Amtak Continues to Burn Options

[ICGsteve]

MICRO, N.C. -- An Amtrak train engine caught fire as it traveled through Johnston County Saturday.

NBC TV

JEEZ, is it too much to ask of Amtrak for them to keep their locomotives in a good enough state of repair that they don't keep burning-up while on the road??? Apparently it is.

This post has been edited by ICGsteve: Aug 26 2007, 11:12 AM

[ICGsteve]

You speak truth JIS, throwing money at Amtrak would make running Amtrak easier and make Amtrak better, and if you take offense to words "throwing money" please remember that I am the one who thinks that Amtrak should be funded at around $5 billion a year. However, at the end of the day organizational leadership is responsible for establishing and maintaining the culture with-in the organization, and for morale with-in the organization. Lack of money is an obstacle for the leadership to overcome while putting the culture and morale to rights, but it does not doom the project which is why I say that problems caused by a cancerous culture and/or poor morale are not problems caused by lack of money. It has always been easier for Amtrak leaders to blame money problems caused at the political level for culture and morale problems with-in Amtrak (no doubt even to themselves), because when they believe this then they are off the hook and don't need to fix the problems. Several Amtrak CEO's in a row have ditched their duties to look after the well being of Amtrak as an organization, they have said and thought that it is Washington's fault, and washed their hands of the stink. I wish that someone would hold Gunn's and Warrington's toes to the fires, ask them why it had to be that Amtrak cultural and morale problems were caused by the political leaders when I venture to say that every Poly/sci expert will point out that adversity is one of the best tools for building culture and cohesion with-in a group. Leader after leader all through history has created adversaries for the sole purpose of building up their organization, society, group. Anti Amtrak Presidents and care not Congress's should have been a tool for the strengthening of Amtrak as an organization, they are not the reason Amtrak culture and morale sucks. The culture and morale suck because a series of Amtrak CEO's have not done their jobs.


For whom ever accused me of always bashing Amtrak: I have said that in my opinion all signs are that Klummant gets it and is trying to fix the underling problems that have hobbled Amtrak for nearly two decades now.

Note: multiple language mistakes have been fixed...I was in a rush when I originally posted.

This post has been edited by ICGsteve: Sep 2 2007, 08:54 PM