Barack Obama & Sony versus Kim Jong-un

Obama shows Sony what leadership and management is about.

It’s good to see that the US president has intervened in the Sony hacking debacle and that the idiotic bully-boy in North Korea won’t get his way. Wonderful that free speech and free expression in being upheld in the Western world. It’s a fine example to citizens of despotic regimes everywhere: strive for freedom hard enough and you’ll get it, then elect the right people and you’ll keep it.

The IS fanatics who are rampaging almost unhindered around Syria and Iraq were surely delirious with pleasure when it seemed that the nutty Kim Jong-un could force Sony to withdraw their movie. Not only did it enforce their current use of social media to recruit (thousands of young European born people have gone to fight with them) and spread their message of terror but was also a sure sign that cyber-terror was the way forward.    

Belly up and tail curled: a sight bullies love to see.  

What’s really sad about this, though, is that Barack Obama had to intercede. How dreadful that Sony was so willing to put tail between legs and let Kim Jong-un and his Alice-in-Wonderland regime have their way.

It’s the best example, if ever there was one, of where heightened intelligence and success in the commercial world doesn’t always make a person fit for community leadership. 

Imagine if the leaders of the free world had the personalities and psychological structures that the executives and management of Sony seem to have. It would result in two-bit despots, tyrants and fanatics stomping all over us.