What a joke

• Strategic brilliance, with the ability to assess what the future holds,
• The capacity to make decisions, drive performance, build business and create partnerships,
• Significant leadership experience at the CEO level,
• Experience leading complex business transformation,
• blah, blah, blah..............

These are the requirements for the position of president and chief executive officer at Canada Post.  Really?  Who can predict what the future holds?  Right there you have a problem.  This was contained in a full-page ad in 'The Economist' this week.  Imagine what that would have cost?! 

All you need to run Canada Post is the ability to push back on the unions and deliver the ever-diminishing mail Canadians are sending these days.  Welcome to the world of social media.  Period, the end.  You don't have to be a brilliant statistician to deal with the likes of the late Joe Davidson and Jean-Claude Parrot.  Remember those two?  They singlehandedly ruined Canada Post, after which Davidson went back to Scotland with his big, fat pension and promptly died. 

B and I were thinking about who could run the Post Office and we came up with the names of a few ADMs he had dealt with back in the day in Correctional Services; I came up with one name, Louis Huneault -- one of the smartest, toughest DMs I ever had the pleasure of working with. 

To run that mess, you have to be tough and smart -- a hard combination to find.