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Will rise and fall on the quality of his advisers: the keys to Bennett's success
If indeed the Prime Minister is done, the right-wing chairman will come to the post with important tools and on the other hand with weights around his neck.
As with Ariel Sharon, the appointment of the chief of staff to work alongside Bennett will have the most dramatic effect on his performance: he will have to stand up to him as an equal, and know how to throw the truth at him.
The full column in Maariv
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Ariel Sharon
Uri Shani
Marit Danon
Ben Mercury
Friday, 11 June 2021, 12:57
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If he does become Israel's 13th prime minister, Naftali Bennett will make history. He will be the first dome-wearing prime minister ever. We should pray that he will be more successful than the first chief of staff who came from the Air Force. Bennett comes to the position equipped with quite a few important tools, but there are also quite a few weights hanging around his neck. He is talented, decent, stately, hardworking and creative. Maybe too creative. But insists on thinking outside the box even when it's too dangerous, he will rise and fall on conduct, and especially on the quality of manpower and the level of counseling he will organize for himself.
Bennett has a track record of bringing good people to his environment. Throughout my years in the press, I have always focused on examining the leader's work environment, as a key factor in his chances of success. The quality of the advice, the success in sealing the aquarium from background noise and adverse effects, the industrial quiet required to make important decisions, all these are the keys to success. In the case of the government that is due to swear allegiance on Sunday, the interpersonal relationships of its leaders will also determine its fate and ours. Will the Torch-Bennett Alliance, which has already proven itself in the past, soar to new heights? Will Avigdor Lieberman become a team player? Will Gideon Saar connect with Bennett and Lapid? Will the left wing know how to swallow his honor and dreams often enough not to step on unnecessary mines?
The most dramatic and most directly influential appointment to the post of prime minister is the chief of staff.
Much more than the CEO, the political advisor or the political advisor. The head of the faculty is the owner of the aquarium. He is the one according to whom he will decide anything.
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A record of bringing good people to his environment.
Bennett (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)
Examples of good faculty leaders: Uri Shani with Ariel Sharon, Dr. Yoram Turbovich with Ehud Olmert. Shani, who went a very long way with Sharon (which began on the West Bank of the canal during the Yom Kippur War), was one of the only ones who could say "no" to the old general. This period was characterized by exemplary, professional and precise conduct.
The qualities required in advance of a good staff are, first and foremost, his ability to stand up to the boss as equal to equal, and to slap the truth in him. Proven management skills, political / political experience, life wisdom and stray cats are also required. The head of staff should also be particularly charismatic, such a dominant personality that leaves a mark. A person who, when he enters a room, is quiet. I have no idea if Bennett has one of these in his lap. His very close advisor, Tal Gan-Zvi, is a talented, loyal and worthy guy, albeit a young one. I am reluctant to give Bennett specific advice on this subject.
We'll end with that story about Marit Danon. Before entering the Prime Minister's Office, Shani and Sharon were scheduled for a conversation. Shani realized from Sharon that he intended to bring his mythological secretary, who accompanied him on his political adventures, to also be his close secretary in the Prime Minister's Office. Shani objected. He thought that Marit Danon, the mythical secretary of four or five prime ministers, would remain in charge of the aquarium.
Uri Shani knew how to say "no" to the old general.
Sharon (Photo: Government Press Office, Moshe Milner)
Sharon tried to resist.
Shani insisted.
"Have you ever flown a jumbo jet?" He asked Sharon.
"No," Sharon admitted.
"Neither do I," Shani told him. "We did not do it. Marit did. She has been doing it for 20 years."
Sharon relented.
Eventually, Danon became near modern day.
Her command of languages, her personal familiarity with the corridors of power in most of the world's important countries and her mastery of the conduct of a leader in the global world made her vital in the management of the country during the Sharon era (and also of all the prime ministers before him).
Naftali Bennett will have to find the equivalents of all these in the Chikim bureau in Jerusalem, if he does become the 13th prime minister of Israel on Sunday.
Farewell to Benjamin Netanyahu will be held here only when he leaves.
In the meantime, we will be content with one promise: on Sunday, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid will be sworn in as prime minister and deputy prime minister, Gideon Saar as justice minister, Avigdor Lieberman as finance minister, Bnei Gantz as defense minister, Merav Michaeli as transport minister and Nitzan Horowitz as health minister.
I have no doubt that the next day, Monday morning, the sun will rise in the east at exactly the appointed time and set in the west in the evening.
One should pray that with it will also sink the hatred and disgust that have settled here in recent years.
We deserve something else.
The full column this morning in Maariv
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