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I believe Mitt Romney would be the first former CEO of a major corporation to be president, if he was elected president.

Have you ever wondered what would happen to the United States if someone who graduated from Harvard in 5 years with a law degree, and an MBA, who graduated with honors, and then went on to be one of the most successful Turnaround Chief executive Officers in our country... if this person got elected president?

I wonder sometimes what would happen if Bill Gates or the Google guys got elected president? I wonder if they could set aside all of the political infighting and make things just run better, and smoother, and more efficiently. But I don't think Bill Gates is necessarily a managerial genius. I think he made good strategic movies, but I don't know if he is a managerial dynamo. I think the Google guys have some paradigm changing ideas, but I don't know if they are great managers either.

From reading Mitt Romney's book about the Olympics, and looking at his business record, I think he might be one of the country’s best managers. I think he has basically accomplished everything he can in Massachusetts, and they hate him so much because he won't play their game. I feel like one of the great minds of our time is being wasted, and I want him to start fixing things.

If you read "Turnaround" you can't help but think that Romney is just amazing at fixing things. But that is what you hear about everyone at Bain capital. They are a bunch of data nerds that love graphs, and statistics, and finding the real problems and fixing them.

So I wish that someone would start the Chief Executive Officers for Mitt website.

1. A manager should have a small elite group that will experiment in weird ways of doing things, trying to come up with something new.
2. If you have a problem with management, you shouldn't sit around and talk about the problem with co workers. You should try and fix the problem, or bring it up with those who can fix it: management.
3. "Water-cooler" talk is bad.
4. A good manager should not jokingly criticize those that work for him.
5. If managers followed a few simple rules, many organizations would run smoother. Maybe it doesn't have to be anything profound, but meetings would at least run better.
6. A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.