The moment of choosing a minister usually defines the fate of a government
For any manager, hiring is one of the biggest challenges of the position. If you make a mistake, the loss to the company of having to fire people after a whole process is huge. No wonder there are numerous books for beginners and experienced managers with tips and instructions on how to hire. Government is no different. the president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the 27 governors who will take office on day one will be evaluated by the teams they assemble. If a minister does not perform his role well, the responsibility rests with the appointee and not with the appointee.
A manager who hires the wrong person hurts the company. In the book How Google Works, executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg describe the difficult task of hiring and suggest that it’s better to leave the vacancy open than to speed up the process. One of the techniques they share is for the manager to think about whether he would spend endless hours stuck in an airport during a blizzard in the company of the candidate. If the answer is yes, don’t think twice. If not, forget it. Look for someone else and delete what is not interesting.
Dilma Rousseff she began to lose the stamp of “efficient manager” given to her by Lula for her mistakes in this process. So many ministers were sacked in the first year that the government’s ingenious marketers created the figure of “cleaning” to try to take responsibility for bad choices off Dilma’s knees. THE BBC he did the math. From 2011 to 2016 he changed minister 86 times. He imagines in a private company that an executive changes every 22 days. Every minister who enters starts all over again.
In politics the choice depends on more variants than in a private company. But the decision, however guided by the agreements in exchange for votes in Congress, rests with the president. He is the one who signs the nomination. And it is he who should be charged for what he signs. Therefore, haste is what should be charged least in this process. Lula promises to conclude the appointment of the first echelon of her government this Thursday. In 20 days you announced 37 ministers.
In the 2018 election, Bolsonaro said he would form a government in which Brazilians would know the names of their ministers by heart. Though he appointed far fewer ministers, just 23, he finished his term forgetting what they were called in embarrassing lives and without even sending most of them.
*Andreza Matais heads the Estadão branch in Brasilia
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
