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What They're Not Telling about New Orleans Durable Link to this BLOG
It's a Leadership Crisis, Stupid

When the Governors and even President ("The relief work is unacceptable") engage in blame game, to evade their own responsibility in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, I am reminded of Edwards Deming, the American responsible for Japanese industrial renaissance, who used to say "Every Crisis is a Problem of Leadership".

What They Aren't Telling about New Orleans

  • That many people arranged and attended "Hurricane Parties" instead of taking safety precautions
  • Everybody was told to evacuate as in "Load your SUV and check into a Hotel in a neighboring State", without actual understanding of the problem that many in New Orleans were tourists without transportation or poor people without cars. And how are people in hospitals and nursing homes supposed to evacuate?
  • If you see the TV coverage, it is obvious that most of the victims as black, so are the looters. Racial angles to a natural disaster, anyone? Racial angles to the relief operation, anyone?
  • Numerous occasions, looting by victims was allowed as an incentive to "keep quiet", because the supplies were in short supply
  • Due to the automated way the utility and credit card bills are processed, all those bills are being sent to non-existing addresses, and soon all those victims' phones and cards won't work anymore because "last statement was not paid".
  • Families with extra rooms in their homes are afraid to host the families who have lost their homes for fear of safety, and lack of "trust factor". See racial angle from above.

(Comments Disabled for Now. Sorry!)First Written: Friday, September 2, 2005
Last Modified: 9/2/2005 9:13:07 PM

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