No, he’s golfing.”įor their study, “Fore! An analysis of CEO shirking,” the economists, Lee Biggerstaff, David Cicero and Andy Puckett, looked at the golfing habits of more than 350 CEOs of S&P 1500 companies between 20 who maintained a handicap with the United States Golf Association.
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You would think he would be at the office, learning how to be president, reading intelligence briefings, draining the swamp. “Out of President Donald Trump’s first four months in office, he visited his own golf courses 25 times,” Gladwell said. He’s also has maintained a CEO’s golfing habits, Gladwell said. Trump isn’t a CEO anymore, but he boasted on the campaign trail that he wanted to run the federal government like a CEO. Gladwell cites a study from three economists who compiled data, including from the United States Golf Association, to show that CEOs who play too much golf are associated with firms that have lower operating performance and less value. That was the case in the podcast episode titled “A Good Walk Spoiled,” in which he cited data that looks at how powerful rich men in America really like to play golf but why too much golf can be bad for the businesses or other entities they run. Gladwell is famous for unearthing overlooked academic research to offer surprising insights into how people in modern societies think and behave. Gladwell, the best-selling author of “The Tipping Point,” “Blink,” and “Outliers,” raised this concern on the Season 2 premiere of his popular podcast “Revisionist History.” Author Malcolm Gladwell (.) Not only have Trump’s golf habits prompted critics to call him entitled, uncommitted to his job or just plain lazy, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell recently surmised that Trump has a golf “addiction” and suggested this obsession is all-consuming enough to potentially undermine his effectiveness as a leader and to therefore be harmful to the country. While the White House won’t say if and when Trump plays golf during his visits - usually claiming he’s also working or having high-level meetings - the TrumpGolfCount site has uncovered evidence to suggest Trump has golfed on at least 40 percent of these golf club visits, and racked up a cost of more than $55 million to US taxpayers. 20, Trump has jetted off on Air Force One to his golf properties in New Jersey, northern Virginia or Florida 43 times, according to an NBC News count. President Donald Trump arrives in Morristown, New Jersey Friday with grandchildren Arabella Kushner and Joseph Kushner. Cartoons: Donald Trump’s crazy White Houseīut President Donald Trump’s 17-day getaway to his New Jersey golf property, which started Friday, is facing an unusual level of scrutiny for a number of reasons, mostly because the 71-year-old former real estate mogul has already spent a lot of his time in office playing golf.
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