, he gained a reputation as a micromanager who failed to understand the severity of North Vietnam's SAM missile threat against B-52 bombers, costing the Air Force valuable planes and pilots during Operation Linebacker II.
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* General John C. Charles "J.C." Meyer was a [[AcePilot top-scoring fighter ace]] and a superb squadron leader in WWII and Korea, credited with 26 air-to-air victories and heroism for his actions over "Y-29" airfield.airfield Y-29 in Belgium. As the Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Air Command during the Vietnam War however, he gained a reputation as a micromanager who failed to understand the severity of North Vietnam's SAM missile threat against B-52 bombers, costing the Air Force valuable planes and pilots during Operation Linebacker II.
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* Paul Pressler was decently skilled as the head of The Disney Store in the late '80s and early '90s, managing to first allow it to reach major prominence in that time through a deal he made with Mattel that allowed for provision of toys that would allow Disney the ability to provide serious competition against the offerings of Playskool and Fisher Price and subsequently bring together the necessary talent required to help design a brand new prototype version of Disney Store that was successfully opened in the 3rd business quarter of 1994 that involved clever utilizing of the 'land' concept from the Disney theme parks that helped make the shops more entertaining for buyers and other visitors through 'utilizing more storytelling'. His success in these ventures was enough to convince his superiors in the Disney company to promote him as the new head of Disneyland just in time for him to be in the position to oversee a radical new development the park was set to undergo in an effort to combat decreasing guest and customer numbers as well as reduce costs. Unfortunately, the great skill that he'd shown in handling The Disney Store [[CripplingOverspecialization proved a poor fit for what would be required to be a capable head of a theme park]], and he's largely held responsible for the severe AudienceAlienatingEra that Disneyland is agreed to have suffered from 1996 to 2003. In his efforts to save money, he chose to severely reduce attraction maintenance and operating hours, likewise reduce the number and variety of merchandise for sale at the park, and also straight up shutdown several smaller low-capacity attractions while also severely reducing the intended budget for a planned revamping of Tomorrowland. Things only got worse when he got subsequently promoted to serving as head of Disney's entire theme park division in 2000, as his efforts to further cut costs and avoid overspending over the course of the construction and eventual opening of Disney's California Adventure resulted in him placing a disproportionate amount of emphasis on shops and dining venues instead of on shows or proper attractions, which heavily contributed to the park's spectacular initial failure. Ultimately, it wouldn't be until Pressler eventually resigned from Disney in 2003 and took on a new position as head of The Gap that Disneyland was finally able to start repairing the damage that Pressler had inflicted upon it in his efforts at treating it like a shop instead of like a proper theme park.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer Marissa Mayer]] was highly regarded during her time at Website/{{Google}} as a product manager and eventually the vice president of search products and user experience, overseeing the design of Google's simple search homepage and most of their product suite. In 2012, she left Google to become the [=CEO=] of Platform/{{Yahoo}}, where it quickly became evident that her strengths as an engineer and product manager didn't translate to managing the finances and corporate operations of an entire company. Mayer instituted several unpopular management decisions like ending remote work, spent $1.1 billion acquiring Website/{{Tumblr}} (which was sold off six years later for [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/13/tumblr-once-sold-billion-owner-wordpress-just-bought-site-fraction-that/ only $3 million]], while [[https://deadline.com/2023/05/former-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-regrets-buying-tumblr-instead-netflix-hulu-would-have-been-a-better-acquisition-1235358501/ passing]] on other possible acquisitions like Creator/{{Hulu}} and Creator/{{Netflix}}), and Yahoo's core business continued to decline under her leadership. By the time she left the company in 2017 after it was acquired by Verizon, a survey had recently ranked her as [[https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/why-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-the-least-likable-ceo-in-tech.html the least liked]] [=CEO=] in tech. In her defense, Yahoo had been in a downward spiral for years at that point and turning around the company may have been an [[MisBlamed impossible task for anyone]].
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer Marissa Mayer]] was highly regarded during her time at Website/{{Google}} as a product manager and eventually the vice president of search products and user experience, overseeing the design of Google's simple search homepage and most of their product suite. In 2012, she left Google to become the [=CEO=] of Platform/{{Yahoo}}, where it quickly became evident that her strengths as an engineer and product manager didn't translate to managing the finances and corporate operations of an entire company. Mayer instituted several unpopular management decisions like ending remote work, spent $1.1 billion acquiring Website/{{Tumblr}} (which was sold off six years later for [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/13/tumblr-once-sold-billion-owner-wordpress-just-bought-site-fraction-that/ only $3 million]], while [[https://deadline.com/2023/05/former-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-regrets-buying-tumblr-instead-netflix-hulu-would-have-been-a-better-acquisition-1235358501/ passing]] on other possible acquisitions like Creator/{{Hulu}} and Creator/{{Netflix}}), and Yahoo's core business continued to decline under her leadership. By the time she left the company in 2017 after it was acquired by Verizon, a survey had recently ranked her as [[https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/why-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-the-least-likable-ceo-in-tech.html the least liked]] [=CEO=] in tech. In her defense, Yahoo had been in a downward spiral for years at that point and turning around the company may have been an [[MisBlamed impossible task for anyone]].
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* Paul Pressler was decently skilled as the head of The Disney Store in the late '80s and early '90s, managing to first allow '90s - he allowed it to reach major prominence in that time the first place through a deal he made with Mattel that allowed for provision of Mattel, providing toys that would allow let Disney the ability to provide offer serious competition against the offerings of Playskool and Fisher Price Price, and subsequently bring together the necessary talent required to help design then built on that with a brand new prototype version of the Disney Store that was successfully opened in the 3rd business quarter of 1994 that involved clever utilizing of where he borrowed the 'land' concept from the Disney Disney's theme parks that helped make parks, making the shops store itself more entertaining for buyers and other visitors through 'utilizing more storytelling'. to visit in the first place. His success in these ventures was enough to convince his superiors in the Disney company to promote him as the new head of Disneyland Disneyland, just in time for him to be in the position to oversee a radical new development the park was set to undergo in an effort to combat decreasing guest and customer numbers as well as reduce costs. Unfortunately, the great skill that he'd shown in handling The Disney Store [[CripplingOverspecialization proved a poor fit for what would be required to be a capable head of a theme park]], and he's largely held responsible for the severe AudienceAlienatingEra that Disneyland is agreed to have suffered from 1996 to 2003. In his efforts to save money, he chose to severely reduce attraction maintenance and hours, operating hours, likewise reduce as well as the number and variety of merchandise for sale at the park, and also straight up shutdown shut down several smaller low-capacity attractions while also severely reducing the intended budget for a planned revamping of Tomorrowland. Things only got worse when he got subsequently promoted to serving as head of Disney's entire theme park division in 2000, as his efforts to further cut costs and avoid overspending over the course of the construction and eventual opening of Disney's California Adventure resulted in him placing a disproportionate amount of emphasis on shops and dining venues instead of on shows or proper attractions, which heavily contributed to the park's spectacular initial failure. Ultimately, it wouldn't be until Pressler eventually resigned from Disney in 2003 and took on a new position as head of The Gap that Disneyland was finally able to start repairing the damage that Pressler had inflicted upon it in his efforts at by treating it like a shop instead of like a proper theme park.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer Marissa Mayer]] was highly regarded during her time at Website/{{Google}} as a product manager and eventually the vice president of search products and user experience, overseeing the design of Google's simple search homepage and most of their product suite. In 2012, she left Google to become the[=CEO=] CEO of Platform/{{Yahoo}}, where it quickly became evident that her strengths as an engineer and product manager didn't translate to managing the finances and corporate operations of an entire company. Mayer instituted several unpopular management decisions like ending remote work, spent $1.1 billion acquiring Website/{{Tumblr}} (which was sold off six years later for [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/13/tumblr-once-sold-billion-owner-wordpress-just-bought-site-fraction-that/ only $3 million]], while [[https://deadline.com/2023/05/former-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-regrets-buying-tumblr-instead-netflix-hulu-would-have-been-a-better-acquisition-1235358501/ passing]] on other possible acquisitions like Creator/{{Hulu}} and Creator/{{Netflix}}), and Yahoo's core business continued to decline under her leadership. By the time she left the company in 2017 after it was acquired by Verizon, a survey had recently ranked her as [[https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/why-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-the-least-likable-ceo-in-tech.html the least liked]] [=CEO=] liked CEO in tech. tech]]. In her defense, though her decisions as its CEO certainly didn't help, Yahoo had already been in a downward spiral for years at that point and turning around the company may have been an [[MisBlamed impossible task for anyone]].
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer Marissa Mayer]] was highly regarded during her time at Website/{{Google}} as a product manager and eventually the vice president of search products and user experience, overseeing the design of Google's simple search homepage and most of their product suite. In 2012, she left Google to become the
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* The ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster Costa Concordia disaster]]'' of January 13th, 2012--in which the 290 meter-long cruise ship struck an underwater rock formation, capsized, and partially sank--happened in part because the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, was promoted to that position almost directly from a career path with Costa that had been otherwise almost entirely focused on security work (he had been a chief security officer before the horizontal promotion to captain, with only a little bit of experience as a navigational officer before then), which left him with almost none of the skills or competence needed to adequately command a ship. Indeed, according to some reports, the ''Concordia'' was simply the last and most unfortunate of ''three'' cruise ships under his command to be damaged during a regular cruise because he had little idea what he was doing, to say nothing of [[DisasterDominoes the several other poor decisions]] that made the trip a disaster waiting to happen (chief among them his choice, among a crew of people who were expected to speak English and/or Italian, to pick an untrained Indonesian helmsman who [[PoorCommunicationKills barely spoke either]] and misinterpreted steering orders on two key occasions which actually caused the crash). Much of his conduct during the disaster also proved that he didn't have the character required of a captain either: he spent much of it in denial that anything had gone wrong; immediately headed for a lifeboat as soon as the rest of the crew decided to tell people to abandon ship (for which he changed out of his uniform so no one would recognize him); actively tried to avoid doing anything more helpful once his superiors caught wind of what was going on; and then finally [[MilesGloriosus told the news that he was the last off the ship]], which ultimately resulted in the rest of the bridge crew taking reduced sentences[[note]]save for the aforementioned helmsman, who [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere simply fled the country]] and hasn't been conclusively tracked down in a decade since[[/note]] in return for testifying against Schettino to increase ''his'' sentence.
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* The ''[[https://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster Costa Concordia disaster]]'' disaster]] of January 13th, 2012--in which the 290 meter-long 290-meter-long cruise ship struck an underwater rock formation, capsized, and partially sank--happened in part because the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, was promoted to that position almost directly from a career path with Costa that had been otherwise almost entirely focused on security work (he had been a chief security officer before the horizontal promotion to captain, with only a little bit of experience as a navigational officer before then), which left him with almost none of the skills or competence needed to adequately command a ship. Indeed, according to some reports, the ''Concordia'' was simply the last and most unfortunate of ''three'' cruise ships under his command to be damaged during a regular cruise because he had little idea what he was doing, to say nothing of [[DisasterDominoes the several other poor decisions]] that made the trip a disaster waiting to happen (chief among them his choice, among a crew of people who were expected to speak English and/or Italian, to pick an untrained Indonesian helmsman who [[PoorCommunicationKills barely spoke either]] and misinterpreted steering orders on two key occasions which actually caused the crash). Much of his conduct during the disaster also proved that he didn't have the character required of a captain either: he spent much of it in denial that anything had gone wrong; immediately headed for a lifeboat as soon as the rest of the crew decided to tell people to abandon ship (for which he changed out of his uniform so no one would recognize him); actively tried to avoid doing anything more helpful once his superiors caught wind of what was going on; and then finally [[MilesGloriosus told the news that he was the last off the ship]], which ultimately resulted in the rest of the bridge crew taking reduced sentences[[note]]save for the aforementioned helmsman, who [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere simply fled the country]] and hasn't been conclusively tracked down in a decade since[[/note]] in return for testifying against Schettino to increase ''his'' sentence.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer Marissa Mayer]] was highly regarded during her time at Website/{{Google}} as a product manager and eventually the vice president of search products and user experience, overseeing the design of Google's simple search homepage and most of their product suite. In 2012, she left Google to become the [=CEO=] of Website/{{Yahoo}}, where it quickly became evident that her strengths as an engineer and product manager didn't translate to managing the finances and corporate operations of an entire company. Mayer instituted several unpopular management decisions like ending remote work, spent $1.1 billion acquiring Website/{{Tumblr}} (which was sold off six years later for [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/13/tumblr-once-sold-billion-owner-wordpress-just-bought-site-fraction-that/ only $3 million]], while [[https://deadline.com/2023/05/former-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-regrets-buying-tumblr-instead-netflix-hulu-would-have-been-a-better-acquisition-1235358501/ passing]] on other possible acquisitions like Creator/{{Hulu}} and Creator/{{Netflix}}), and Yahoo's core business continued to decline under her leadership. By the time she left the company in 2017 after it was acquired by Verizon, a survey had recently ranked her as [[https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/why-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-the-least-likable-ceo-in-tech.html the least liked]] [=CEO=] in tech. In her defense, Yahoo had been in a downward spiral for years at that point and turning around the company may have been an [[MisBlamed impossible task for anyone]].
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer Marissa Mayer]] was highly regarded during her time at Website/{{Google}} as a product manager and eventually the vice president of search products and user experience, overseeing the design of Google's simple search homepage and most of their product suite. In 2012, she left Google to become the [=CEO=] of Website/{{Yahoo}}, Platform/{{Yahoo}}, where it quickly became evident that her strengths as an engineer and product manager didn't translate to managing the finances and corporate operations of an entire company. Mayer instituted several unpopular management decisions like ending remote work, spent $1.1 billion acquiring Website/{{Tumblr}} (which was sold off six years later for [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/13/tumblr-once-sold-billion-owner-wordpress-just-bought-site-fraction-that/ only $3 million]], while [[https://deadline.com/2023/05/former-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-regrets-buying-tumblr-instead-netflix-hulu-would-have-been-a-better-acquisition-1235358501/ passing]] on other possible acquisitions like Creator/{{Hulu}} and Creator/{{Netflix}}), and Yahoo's core business continued to decline under her leadership. By the time she left the company in 2017 after it was acquired by Verizon, a survey had recently ranked her as [[https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/why-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-the-least-likable-ceo-in-tech.html the least liked]] [=CEO=] in tech. In her defense, Yahoo had been in a downward spiral for years at that point and turning around the company may have been an [[MisBlamed impossible task for anyone]].
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** Before the war General George [=McClellan=] had been an Army captain before becoming an instructor at the officer school at West Point. He was known as a organizational and logistics expert. In the early days of the war, [=McClellan=] won several small victories, and because he was about the only Union general winning ''any'' victories at the time (at least in the Eastern theater of the war, which then as now tended to get much more attention), this immediately catapulted him to being a national hero. He was promoted and made a number of absolutely critical reforms, including strengthening the defenses of Washington D.C., reworking and massively improving the logistics of the Union Army, [[note]]half the country suddenly leaving and declaring themselves an enemy nation had wreaked havoc on the ability of the army to acquire and transport necessary supplies, but after [=McClellan's=] reforms the Union armies were almost never short on food, equipment, or ammunition, unlike the armies of the Confederacy, who desperately scrambled for all of those things and still often went hungry and were undersupplied[[/note]] and he was rightly praised as a master when it came to training armies for the Union. However, when he was made overall commander of all of the Union Armies (including the key Army of the Potomac) following the retirement of [[OldSoldier the elderly General Winfield Scott]], [=McClellan=] tried to be a fighting commander instead of "just" an [[ArmchairMilitary organizational and logistics expert]], and proved to be a hopeless incompetent so indecisive, cowardly, arrogant, and insubordinate to President UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln that his poor performance as a field commander has been blamed for prolonging the war. His dithering infamously squandered every advantage he was ever given, ''including times when the written plans of the enemy army fell into his hands''. After being all-but forced out of the role of high command, [=McClellan=] attempted to parlay his early military successes into a political career, trying to spin his failures as the result of the Lincoln administration's interference rather than his own failure to lead and blaming abolitionists and other political radicals for starting the war as much as the actual rebels to the south. But after some early success, several dramatic Union victories by better commanders during an election year, combined with a program to allow the soldiers in the ranks to vote, saw Lincoln carry a second term and end [=McClellan=]'s ambitions for higher office permanently. Ironically, if he'd stayed in Washington doing what he did best, [=McClellan=] likely could have been given a superior rank to UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant, as perhaps Chief of Staff.
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** Before the war General George [=McClellan=] had been an Army captain before becoming and then an instructor at the officer school at West Point. He Point, where he was known as a organizational and logistics expert. In the early days of the war, [=McClellan=] won several small victories, and because he was about the only Union general winning ''any'' victories at the time (at least in the Eastern theater of the war, which then as now tended to get much more attention), this immediately catapulted him to being a national hero. He was promoted and made a number of absolutely critical reforms, including strengthening the defenses of Washington D.C., reworking and massively improving the logistics of the Union Army, [[note]]half the country suddenly leaving and declaring themselves an enemy nation had wreaked havoc on the ability of the army to acquire and transport necessary supplies, but after [=McClellan's=] reforms the Union armies were almost never short on food, equipment, or ammunition, unlike the armies of the Confederacy, who desperately scrambled for all of those things and still often went hungry and were undersupplied[[/note]] and he was rightly praised as a master when it came to training armies for the Union. However, when he was made overall commander of all of the Union Armies (including the key Army of the Potomac) following the retirement of [[OldSoldier the elderly General Winfield Scott]], [=McClellan=] tried to be a fighting commander instead of "just" an [[ArmchairMilitary organizational and logistics expert]], and proved to be a hopeless incompetent so indecisive, cowardly, arrogant, and insubordinate to President UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln that his poor performance as a field commander has been blamed for prolonging the war. His dithering infamously squandered every advantage he was ever given, ''including times when the written plans of the enemy army fell into his hands''. After being all-but forced out of the role of high command, [=McClellan=] attempted to parlay his early military successes into a political career, trying as he ran against Lincoln in the 1864 election, and tried to spin his failures as being the result of the Lincoln administration's interference rather than his own failure to lead and blaming abolitionists and other political radicals for starting fault. However the war as much as the actual rebels to the south. But after some early success, several dramatic Union victories by fact that better commanders during an election year, than him were showing success undercut his argument, and combined with a program to allow the soldiers in the ranks to vote, saw Lincoln carry won a second term and end it ended [=McClellan=]'s ambitions for higher office permanently. Ironically, if he'd stayed in Washington doing what he did best, best in organizing and training armies and let someone better suited to battlefield command handle matters on the battlefield, [=McClellan=] likely could have been given a superior rank to UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant, as perhaps Chief of Staff.
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* Fellow ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' alum Creator/DanaCarvey struggled with this his entire professional career. An extremely talented impressionist and physical comedian and a creative fountain of ideas, he produced all kinds of great sketches that killed on stage in front of live audiences, or when he collaborated with other great comedic minds like Creator/MikeMyers on comedies like ''Film/WaynesWorld''. Unfortunately, when given full creative freedom and allowed to chase his imagination's id, Carvey quickly proved too esoteric and weird to find success [[ProtectionFromEditors without a moderating influence to tell him "no" or a filter to help make his ideas more digestible to general audiences]], resulting in the failure of solo projects he helmed himself like ''Series/TheDanaCarveyShow'' or ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise''.
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* Fellow ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' alum Creator/DanaCarvey struggled with this his entire professional career. An extremely talented impressionist and physical comedian and a creative fountain of ideas, he produced all kinds of great sketches that killed on stage in front of live audiences, or when he collaborated with other great comedic minds like Creator/MikeMyers on comedies like ''Film/WaynesWorld''. Unfortunately, when given full creative freedom and allowed to chase his imagination's id, id to his heart's content, Carvey quickly proved too esoteric and weird to find success [[ProtectionFromEditors without a moderating influence to tell him "no" or a filter to help make his ideas more digestible to general audiences]], resulting in the failure of solo projects he helmed himself like ''Series/TheDanaCarveyShow'' or ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise''. ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise''.
* An instance of this was one of the (admittedly many) contributing factors behind the TroubledProduction and eventual scathing failure of ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark''. While producer David Garfinkle had previously had some degree of experience with producing prior, he'd primarily been the one handling the accounting and lawyer based elements of the business while his partner Tony Adams, who had originally been set to serve as the primary producer for the play while having Garfinkle around to 'learn the ropes' so as to eventually become a proper artistic producer in his own right, handled the artistic/creative side of producing. Unfortunately, after Adams suffered a stroke on the day that the contract papers for ''Music/BonoAndTheEdge'' were being signed and [[DiedDuringProduction died in the hospital a mere two days later]], Garfinkle was forced to take full producer responsibilities on the fly. Garfinkle, well aware of how inexperienced and in well over his head he was, ultimately chose to let director Creator/JulieTaymor handle all the creative decisions while he worried about the financing. Unfortunately, without a steady supervising figure to tell her 'no' when as much was required, her artistic side ultimately got out of control, contributing heavily to the show's ultimate spectacular failure.
* An instance of this was one of the (admittedly many) contributing factors behind the TroubledProduction and eventual scathing failure of ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark''. While producer David Garfinkle had previously had some degree of experience with producing prior, he'd primarily been the one handling the accounting and lawyer based elements of the business while his partner Tony Adams, who had originally been set to serve as the primary producer for the play while having Garfinkle around to 'learn the ropes' so as to eventually become a proper artistic producer in his own right, handled the artistic/creative side of producing. Unfortunately, after Adams suffered a stroke on the day that the contract papers for ''Music/BonoAndTheEdge'' were being signed and [[DiedDuringProduction died in the hospital a mere two days later]], Garfinkle was forced to take full producer responsibilities on the fly. Garfinkle, well aware of how inexperienced and in well over his head he was, ultimately chose to let director Creator/JulieTaymor handle all the creative decisions while he worried about the financing. Unfortunately, without a steady supervising figure to tell her 'no' when as much was required, her artistic side ultimately got out of control, contributing heavily to the show's ultimate spectacular failure.
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** Before the war General George [=McClellan=] had been an Army captain before becoming an instructor at the officer school at West Point. He was known as a logistics and organizational expert, and in the early days of the war, [=McClellan=] won several small victories, and because he was about the only Union general winning ''any'' victories at the time (at least in the Eastern theater of the war, which tends to get much more attention), this immediately catapulted him to being a national hero. He was promoted and made a number of absolutely critical reforms, including strengthening the defenses of Washington D.C., reworking and massively improving the logistics of the Union Army, [[note]]half the country suddenly leaving and declaring themselves an enemy nation had wreaked havoc on the ability of the army to acquire and transport necessary supplies, but after [=McClellan's=] reforms the Union armies were almost never short on food, equipment, or ammunition, unlike the armies of the Confederacy, who desperately scrambled for all of those things and still often went hungry and were undersupplied[[/note]] and he was rightly praised as a master when it came to training armies for the Union. However, when he was made overall commander of all of the Union Armies (including the key Army of the Potomac) following the retirement of [[OldSoldier the elderly General Winfield Scott]], [=McClellan=] tried to be a fighting commander instead of "just" an [[ArmchairMilitary organizational and logistics expert]], and proved to be a hopeless incompetent so indecisive, cowardly, arrogant, and insubordinate to President UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln that his poor performance as a field commander has been blamed for prolonging the war. He also infamously squandered every advantage he was ever given, ''including times when the written plans of the enemy army fell into his hands''. Ironically, if he'd stayed in Washington doing what he did best, [=McClellan=] likely could have been given a superior rank to UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant, as perhaps Chief of Staff.
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** Before the war General George [=McClellan=] had been an Army captain before becoming an instructor at the officer school at West Point. He was known as a logistics and organizational expert, and in logistics expert. In the early days of the war, [=McClellan=] won several small victories, and because he was about the only Union general winning ''any'' victories at the time (at least in the Eastern theater of the war, which tends then as now tended to get much more attention), this immediately catapulted him to being a national hero. He was promoted and made a number of absolutely critical reforms, including strengthening the defenses of Washington D.C., reworking and massively improving the logistics of the Union Army, [[note]]half the country suddenly leaving and declaring themselves an enemy nation had wreaked havoc on the ability of the army to acquire and transport necessary supplies, but after [=McClellan's=] reforms the Union armies were almost never short on food, equipment, or ammunition, unlike the armies of the Confederacy, who desperately scrambled for all of those things and still often went hungry and were undersupplied[[/note]] and he was rightly praised as a master when it came to training armies for the Union. However, when he was made overall commander of all of the Union Armies (including the key Army of the Potomac) following the retirement of [[OldSoldier the elderly General Winfield Scott]], [=McClellan=] tried to be a fighting commander instead of "just" an [[ArmchairMilitary organizational and logistics expert]], and proved to be a hopeless incompetent so indecisive, cowardly, arrogant, and insubordinate to President UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln that his poor performance as a field commander has been blamed for prolonging the war. He also His dithering infamously squandered every advantage he was ever given, ''including times when the written plans of the enemy army fell into his hands''.hands''. After being all-but forced out of the role of high command, [=McClellan=] attempted to parlay his early military successes into a political career, trying to spin his failures as the result of the Lincoln administration's interference rather than his own failure to lead and blaming abolitionists and other political radicals for starting the war as much as the actual rebels to the south. But after some early success, several dramatic Union victories by better commanders during an election year, combined with a program to allow the soldiers in the ranks to vote, saw Lincoln carry a second term and end [=McClellan=]'s ambitions for higher office permanently. Ironically, if he'd stayed in Washington doing what he did best, [=McClellan=] likely could have been given a superior rank to UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant, as perhaps Chief of Staff.
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* Former French Formula 1 driver and four times world champion Alain Prost decided to run his own team by purchasing Ligier (a mid-field French team with occasional podiums) at the end of the 1996 season, and renaming it Prost Grand Prix. The 1997 was a good season, possibly out of inertia from the well-planned project of Ligier and the already designed car, with several placements at points, two almost wins, and the 6th final position in the constructors championship, which could have been higher without some unreliability issues that prevented further results. The real start was with the 1998 season, with Alain Prost setting that the intention of his team was "to win the World Championship as quickly as possible" and saying that the former world champion Damon Hill had made a mistake in not signing for him ahead of the new season. The team was well-financed through a number of big sponsorship parties and was powered by the French engine manufacturer Peugeot, setting high expectations for the Prost GP team. However, the team struggled to competitiveness, ending with only 1 point at the rainy Belgian grand prix when only six drivers managed to finish. Lack of performance, unreliability, and mismanagement were constant. The 1999 season was a repetition of 1998, although a lucky second place at Nurburgring gave some breath. But the 2000 season saw the team failing to score a single point and losing many of its sponsorships and key technicians. At the end of the 2001 season, after struggling to even test new components, Prost GP bankrupted. Alain Prost later admitted that financial management was the biggest problem, with less employees than other teams but paying them much more for less duties. He also invested a lot of his sponsorship money in the construction of the new team headquarters. Coupled with that, there were high-profile slanging matches and infighting between Prost and key figures, including a fallout with the Diniz family (a major backing-sponsor through the driver Pedro Diniz) and a bust-up with Jean Alesi (a long decade veteran and former teammate of Alain Prost himself, who joined the team in 2001 to try to save its results, but leaving before the end of the season). Prost looked back at his adventure as a team manager with regrets: “Three months after I started the team, we had some very good results and we almost won a race. But to my family and close friends, I was saying: I’m dead. I knew from the beginning. [...] I know Formula 1 too well. I know the country too well. If I made one mistake, it was this. It would have been better not to have done it. I should not have made the decision to do it at the last minute. [...] Two days before I signed the contract I did not want to do it anymore. We had a plan with Peugeot and a contract for five years of free engines with lots of development. Then they came back two days before I signed it and it was only three years and I had to pay for the engine… In the end, I was happy to stop.”
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* Former French Formula 1 driver and four times world champion Alain Prost decided to run his own team by purchasing Ligier (a mid-field French team with occasional podiums) at the end of the 1996 season, and renaming it Prost Grand Prix. The 1997 was a good season, possibly out of inertia from but the well-planned project of Ligier car and the already designed car, with several placements at points, two almost wins, structure were still those of Ligier, and the 6th final position in the constructors championship, which could have been higher without some unreliability issues that prevented further results. The real start was with the 1998 season, with in 1998. Alain Prost setting set that the intention of his team was "to win the World Championship as quickly as possible" and saying that the former world champion Damon Hill had made a mistake in not signing for him ahead of the new season. him. The team was well-financed through a number of big sponsorship parties and was powered by the French engine manufacturer Peugeot, setting high expectations for the Prost GP team. expectations. However, in the following years the team struggled to competitiveness, ending with only 1 point at the rainy Belgian grand prix when only six drivers managed to finish. Lack afflicted by lack of performance, unreliability, and mismanagement were constant. mismanagement. The 1999 season was a repetition of 1998, although a lucky second place at Nurburgring gave some breath. But the 2000 season saw the team failing to score a single point and losing many of its sponsorships and key technicians. At the end of the 2001 season, after struggling to even test new components, Prost GP bankrupted. Alain Prost later admitted that financial management was the biggest problem, with less employees than other teams but paying them much more for less duties. He also invested a lot of his sponsorship money in the construction of the new team headquarters. Coupled with that, there were high-profile slanging matches and infighting between Prost and key figures, including a fallout with figures. Lastly, he couldn't stand the Diniz family (a major backing-sponsor through the driver Pedro Diniz) and a bust-up with Jean Alesi (a long decade veteran and former teammate of Alain Prost himself, who joined the team in 2001 to try to save its results, but leaving before the end of the season). Prost looked back at his adventure as a team manager with regrets: “Three months after I started the team, we had some very good results and we almost won a race. But to my family and close friends, I was saying: I’m dead. I knew pressure from the beginning. [...] I know Formula 1 too well. I know national press, nor the country too well. If I made one mistake, it was this. It would have been better not shark attitude required to have done it. I should not have made the decision to do it swim in F1 with verbal deals changing at the last minute. [...] Two days before I signed the contract I did not want moment of signing or people trying to do it anymore. We had a plan with Peugeot and a contract for five years of free engines with lots of development. Then they came back two days before I signed it and it was only three years and I had to pay for the engine… In the end, I was happy to stop.”
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* Former French Formula 1 driver and four times world champion Alain Prost decided to run his own team by purchasing Ligier (a mid-field French team with occasional podiums) at the end of the 1996 season, and renaming it Prost Grand Prix. The 1997 was a good season, possibly out of inertia from the well-planned project of Ligier and the already designed car, with several placements at points, two almost wins, and the 6th final position in the constructors championship, which could have been higher without some unreliability issues that prevented further results. The real start was with the 1998 season, with Alain Prost setting that the intention of his team was "to win the World Championship as quickly as possible" and saying that the former world champion Damon Hill had made a mistake in not signing for him ahead of the new season. The team was well-financed through a number of big sponsorship parties and was powered by the French engine manufacturer Peugeot, setting high expectations for the Prost GP team. However, the team struggled to competitiveness, ending with only 1 point at the rainy Belgian grand prix when only six drivers managed to finish. Lack of performance, unreliability, and mismanagement were constant. The 1999 season was a repetition of 1998, although a lucky second place at Nurburgring gave some breath. But the 2000 season saw the team failing to score a single point and losing many of its sponsorships and key technicians. At the end of the 2001 season, after struggling to even test new components, Prost GP bankrupted. Alain Prost later admitted that financial management was the biggest problem, with less employees than other teams but paying them much more for less duties. He also invested a lot of his sponsorship money in the construction of the new team headquarters. Coupled with that, there were high-profile slanging matches and infighting between Prost and key figures, including a fallout with the Diniz family (a major backing-sponsor through the driver Pedro Diniz) and a bust-up with Jean Alesi (a long decade veteran and former teammate of Alain Prost himself, who joined the team in 2001 to try to save its results, but leaving before the end of the season). Prost looked back at his adventure as a team manager with regrets: “Three months after I started the team, we had some very good results and we almost won a race. But to my family and close friends, I was saying: I’m dead. I knew from the beginning. [...] I know Formula 1 too well. I know the country too well. If I made one mistake, it was this. It would have been better not to have done it. I should not have made the decision to do it at the last minute. [...] Two days before I signed the contract I did not want to do it anymore. We had a plan with Peugeot and a contract for five years of free engines with lots of development. Then they came back two days before I signed it and it was only three years and I had to pay for the engine… In the end, I was happy to stop.”
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** In the early days of the war, General George [=McClellan=] won several small victories, and because he was about the only Union general winning ''any'' victories at the time (at least in the Eastern theater of the war, which tends to get much more attention), this immediately catapulted him to being a national hero. He was promoted and made a number of absolutely critical reforms, including improving the defenses of Washington D.C., reworking the logistics of the Union Army (half the country suddenly leaving and declaring themselves an enemy had wreaked havoc on the ability of the army to get and transport supplies), and he was rightly praised as a master of raising and training armies for the Union. However, upon being made overall commander of the Union army (including the key Army of the Potomac) he tried to be a fighting commander instead of "just" an organizational and logistics expert, and proved to be a hopeless incompetent so cowardly, arrogant, and insubordinate to President UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln that he has been blamed for prolonging the war. He also infamously squandered every advantage he was ever given, ''including times when the written plans of the enemy army fell into his hands''. Ironically, if he'd stayed in Washington doing what he did best, [=McClellan=] likely could have been given a superior rank to UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant, as perhaps Chief of Staff.
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** In Before the war General George [=McClellan=] had been an Army captain before becoming an instructor at the officer school at West Point. He was known as a logistics and organizational expert, and in the early days of the war, General George [=McClellan=] won several small victories, and because he was about the only Union general winning ''any'' victories at the time (at least in the Eastern theater of the war, which tends to get much more attention), this immediately catapulted him to being a national hero. He was promoted and made a number of absolutely critical reforms, including improving strengthening the defenses of Washington D.C., reworking and massively improving the logistics of the Union Army (half Army, [[note]]half the country suddenly leaving and declaring themselves an enemy nation had wreaked havoc on the ability of the army to get acquire and transport supplies), necessary supplies, but after [=McClellan's=] reforms the Union armies were almost never short on food, equipment, or ammunition, unlike the armies of the Confederacy, who desperately scrambled for all of those things and still often went hungry and were undersupplied[[/note]] and he was rightly praised as a master of raising and when it came to training armies for the Union. However, upon being when he was made overall commander of all of the Union army Armies (including the key Army of the Potomac) he following the retirement of [[OldSoldier the elderly General Winfield Scott]], [=McClellan=] tried to be a fighting commander instead of "just" an [[ArmchairMilitary organizational and logistics expert, expert]], and proved to be a hopeless incompetent so indecisive, cowardly, arrogant, and insubordinate to President UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln that he his poor performance as a field commander has been blamed for prolonging the war. He also infamously squandered every advantage he was ever given, ''including times when the written plans of the enemy army fell into his hands''. Ironically, if he'd stayed in Washington doing what he did best, [=McClellan=] likely could have been given a superior rank to UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant, as perhaps Chief of Staff.
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** The aforementioned James Longstreet was considered by General Robert E Lee to be one of his most capable subordinates, even referring to him as "my old War Horse". Following the unfortunate death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet was called upon to take up a larger share of the responsibilities in the army. However Jackson and Longstreet were very different commanders (Jackson had developed a reputation for pulling off audacious attacks against superior forces and still winning, something which meshed well with Lee's own bold and aggressive tendencies, while Longstreet was more methodical, cautious, and had a ''strong'' preference for setting up formidable defensive positions and using them to break an attacking enemy), and as a result Longstreet, while capable, did not duplicate Jackson's gift for stunning success. Some historians (mostly the ones who refuse to find any fault with Lee or admit that Pickett's Charge was a foolish idea from the start), give Longstreet partial blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, where he disagreed with General Lee's plans for the battle and those historians argue that him not being as quick to action in this situation as he otherwise would've been is the reason for Confederate defeat in the largest land battle in the history of North America.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the same level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough for the Northern States to grow tired of the war and accept Southern independence.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the same level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough for the Northern States to grow tired of the war and accept Southern independence.
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** The aforementioned James Longstreet was considered by General Robert E Lee to be one of his most capable subordinates, even referring to him as "my old War Horse". Following the unfortunate death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet was called upon to take up a larger share of the responsibilities in the army. army, which Longstreet and Jackson had been splitting until this point. However Jackson and Longstreet were very different commanders (Jackson commanders, [[note]]Jackson had developed a reputation for pulling off audacious attacks against superior forces and still winning, something which meshed well with Lee's own bold and aggressive tendencies, while Longstreet was more methodical, cautious, and had a ''strong'' preference for setting up formidable defensive positions and using them to break an attacking enemy), enemy[[/note]] and as a result Longstreet, while capable, did not duplicate Jackson's gift for stunning success at a time when the Confederacy was desperately hoping for stunning success. Some historians (mostly the ones who refuse to find any fault with Lee or admit that Pickett's Charge was at ''best'' a foolish reckless idea from the start), give Longstreet partial blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, where he disagreed with General Lee's plans for the battle and those battle. The previously mentioned historians argue that him not being as quick Longstreet was slower to action act in this situation as and less forceful than he otherwise normally would've been been, and is partially at fault for the reason for Confederate defeat in the largest land battle in the history of North America.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became after Gettysburg than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the same level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough for the Northern States to grow tired of the war and accept Southern independence.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became after Gettysburg than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the same level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough for the Northern States to grow tired of the war and accept Southern independence.
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* Several notable examples from the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, where the high attrition rate among commanders and officers often led to soldiers being promoted quickly up the ranks to replace them.
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* Several notable examples from the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, where the high attrition rate among commanders and officers often led to soldiers being promoted quickly up the ranks to replace them.them:
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** The aforementioned James Longstreet was considered by General Robert E Lee to be one of his most capable subordinates, even referring to him as "my old War Horse". Following the unfortunate death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet was called upon to take up a larger share of the responsibilities in the army. However Jackson and Longstreet were very different commanders (Jackson had developed a reputation for pulling off audacious attacks against superior forces and still winning, something which meshed well with Lee's own bold and aggressive tendencies, while Longstreet was more methodical, cautious, and had a ''strong'' preference for setting up formidable defensive positions and using them to break an attacking enemy), and as a result Longstreet, while capable, did not duplicate Jackson's gift for stunning success. Some historians (mostly the ones who refuse to find any fault with Lee or admit that Pickett's Charge was a foolish idea from the start), give Longstreet partial blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, where he disagreed with General Lee's plans for the battle and those historians argue that his as quick to action as he otherwise would've been is the reason for Confederate defeat in the largest land battle in the history of North America.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the same level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough that the Northern States grew tired of the war and accepted Southern independence.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the same level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough that the Northern States grew tired of the war and accepted Southern independence.
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** The aforementioned James Longstreet was considered by General Robert E Lee to be one of his most capable subordinates, even referring to him as "my old War Horse". Following the unfortunate death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet was called upon to take up a larger share of the responsibilities in the army. However Jackson and Longstreet were very different commanders (Jackson had developed a reputation for pulling off audacious attacks against superior forces and still winning, something which meshed well with Lee's own bold and aggressive tendencies, while Longstreet was more methodical, cautious, and had a ''strong'' preference for setting up formidable defensive positions and using them to break an attacking enemy), and as a result Longstreet, while capable, did not duplicate Jackson's gift for stunning success. Some historians (mostly the ones who refuse to find any fault with Lee or admit that Pickett's Charge was a foolish idea from the start), give Longstreet partial blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, where he disagreed with General Lee's plans for the battle and those historians argue that his him not being as quick to action in this situation as he otherwise would've been is the reason for Confederate defeat in the largest land battle in the history of North America.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the same level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enoughthat for the Northern States grew to grow tired of the war and accepted accept Southern independence.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the same level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough
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* Dilma Rousseff was a great politician behind the scenes, and once in the federal government, was a Minister of Energy who helped a country that right was on the brink of an energy crisis, and a Chief of Staff who kept a faultering government afloat while starting a high-spending program for infrastructure. This caused her part to pick her as the one who would keep them in the presidency, and so she became President of Brazil. There her flaws were made clear, as a public person with an infamous tendency to derail her speech into MeaninglessMeaningfulWords, and a stateswoman who saw many of her ministries be hit by corruption scandals and a more hands-on developmentalist plan leading to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Brazilian_economic_crisis an economic crisis.]] Rousseff barely managed to get a second mandate, which started with pulling unpopular economic decisions that were held off until after the re-election was guaranteed, followed by the then president of the Chamber of Deputies reacted to a process that was threatening to remove him by [[TakingYouWithMe opening an impeachment trial on Rousseff, ensuring that by the following year, both were out of the office]].
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* Dilma Rousseff was a great politician behind the scenes, and once in the federal government, was a Minister of Energy who helped a country that right was on the brink of an energy crisis, and a Chief of Staff who kept a faultering government afloat while starting a high-spending program for infrastructure. This caused her part party to pick her as the one who would keep them in the presidency, and so she became President of Brazil. There her flaws were made clear, as a public person with an infamous tendency to derail her speech into MeaninglessMeaningfulWords, and a stateswoman who saw many of her ministries be hit by corruption scandals and a more hands-on developmentalist plan leading to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Brazilian_economic_crisis an economic crisis.]] Rousseff barely managed to get a second mandate, which started with pulling unpopular economic decisions that were held off until after the re-election was guaranteed, followed by the then president of the Chamber of Deputies reacted to a process that was threatening to remove him by [[TakingYouWithMe opening an impeachment trial on Rousseff, ensuring that by the following year, both were out of the office]].
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** The aforementioned James Longstreet was considered by General Robert E Lee to be one of his most capable subordinates, even referring to him as "my old War Horse". Following the unfortunate death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet was called upon to take up a larger share of the responsibilities in the army. However Jackson and Longstreet were very different commanders (Jackson had developed a reputation for pulling off audacious attacks against superior forces and still winning, something which meshed well with Lee's own bold and aggressive tendencies, while Longstreet was more methodical, cautious, and had a ''strong'' preference for setting up formidable defensive positions and using them to break an attacking enemy), and as a result Longstreet, while capable, did not duplicate Jackson's gift for stunning success. Some historians (mostly the ones who refuse to find any fault with Lee or admit that Pickett's Charge was a foolish idea from the start), give Longstreet partial blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, where he disagreed with General Lee's plans for the battle and those historians argue that he wasn't as quick to action as he otherwise would've been.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough that the Northern States grew tired of the war and accepted southern independence.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough that the Northern States grew tired of the war and accepted southern independence.
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** The aforementioned James Longstreet was considered by General Robert E Lee to be one of his most capable subordinates, even referring to him as "my old War Horse". Following the unfortunate death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet was called upon to take up a larger share of the responsibilities in the army. However Jackson and Longstreet were very different commanders (Jackson had developed a reputation for pulling off audacious attacks against superior forces and still winning, something which meshed well with Lee's own bold and aggressive tendencies, while Longstreet was more methodical, cautious, and had a ''strong'' preference for setting up formidable defensive positions and using them to break an attacking enemy), and as a result Longstreet, while capable, did not duplicate Jackson's gift for stunning success. Some historians (mostly the ones who refuse to find any fault with Lee or admit that Pickett's Charge was a foolish idea from the start), give Longstreet partial blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, where he disagreed with General Lee's plans for the battle and those historians argue that he wasn't his as quick to action as he otherwise would've been.
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** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the same level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough that the Northern States grew tired of the war and acceptedsouthern Southern independence.
** Ironically, "Stonewall" Jackson's death before the tides of war ''really'' turned against the South probably prevented this from happening to him; Longstreet was better suited for the defensive grind the war became than Jackson, who was brilliant as an offensive general but didn't show the same level of ability in the few defensive actions he commanded. Jackson's daring, aggressive, and casualty-heavy methods would have been a poor fit for a time when the South was desperately short on manpower and their best hope was to try to draw the war out long enough that the Northern States grew tired of the war and accepted
