Recently, the secret service has been plagued with a scandal. Secret Service Officers were caught with prostitutes in Colombia the day before President Obama was to arrive there. This is obviously really bad press for the President during such a critical political time period. The way he handles it could really impact his efforts to be re-elected. But, this is not the main discussion of this post. What I really want to bring up is Leadership changes and question their effectiveness.
Watching the news these last couple days, I heard one of the anchors mention a possible leadership change at the top of the Secret Service to combat this scandal. In my opinion wouldn’t you want the person at the head to stay and remain accountable for this situation. Just because something goes wrong, doesn’t mean that the wrong people are leading. Quite frankly, during these situations is when a leader is proven. If things are always good, you can’t really determine if the current leader is good or if everything is just going well.
Replacing leadership during difficult situations also seems like an overreaction and a short term solution, which I cannot stand. So many decisions on leadership are made based on the present and never the future. In my opinion if we want to remain on top, we should always think long term and look at difficult situations as bumps in the road.
If you are not yet familiar with the Secret Service scandal, I have included a link to give you some insight on the situation.
